KDE Connect

stefwe · 15 Oct 2017, 15:24

I'd love to see a client for ubuntu phone.

On my laptop i can see information(battery, sms, incoming calls or messages) from my android device.

Also file transfer over wifi is simple.

guru · 15 Oct 2017, 15:31

I'd love to see a client for ubuntu phone.

On my laptop i can see information(battery, sms, incoming calls or messages) from my android device.

Also file transfer over wifi is simple.

Can you please tell more about this KDE app? Thanks

stefwe · 15 Oct 2017, 15:39

Nop, there are a lot of videos on youtube.

You need to install the program on your device(phone&pc).
On the desktop pc you get a icon in the status bar. Here you can open the folder structer from the phone or you can see battery status.
Is there a incoming call you see a pop up on the desktop. If you don't find your device, you can start a "ping"
After that your mobile phone is making beep beep beep

demokrit · 15 Oct 2017, 19:54

@guru KDEconnect is an extremely cool app to bridge all your devices. Here is the github repo and KDE community wiki entry. In just a few words:

Link your PCs, Smartphones, Laptops via Wifi or Bluetooth
Share content (send files, share clipboard) encrypted and with nautilus (filemanager) support
Some nifty features for the smartphone:
- Find my phone (click on desktop and phone will ring)
- See notifcations, take calls, answer on messager on desktop
- Send CLI commands/touchscreen/keyboard events to desktop
- See phone status (battery) on desktop

Sorry for redundancy, Stefan already mentioned a few of these, i'm just a big fan of this app and would love to see it on UT

stefwe · 16 Oct 2017, 04:05

@demokrit: Your description is much better, thanks for this...

SweDennis · 16 Oct 2017, 15:35

Yeah! KDE Connect i very useful - Perfect when we can't connect our phone to an external monitor.

doniks · 16 Oct 2017, 17:41

Someone could try to apt install it. It can be paired from the command line

SweDennis · 17 Oct 2017, 12:20

Does KDE Connect (pc version) support ARM then...??

guru · 17 Oct 2017, 15:52

@SweDennis As I understand the Wiki, there is some KDE plasma application to be installed or compiled from sources (as I do in FreeBSD) and some app for Android on arm and some protocol between the two.

doniks · 17 Oct 2017, 17:19

apt install DOES offer it so I guess it has at least been COMPILED for arm. It wants to pull in some 250 mb of dependencies though I didn't try that. Would have to make some space for it first.

stefwe · 17 Oct 2017, 19:25

good idea to check apt. it's not normal in my android life to install with apt

i will try to install this at the weekend and try to pair the device with my desktop

Vehi_MV · 22 Jan 2018, 08:40

@einstein212
Hi. Have you been able to connect your phone with kdeconnect?

I would like to try, but apt-get wants to install alot of kde packages.
No problem if it works.

stefwe · 22 Jan 2018, 10:25

@vehi_mv I don't try to install because of the same reason you write sorry i don't know if it works or not.

poVoq · 26 Oct 2019, 13:44

There is a new version for this for SailfishOS:
https://openrepos.net/content/r1tschy/sailfish-connect
https://github.com/R1tschY/harbour-sailfishconnect

I hope this can be ported?

SSC · 5 Jul 2022, 02:34

Has there been any update on this? I do not see the KDE connect software in the OpenStore

L-00862 · 1 Sept 2022, 06:40

KDE Connect is a multi-platform application developed by KDE, which facilitates wireless communications and data transfer between devices over local networks. KDE Connect is available in the repositories of many Linux Distributions and F-Droid, Google Play Store for Android