Phone Link is Microsoft’s late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.
This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.
KDE Connect also runs on more operating systems. It’s worth mentioning to friends who run Windows.
You can even connect e.g. Android devices with each other! No PC/laptop needed!
Ahh this one I didn’t know! Awesome thanks!
This feature is epic. Being able to save a file to my phone from my tablet or vice versa is fantastic.
I was not aware that KDE Connect ran on Windows! This is great to hear for recommendations. Thanks for spreading awareness!
It works on all platforms, I work on mobile apps so I have quite a few Androids and iPhones, as well as a linux laptop and a Mac mini. It works seamlessly between all of those.
Is there a port for M Macs? I’m missing it so much now that I don’t have Linux on the laptop.
What’s preventing you from installing Asahi Linux?
Interesting that they bothered to make this considering KDE Connect already works on Windows
I’m sure it might stop working soon enough. For your safety.
The only unique (I think?) thing about phone link is that it enables you to use your Android phone camera as a webcam, which can be handy if you don’t have a quality webcam. I think its only in the beta version though.
Audio and video sharing would be really handy. I wonder if KDE connect might do this at some point
I’m not sure if this is a Pixel feature or if its available across all of Android, but there is an option when you connect over USB to connect your phone as a webcam - but that is of course tethered instead of being wireless.
With phone link I have tested the beta version and you can use your phone camera wirelessly after initial setup. At least I was able to do this using a Redmi Note 9s without any obvious issues, apart from the privacy concerns noted elsewhere.
I wonder if KDE connect could leverage the way Syncthing does device discovery and pairing
It works across networks, with no configuration
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I’ll just leave this here:
Phone link is SHIT, it only works sometimes and never when ya need it to
so exactly like kde connect then
@kde
#kdeconnect is really awesome. The only negative point is that it won’t allow you to send multiple files simultaneously. We have to send each file separately. If possible, please provide it soon.
@kde@lemmy.kde.socialThat’s my problem with KDE. Probably the one most useful feature it could implement, it doesn’t have.
This is not new. Has been there for a while
It’s been there for years, I think at least since before 11 was released…
It also doesn’t work properly.
Number one reason right here.
I have gotten Your Phone to work maybe a half a dozen times. KDE Connect just works, full stop.
I have had nothing but problems with kde connect for years
@kde@floss.social why isn’t it called KDE Konnect instead of Connect?
Does KDE connect actually work with SMS on Windows now? Last time I used it, I couldn’t text people, only reply using the notification if they texted me and I happened to click on it quickly enough. Pretty useless.
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Thanks, you have saved me the time of trying it again.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Which, funny enough, is Precisely Why I run KDE Connect.
Also, I don’t let my androids fraternize with Windows machines, I’d have to boil them all later because, ew.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
KDE connect es ya un buque insignia de la conectividad para los amantes del #softwarelibre y si no es por KDE ni sabríamos que Gates ha sacado una nueva basura al mercado.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
On one hand, *lame!!* Die in a fire, copycats
on the other hand, *cool!* it’s not my imagination that kdeconnect is the best phone app ever. thank you to all involved!! ❤️
Based.
And yes, KDE Connect ftw
No screen mirroring though 😕
Maybe scrcpy is the tool for you then.
