airmessage-web VS syncthing-android

What I do is have a Mac Mini acting as a server and run Airmessage on it, you can access your iMessages via a webpage on any device: https://web.airmessage.org/

If you have a mac in your house, you can install BlueBubbles on it and give yourself nearly full iMessage capabilities on any non-Apple device. AirMessage a a simpler but less featureful alternative. My wife and I have ours set up on a mac mini and can happily use any device we want without facing the ire of friends and family - as long as you add your email address instead of your phone number to conversations.

When I launched web.airmessage.org and signed in with MS Edge, it said "hey theres a windows app for this on the store, do you want to download it?" And I did, and its great! In my case both the web interface and the app show conversations that Im not sure how to delete, and yet they have been deleted on my iphone. They are spam texts

I use AirMessage for this. I installed the server app on an old iMac I have, and open a tab on my Windows computer pointed to web.airmessage.org

should I set this in web.airmessage.org ? i can't find Settings here. neither in AirMessage server.

Everything is working, except for one thing. I cannot seem to get AirMesssage For Web (web.airmessage.org) to work on my iPad and/or iPhone. What happens is that when I go to that URL, it loads the website with the "Sign In To Google" button. Sometimes when I click on the button, nothing happens. Sometimes when I click on the button, it brings up the Google Accounts chooser, but then when I click on the account that is connected to AirMessage, it just brings me back to the AirMessage For Web page with the "Sign In To Google" button again. It never loads up my iMessages and keeps me in a sign-in loop.

Why it's not flawless: Occasionally the Android app doesn't want to connect to the server for whatever reason, but in that case I just go to web.airmessage.org and text from there using my phone's web browser. It usually resolves itself in the app within a few minutes, Sometimes the app doesn't want to send/download pictures/videos as well. For that, I use the same workaround as before and just use the web text service. I have never had a situation where I wasn't able to get a message out through either the app or the website. I only have to manually fix the server maybe 2-5 times a year when the computer crashes or a power-outage occurs.

Way easier to just run it in a browser https://web.airmessage.org/

Hey guys! My web.airmessage.org is bugging out. it wont save any new messages, and when i refresh the page, it just reverts back to "yesterday morning". doesn't download any new messages.

I've got another one on topic of self-hosted file sharing:

- FileBrowser running in Docker (https://filebrowser.org/features)

- Syncthing running in another container (https://syncthing.net/)

Syncthing keeps the files on your PC, Mac, BSD systems updated, and FileBrowser can point to the share and supply a convenient web UI. It works for me, it's kind of like a local Dropbox-lite.

We use syncthing to share files between our machines. It avoids is having to use dropbox / OneDrive etc. You just choose a folder and it automatically syncs it in the background.

https://syncthing.net/

This very hn entries is bust contradicting your statement.

Also what about syncthing[1] (for recurrent/permanent sync) and croc[2] (for one time copies) ?

I have used both for a number of years already.

[1] https://syncthing.net/

[2] https://github.com/schollz/croc

I would use syncthing, which is open source at https://syncthing.net/.

After minimal setup, it just works(tm).

You have a normal directory in your filesystem, that is synced to the other peers (which you set up in the "minimal setup").

I have been using it for years, and it works well. It has no problems crossing os'es (i.e. windows -> linux, linux -> mac)

For windows I usually recommend https://github.com/canton7/SyncTrayzor, but vanilla syncthing works fine too (but don't try to mix them!)

Do consider Syncthing particularly if you are using Android. If using apple iOS you'd need the möbius sync client.

https://syncthing.net/

https://www.mobiussync.com/

One thing that it beats the cloud / centralized sync on is because the connection is direct between devices when the initial transfer is completed the file is completely there on the other device. With a cloud type of sync you do the transfer twice. I've seen stack up on large media or with the structure of cloud services pricing making it expensive depending on how your workflow is setup with inside and outside parties. For example, Dropbox deduction from all parties' storage limits not just the sharer.

You can also point Syncthing at a local sync of Dropbox or Google drive and then forward the files to other recipients from that for some purposes.

I think sync is a non-feature, as you can just ride on your existing solution.

For example, I use syncthing [1] with Obsidian to sync files off-cloud.

https://syncthing.net/

When I was 14 and just getting started, I used Notepad. Upgraded to Wordpad when I realized I loved putting italics in every other sentence, moved to Google Docs at around 25 when I started writing on my phone and wanted to sync with my computer, finally moved to Obsidian a few months ago (with Syncthing for syncing) when I decided I don't want to live in Google's house where they can burn my stuff down whenever they want.