I found that the resilio mobile app would use up a lot of battery at night (sometimes about 10% an hour).

Syncthing was better for that, but would sometimes just stop updating on a phone. I would check and it would have not been syncing for weeks and be signed out of the web UI.

I should add that I do use it for backups, it’s a great program, but I’ve only ever used it for one-way scheduled syncs.

I’ve sometimes found that it just stops syncing on one phone. And I did turn off battery management.

I need something that’s reliable.

I use resilio, but recently it used 20% battery in 6 hours overnight, when nothing needed syncing.

Is there any way for it to sync from desktop to Android immediately when a file changes on the PC?

It’s a watering can’t.

That sounds worth investigating, thanks! Amcrest needs an account for notifications afaik, but the Pro cameras can work just on a local network.

The app for them is awful. Then they made a new version that is awful in slightly different ways, so I’m interested in new options.

It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?

I tested some more and can’t get it to work any more. I found a post saying it worked in 1.5.2 so maybe something broke in newer versions.

You need to enable Bluetooth as a method of connection in the app settings (and can turn off wifi and data there).

The phones can be in airplane mode but with Bluetooth turned back on (as you would to use earbuds).

I don’t recall pairing the phones, but there is a “connect via Bluetooth” option on each chat that might be doing that automatically.

You link accounts to each other by scanning qr codes.

It does have a group chat but I haven’t used it, so I don’t know if that works with Bluetooth alone.

I just tried testing this with an old phone of mine, but can’t get it to work right now (maybe because it has Graphene os?), but I have actually used it on flights in the past.

I’ve used it to message someone while on a flight.

I have it add a backup suffix based on the date. It moves changed and deleted files to another directory adding the date to the filename.

It can also do hard-link copied so that you can have multiple full directory trees to avoid all that duplication.

No file deltas or compression, but it does mean that you can access the backups directly.

I’m referring to Amcrest Pro cameras, btw. They are the ones that let you configure them to be independent of their cloud service, write to a NAS, etc.

I’m just testing out thingino, but it’s currently lacking features compared to amcrest.

There’s no option to only save video when events trigger, so it fills the card quickly.

And I can’t get the tinyCam app to access recorded files, so I have to use the web-based file browser.

But then Amcrest’s apps (both old and new) have do many faults and glitchy behavior.

Lots of features, but not simple and a big learning curve is you don’t already is emacs.

I don’t think that there’s a way for it to do drag and drop, either, although it’s emacs, so who knows?

There are some good comments in this discussion

https://lemmy.world/post/35820333

Rsync can rename/move target changed or gone from the source.

I use those options so that I get a separate ‘archive’ dir next to my backup target, with old versions of files.

It’s useful for loose collections such as photos.

I use rsync.net

It’s not the lowest price, but I like the flexibility of access.

For instance, I was able to run rclone on their servers to do a direct copy from OneDrive to rsync.net, 400Gb without having to go through my connection.

I can mount backups with sshfs if I want to, including the daily zfs snapshots.

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Oh, and Harold Halibut. It’s stop-motion and heavy on character interaction, with a story that keeps the action mild (on a level with a kid’s TV show). A very calm protagonist. Aside from the visual style, all those things are reasons that it got mixed reviews, but could fit what you want.

I had trouble with very long loading times on the deck sometimes, but it’s a slow-paced game, so I didn’t even mind too much.

I’ve only played the demo, but Caravan SandWitch has a cozy vibe and seems very chill.