So I use a synology filer at home (two, actually), and replicate data using their cloud sync app on there on my androids.  I do this mostly for books as I add new things I queue to read.  At some point I intend to do the same for music.  I do this on my local lan right now, so when it *can* hit the synology, it syncs and adds new stuff from my /books dir.

I mentioned ZeroTier before here for personal vpn/cloud, I use this as well to access my synology filer (and everything else at home) running a ZT client (props for them offering a synology package!) remotely from my phone or whatever, on cell or wifi anywhere.  I enable the ZT network on phone/tablet, use solidexplorer on android to access a cifs share remotely over encrypted sdwan/vpn to my synology, and do my business copying what I want to the phone as if local.  I use this to grab movies and stuff when on the road from my home share, books, music, work client data, whatever.  I could setup sync replication over it too, but I only use zerotier on wifi or on-demand otherwise.

You don't always have to carry everything with you, just have to bring the private cloud/home network to your devices securely, and ZT is great for that.  I'm not comfortable pushing my media over to google/box/dropbox/etc either, particularly sensitive work data, so I like ZeroTier for this back to my home filer(s), and you can do so only when on wifi so not burning your mobile data.

-mb


On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 3:44 PM David Schwartz <newsletters@thetoolwiz.com> wrote:
I’ve got three mobile devices (plus my phone) with a 4th on the way, and I use them for different things and depending on my mood. ;-)

I want to put the data on ONE DEVICE that could, preferably, fit in my pocket, and that would let me access the files on any of my other devices.

If there’s an app I can run on my Android phone and use it as a media server that doesn’t require it to be jailbroken, that would be ideal.

I’m not aware of anything like this for either Android or iOS that works on non-jailbroken devices.

Anybody know of an app that would do this?

-David Schwartz

On Nov 16, 2018, at 3:22 PM, Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> wrote:

why not just load it all on to your ipad?

at the end of the day you're going to want a bigger screen to view all the material and if you keep accessing it through different devices there won't be any way to know where you left off when you switch to another device.

tiny screens aren't really conducive to reading documents


On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 2:04 PM David Schwartz <newsletters@thetoolwiz.com wrote:
I recently purchased a course online, and I need to go through all of the materials. It’s hosted online, but is also available for download.

So I just downloaded a bunch of files. They’re a combination of audio (MP3), video (MP4), some PDF files, and slides (PPT/PPTX).

The total size exceeds my monthly data plan, and I don’t like having to stop and restart long videos when I have to take a break for some reason, because they invariably lose track of where they are and end up having to restart from the beginning.

I’d like to be able to load them onto a small pocket-sized device that runs as a simple media server so I can access them from whatever device I have handy, without having to worry about uploading them to each device. There are some WiFi thumb drives, but their batteries don’t last very long, and I’d like to be able to put stuff on MicroSD cards that I can swap in and out rather than doing the whole backup/restore thing to swap files.

There’s a ton of software available to run, but what hardware options are there?

Think something like a phone or tablet with a MicroSD slot, that lets me run some server software and act like a media server that I could connect to from my phone or iPad or other mobile devices. It should have enough battery to run for 6 hours or so without a recharge.

Any ideas?

-David Schwartz



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