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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