Anyone has a fool proof method? Preferably that does not involve third party apps, or a Foss one.

PS at home I use mixplorer over my home WiFi, but on the go WiFi direct would be useful. I use a Samsung smartphone and lenovo tablet, both on android 14. I can easily connect them, but I never see any WiFi direct option in the share menu (nor Samsung’s quickshare)

EDIT: Enabling Quickshare on both devices then the quickshare icon shows up in the share menu.

Although:

  • it asks to deactivate WiFi direct (as Markaos says below, probably so it can decide the best connection type, and probably active WiFi direct on demand)

  • it relies on the contacts of the Google account. As I use a dummy and different gmail on both, and Foss apps for contacts, the only way to share is to “allow sharing with everyone for 10 minutes”

So my question remains as to how to use Wi-Fi direct well…directly.

  • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    I tried this between the Samsung and my Debian laptop and none ever recognised the other. Also quite sure it relies on a local network?

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      3 months ago

      If you use a free VPN like Proton you’ll need to disconnect from it to be able to see devices on LAN.

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      3 months ago

      Not sure if it helps but i fixed this problem by connecting both devices using a cable. Works like a charm now, even over network

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          3 months ago

          Your opinion is moot, WiFi direct is a network without an intermediary (router/modem) for peer to peer applications. KDE Connect will work or any other network filesharing application

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      3 months ago

      Even though KDE Connect came with Endeavour OS (arch BTW) I had to allow some firewall settings.