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KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

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475 points snthd | 1 comments | 12 Oct 25 12:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.273s | source
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roshin ◴[13 Oct 25 13:02 UTC] No.45567872[source]▶
when it works it's amazing. but very often both my phone and laptop are connected to the same WiFi, yet kde connect can't see them. I can't figure out how to diagnose and solve that when it happens
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1. ValdikSS ◴[21 Oct 25 20:17 UTC] No.45661121[source]▶
The majority of desktop Wi-Fi cards/chipsets have buggy drivers that break mDNS discovery in one way or another.

To the point that I'd say that Wi-Fi drivers are the most offender in printer discovery problems, which also rely on mDNS.

Another issue that many mDNS applications, including KDE Connect, don't account on multi-interface setups and send respond to mDNS request using incorrect network interface: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507972 / https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507954