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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: 0s | source
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sombragris ◴[13 Oct 25 19:11 UTC] No.45572177[source]▶
At least in my use case (as link between Android devices and both Linux/Win PCs) KDE Connect is a real killer app. It enabled seamless integration and saved me lots of hassle and time. It really should get more exposure.

I see reports that it doesn't work. These are mostly for distros where Plasma is either rather old or taking a backseat after other environment (usually Gnome). I'm having great results with the latest Plasma 6 on Slackware-current and also in a standard Windows 11 environment.

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Zardoz84 ◴[22 Oct 25 08:46 UTC] No.45666378[source]▶
I has been using KDE connect for years, including Plasma 5 before I updated to Debian 13 .

The only two issue that I found, it's that not works on the wifi network of my work office. Something there must be blocking it. And that sometimes gets confused when you have multiple videos open on the browser and shows the wrong video on the multimedia controls.

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1. jeroenhd ◴[22 Oct 25 09:06 UTC] No.45666514[source]▶
FWIW, KDE Connect lets you select what media to control when there are multiple options.

The broken WiFi probably has something to prevent broadcast from working. It's not uncommon for some enterprise setups as a trickle of broadcast traffic can really mess with WiFi efficiency. You can work around it by manually specifying the IP addresses of the devices you wish to connect if those are static-ish.