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Traveling personal cloud options? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My pixel phone has meager storage. Could I use an old phone with bountiful SD space to serve up media via Bluetooth?

Any ideas if this would work practically speaking?

Edit: Looking for a functional equivalent of on-device storage space, i.e., for offline media consumption

USB phone jack is often used for power, so it's unlikely available for OTG storage

Battery life in the server phone should be ok since it will be running in airplane mode with only Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth, and display off mostly

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Get a NAS for home, and VPN in as needed. Store all your media on the NAS, and also use it as a phone backup target.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Downside might be that this requires a good internet connection, which depending on where OP travels might not always be available.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

This. Tailscale is a VPN solution for this that's free for personal use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks but looking for offline solutions

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Bluetooth is probably too slow for what you want, but you could use your old phone as a Wifi hotspot and even install various server software on it via Termux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

GL.iNet's travel routers have a USB port and support plugging in a EHDD to share over the network they create.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Pretty sure some even have an SD card slot too so even less weight to carry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Get MaterialFiles and turn on sftp server to share all your files via network.

Then same network whether its hotspot or home WiFi.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you're looking for something you can carry about and use to store data on, why not just a USB-C thumb drive or external SSD?

Edit; this is intended for photographers, but you can get external SSDs that create their own WiFi network so you can transfer files wiressly to and from them: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/portable-drives/wd-my-passport-wireless-ssd?sku=WDBAMJ2500AGY-EESN

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Some travel routers have a USB socket for media.

They're usually used to make connecting to hotel Wi-Fi easier (you connect your devices to its ssid, then connect to its admin page and connect it to the wifi, or just plug it in to the lan).

Tp-link ac750, for example

https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/340/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's a neat idea of using an extra phone as a file server. I've only thought of phones as consumers, not providers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@BigMikeInAustin @Pretzilla Only thing to worry about is the battery of the phone if its being left on 24/7

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I would have to find a way to keep them on without needing a battery inserted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Maybe be more specific?

For traveling I would suggest a laptop to behave as a server but the IP address changes a lot when traveling.

I'd personally opt for something hosted at home if possible like Nextcloud and Jellyfin with static IP and port forwarding to access on the go.

Tbh though, if you just want storage on the go buying a portable 1-4TB drive that connects via USB-C is enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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IP Internet Protocol
NAS Network-Attached Storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
VPN Virtual Private Network

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Just saw the edit and if you don't want to go the router route + LAN for some reason guess another option would be a ucb c dock that allows power pass through. I have an anker one that I use on occasion and recommend it. You can then either get an external drive or a SD card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This seems a bit impractical. 2 phones to keep charged and manage.

Depending in your use case can't you just get some external USB storage?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Does it have support for microSD cards?