cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/24568506

Hi!

I’m supplying a small camp I’m participating in with Internet/Wifi, so I built an x86 OpenWRT router with an LTE modem… it took forever, but now it’s working. (camp is quite outback for open wifi routers) So now I thought: What if we could share files for… anything easily via the router without setting up SAMBA on their phones or whatever.

So I thought of services like Sharedrop, or drop.lol, or litterbox.moe or pastebin or whatever. And that it would be super convenient to fileshare without the Internet or whatever.

There are a lot of self-hosted options available but which ones run on that 8GB OpenWRT router I set up. (Should be easy - that’s a powerhouse for writeaple drive space in a router.

So: what’s the best idea here? I can set up a http server, but I guess an ftp server would work as well. Althoug it would be perfect if it worked with phones and ad-hoc filesharing (download and upload, preferably with QR-code generation).

I know stuff like magic wormhole or localsend or warp, but all of those are a bit of a hassle for noobs to setup (i.e.: opening a firewall, which you shouldn’t do if you don’t know what you’re doing). That’s why I was thinking: hosted in the router.

You got any ideas what I can run on my potato of a server/beefcake of a router?

  • doodlediedoo@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    If I’m not mistaken airdrop and quickshare should be your go-to for iphones/android devices within their ecosystem. Localsend can fill in the gaps and as far as I remember just requires the app to be installed, no port forwarding required.

    Hosting a fileserver depends on a bit more than just RAM, but you can just try out some solutions (Nextcloud comes to mind besides the things you already mentioned), and see what runs best on your hardware.