Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-14 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:47:30AM +0200, Michael wrote: Not bluetooth any reason it has to be bluetooth? An app your kids will find easy to use, and intuitive, is AirDroid. Has a client for Chrome/Chromium and of course one for the Android Phone side. Doesn't require cable. Use it all the time in

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 14 Sep 2015 at 00:47, Michael wrote: > Eric, > > I'm on the road now and only occasionally online. > >> FYI, gphotofs and gthumb, tools that depend on gphoto2, work very well >> for a cable connection with Android phones, at least for photos. > > But it definitely has to work for video a

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-13 Thread Michael
Eric, I'm on the road now and only occasionally online. > FYI, gphotofs and gthumb, tools that depend on gphoto2, work very well > for a cable connection with Android phones, at least for photos. But it definitely has to work for video and music files too, and i doubt gphoto will deal with them

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-09 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 7 Sep 2015 at 16:28, Michael wrote: > but they wont use a cable connection, which, anyway, did not work on > linux for me so far. FYI, gphotofs and gthumb, tools that depend on gphoto2, work very well for a cable connection with Android phones, at least for photos. > But i won't try t

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Uhm, i am really not looking for a cloud storage / cloud desktop solution ... as fascinating as it is - but what i am looking for, need work w/o internet access.

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Ranf, Thank you ! > Have look at the Android-App AirDroid. You access the phone over Wifi from a > browser on the desktop. Can't test this right now. Just let me ask beforehand, what kind of browser ? A specific AirDroid browser, or just something like Firefox ? Can i transfer multiple file

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Ranf
Michael schrieb > Well, the situation is, these kids have easily 2 - 3 Gigabytes of media files > (including many own video clips each usually between 50 - 100 Mbyte) on > their smartphones which i would like them - for various reasons - backup to > their laptops; but they wont use

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/7/15, Michael wrote: > Cindy, > > Many thanks ! > > Just for the records, i first tired 'blueberry' but it diint work ... > esepcially when downloadig files from the smartphone, it disconnects > immediately. > > So i tried your suggestion blueman (which also pulls in the 'bluez' backend > stu

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Well, the situation is, these kids have easily 2 - 3 Gigabytes of media files (including many own video clips each usually between 50 - 100 Mbyte) on their smartphones which i would like them - for various reasons - backup to their laptops; but they wont use a cable connection, which, anyway, d

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Also, right now (transferring photos from android to laptop) i've got a transfer rate of 200 Bytes (yes) per second ... which is kind of amazing. It means downloading 100 photos will take forever. Is that normal ?? I remember transferring files from android <-> android much faster.

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Cindy, Many thanks ! Just for the records, i first tired 'blueberry' but it diint work ... esepcially when downloadig files from the smartphone, it disconnects immediately. So i tried your suggestion blueman (which also pulls in the 'bluez' backend stuff) and yes, it works. But somehow it's i

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/7/15, Michael wrote: > Like, download photos from the phone to the computer, upload music files to > the smartphone. One Linux bluetooth manager for all kind of files, talking > to the android bluetooth manager. Is that possible ? I just tried "apt-cache search bluetooth manager" (via term

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Like, download photos from the phone to the computer, upload music files to the smartphone. One Linux bluetooth manager for all kind of files, talking to the android bluetooth manager. Is that possible ?

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Michael
Matus, It's about up- / downloading music and photos. It should be usable for kids, so an easy graphical frontend is required. Just as easy as it works with android <-> android. > On 06.09.15 15:16, Michael wrote: > >Is there a bluetooth manager for exchange data with Android smartphones, > >

Re: Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.09.15 15:16, Michael wrote: Is there a bluetooth manager for exchange data with Android smartphones, which is approxmiately as easy to use as the Android side (meaning usable even for kids) ? I think any bluetooth application should be able to communicate with android phones. The question

Bluetooth manager for connecting to Android

2015-09-06 Thread Michael
Well, guess what i'm asking here :) Is there a bluetooth manager for exchange data with Android smartphones, which is approxmiately as easy to use as the Android side (meaning usable even for kids) ?