Pi-hole has a built in file transfer system, and I've been wanting to setup one, but which one do I choose for easy ftp, set that up. Why not just use the teleporter feature to upload pictures to my pc?
How can I open up access to other file formats? I'd like to upload a picture from my phone for a system-wide wallpaper for grub, plymouth and login / desktop wallpaper.
Thank you.
Teleporter is literally a wrapper around the tar linux utility.
Wow, I thought that was just for archives. Oh for the .tar.gz. But my point is I can upload files to the system. Would it be possible to upload non tar.gz files to my computer using pi-holes "upload" function?
I have a feeling that I'm missing something here but on the face of the question the answer is no.
No.
Teleporter only uploads one kind of file: a teleporter archive (using tar.gz file format, with specific content).
After the upload the file is read to import pi-hole's configuration.
You can't upload other file formats. You can't change the destination.
Teleporter is not a file transfer system.
I use an iPhone and iMac; on those you can use AirDrop. For non-AirDrop I just email the pic to myself from my phone and grab it from Gmail on my desktop. Fine for wallpaper, probably not great for private images.
The other way around I've also used Magic-Wormhole to send stuff to a friend in real time, it's really useful.
For getting stuff off the Linux/Mac desktop to another phone/desktop on the same network you can transfer using the webserver in python. Never use this for any public facing web server; only for moving stuff across your own network.
Run the command below and then go to its IP in a browser on the other computer. Or use curl. Ctrl-c to kill it when done. If the port would conflict (eg running it on Pi-hole) use a different port number. May need sudo.
python3 -m http.server 80
This is great. I did a repo search for "ftp" tried a couple and it's just not this simple. Thank you. I'll try this soon.
Hey, thank you for this. It took me HOURS to understand the 0.0.0.0 and I went into the server.py file and change the
self.socket.bind(self.server_address)
TypeError: bind(): AF_INET address must be tuple, not str
from anything other than
server_address
to something like 192.168.1.70, 8000
etc, getting nowhere, because it's not setup like that. It has to stay
server_address
and luckily I found that online, and it's not easy to find that very specific line in the config file. Next time I'll make a backup
Anyway, I don't think this is what I want. How do I push files TO this address, instead of download from it
If you're wondering, no, I do not have a data cable, and also I'm trying to avoid "the cloud" for basic stuff like this. Sure I COULD send it to "the cloud" and pull it down again, but that's just no fun, and I have both of the computers in front of me, why should this leave my network? And yes, I'm still trying to figure this out.
So I got it! I started a tcp server on another device with some linux tools for mobile devices. I found the command to a small tool that does the same thing as the python server and it doesn't need as much storage. I also need to use this to backup my phone and reset it. It has odd issues that i havem't had since the day I started using it, so a reset it will be.