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‎src/site/notes/Laptop/3. Syncthing.md‎

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# Discussion
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# Installation
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- I opened "Software Manager" and searched for "Syncthing". Several items popped up, including "Syncthing" and "Syncthing Tray". The problem was that, as I looked at them, the "Tray" package (which puts an icon in the tray for management and informational purposes) is using a "Flatpack" that's over 1GB of download and 3.7GB on the disk! For just the tray. Syncthing itself was only 23MB on the disk. So, I went to the command line and looked for syncthing by typing `sudo apt search syncthing`. And sure enough, there's a package named syncthingtray, that only needs about 204MB. So I went the 'apt' method instead of the "Software Manager" method.
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- `sudo install syncthing syncthingtray -y`
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- ```bash
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sudo apt install syncthing syncthingtray -y
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- After everything finished installing, the Syncthing icons are under the "Internet" start menu.
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- Click on "Start Syncthing"
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- To ensure that Syncthing will start at boot, type:
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- ```bash
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systemctl --user enable syncthing.service
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```
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- Then click on "Syncthing Web UI"
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- The web UI comes up and asks to set a user name and password for the GUI. ~~While I'm the only person using the system, it's still a best practice to enable "[defense in depth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing)", so I set it up.~~
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- ~~In the box on the webpage entitled "GUI Authentication", click the "Settings" button at the bottom right~~

‎src/site/notes/Laptop/6. Password Manager.md‎

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‎src/site/notes/Laptop/8. Emby client.md‎

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- Download [Emby client](https://github.com/MediaBrowser/emby-theater-electron/releases/download/3.0.21/emby-theater-deb_3.0.21_amd64.deb)
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- ```bash
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install cec-utils libasound2 libatomic1 libc6 libegl1 libgcc-s1 libpulse0 libstdc++6
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```
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- I got an error about installing libasound2, but I already had sound installed so it worked anyway
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- ```bash
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sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/emby-theater-deb_3.0.21_amd64.deb
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```
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- Emby Theater now shows up under 'Sound and Video'

‎src/site/notes/Phone/4. Syncthing.md‎

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# Discussion
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This page depends upon [[Phone/2. VPN\|2. VPN]], because I'm not synchronizing my private data over the public Internet, even with TLS. I prefer defense-in-depth, so I'm putting all of my sync through a Wireguard tunnel.
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I'm using [Obtainium](https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium) (installed through the GrapheneOS App store) to install other apps when I can. One of them is [syncthing-fork](https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android).
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> [!info] As I'm writing this (2025-11-15), There's been a bit of weirdness in the github repo, so I'm not sure what's going on. I'm going to continue describing what I'm doing with this version of the android client. If the repo goes down permanently I'll change this page.
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# Initial Set up
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- Install the Syncthing app using Obtainium
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- Start the app
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- You'll see the Introduction page, press the "CONTINUE" button at the bottom right
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- Next is the "Storage Permission" page. Touch the "GRANT PERMISSION" button in the middle.
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- ~~I'm using [Storage Scopes](https://grapheneos.org/usage#storage-scopes) wherever possible. On this page I'm going to select a default, then I'll add folders for each app I'm syncing later.~~
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- ~~Select "Setup Storage Scopes"~~
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- ~~Toggle on "Enable Storage Scopes"~~
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- ~~Touch the "Add Folder" icon~~
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- ~~Touch "Create new folder"~~
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- ~~Type in "Sync" and touch "OK"~~
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- ~~Touch "Use this folder"~~
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- ~~Touch "Allow"~~
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- ~~Touch the left arrow button at the top-left of the screen~~
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- I tried to use Storage Scopes, but ran into issues with allowing the sync of my Obsidian folders. I ended up having to allow all permissions. I'm sure it's an issue of my knowledge, not either app, so I just need to figure it out.
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- Next is the "Location Permission" screen. I'm not allowing that for now, so touch the "CONTINUE" button at the bottom right.
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- I'm not sure what notifications it needs to send me, but I'm okay with that. Touch the "GRANT PERMISSION" button, then the "Allow" button.
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- I'm kinda paranoid, so I'm not allowing the "Anonymous Usage Reporting. I touch the "NO" button at the bottom of the page.
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# Connect to the Pi
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- I already had my laptop connected to my Pi via [[Self-Hosting/2. Raspberry Pi Initial Configuration#Enable VNC\|VNC]], so I fired up my TigerVNC Viewer and connected to the Pi. Then in the VNC windows, I opened up Syncthing on the Pi and clicked on the "Actions" drop-down at the top right corner and selected "Show ID". You'll have a QR Code pop up.
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- You'll need to open the VNC window anyway, to verify and allow the phone to connect to the Pi later on.
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- Then, on the phone, I opened Syncthing.
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- At the top of the page, click on the "DEVICES" tab
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- At the top right, you'll now see an icon that looks like a computer with a plus on the screen. touch that icon.
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- In the "Add Device" page that shows up, on the right you'll see a mini QR-code icon. Touch that icon.
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- You'll get a permissions request. I touched "Only this time".
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- You may have to touch the QR-code icon again.
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- Point the camera at the VNC viewer page with the QR code for the Pi. The Device ID will populate.
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- I named the device.
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- I went ahead and toggled on "Introducer". This will make it easier for me to configure the phone to accept other shared folders from the Pi when I share them from the laptop to the Pi. For instance, when I later set up either Bitwarden or KeePass.
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- I don't do "Auto Accept", because I will probably want to specify where I put the shared folders.
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- Click on the check mark at the top right of the page.
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- On the Pi VNC windows, in the Syncthing client, you'll now see an alert asking if you want to allow the phone to connect. Click the green "Add Device" button.
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- Change the name of the device if you wish, then click the "Save" button.
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- On the phone, the Pi device status will now change to "Up to Date".
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Why I'm using Obsidian
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# Synchronization
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Because my laptop is my primary note-taking platform (I touch-type on the laptop much faster than I can thumb-type on my phone), I [[Laptop/4. Note-taking#Synchronizing\|already sync'd my notes from the laptop to the Pi]]. Now I need to get them from the Pi to the phone. So, we actually start on the Pi.
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- Log into the VNC client for the Pi that we set up earlier.
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- Open the Syncthing client
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- Click on the "Obsidian" folder share we set up earlier
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- Click on the "Edit" button below it.
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- Click on the "Sharing" tab
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- Under the "Unshared Devices", find the phone you just added in [[Phone/4. Syncthing\|4. Syncthing]].
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- You should now see a notification on the phone: "Device 'Pi' wants to share folder 'Obsidian'"
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- Click the "Accept" button in the notification
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- You can now choose the Directory where you want to put the shared Obsidian folder. Make sure it's a place where Obsidian can get to it.
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- Note that Syncthing won't create the folder, only sync the contents. For instance, I'm syncing the folder 'Obsidian' from my laptop to my Pi. When I shared it to the phone, I had to create '/Documents/Obsidian' on the phone and then tell Syncthing to sync the 'Obsidian' folder there. Syncthing then put the ***contents*** of the 'Obsidian' folder (i.e. each of my vaults) into that folder.
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- Click on the cog icon to the right of the word "Directory"
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- I choose `/storage/emulated/0/Documents`, as that seemed the best place.
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- Click on the check icon at the top.
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- I change the "File Versioning" at the bottom from "TrashCan" to Simple, and I change Versions to 20. Just in case.
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‎src/site/notes/Self-Hosting/2. Raspberry Pi Initial Configuration.md‎

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# Resources
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I used https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-syncthing/ for much of this section. However, instead of modifying the syncthing config file to allow remote web browsers to change the config, I log into the Pi by [[Self-Hosting/2. Raspberry Pi Initial Configuration#Enable VNC\|Enabling VNC]]
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