[Goto80]

> Writing code is fun, but I can't find much of a downside with Bluetooth here.

Yesterday my son needed to transfer a video file from his Android phone to his school iPad. We tried Bluetooth, but it simply kept failing, no matter what we tried. The devices saw each other and could be paired, but file transfer didn't work at all. We tried sending the same video file to another Android phone, and it just worked on first try.

So, even basic Bluetooth doesn't work in all cases, unfortunately. He ended up recording a video of his phone playing the video... :)

> I don't expect Apple to play nice with anyone else...

This seems to be the problem in our case.

Tonight I'll setup a Nextcloud on our network, this should work properly.

[fransje26]

Give those options a try:

- https://www.sharedrop.io/

- https://webwormhole.io/

- https://snapdrop.net/

- https://perguth.de/peertransfer/

- https://pairdrop.net/

[antgiant]

Adding my favorite

- https://justbeamit.com

[GeekyBear]

> Yesterday my son needed to transfer a video file from his Android phone to his school iPad.

The iOS version of VLC has a built in webserver you can remotely connect to for file transfers.

You connect to the iPad's IP address with any web browser and then transfer files back and forth.

https://allthings.how/vlc-player-share-files-wifi-iphone-pc/