TiddlyWiki and Nextcloud Setup also working on an Android-phone?

[Axel Klein]

Hi *,

I have some TiddlyWiki on my Nextcloud-server (which is actually a Raspberry-Pi sitting on my private office desk).

Syncing with my various Ubuntu and Windows computers works very well.

Now what does not work yet is to have a working setup on my Android phone. I can read the TiddlyWiki-file(s), but I cannot save the changed file into the Nextcloud directory so it can be synchronized. The firefox extension 'File Backups' works, but can save the TiddlyWiki-files only in the download-directory or below.

Since the Nextcloud-files live somewhere else, I see the only possibility to copy the files around before and after editing which is not acceptable in day-to day work.

So my question: Is there a setup that works seamlessely?

Thanks in advance for the answers.

Best regards

Axel

[Mark S.]

Since you're already running a server, you could add TiddlyServer, node.js, or Jed's mutli-user server and work from those.

I see that Nextcloud works with WebDAV.  See https://tiddlywiki.com/#Saving%20via%20WebDAV for links to information about using WebDav and TW.

If your android phone is rooted, or allows you to use Termux, I think a batch script could be used to find and copy the latest downloaded TW file to it's starting position (it's 4 lines of script ).

You could also run syncthing or other file synchronizer to automatically synchronize your TW files. (this is what I use for phone/tablets). Of course, this would be separate from NextCloud.


-- Mark

On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 11:41:33 AM UTC-7, Axel Klein wrote:

Hi *,

I have some TiddlyWiki on my Nextcloud-server (which is actually a Raspberry-Pi sitting on my private office desk.

[Jed Carty]

You may be able to create a symlink between your wiki folder and a sub-folder of your downloads, but I don't think that most phones use a file system that supports that.

And because I have to do a bit of self-promotion,

The multi-user plugin was made to solve problems like this and I have it on the raspberry pi server that I carry around with my laptop. The problem I keep running into with android is that it doesn't have good mdns support so I have to figure out the ip of the server instead of being able to just got to raspberrypi.local. 

With the multi-user plugin there is only one tiddlywiki process that serves all the wikis so it is less resource intensive than spawning a new node process for each wiki which was one of the motivations I had for creating it in the first place, the pi kept crashing when I had more than 3 or 4 wikis running on top of all the other things I have running on it (gitea, droppy and some other small server things I made)

The plugin is available on GitHub (https://github.com/OokTech/TW5-MultiUser)

[TonyM]

Axel,

I use Termux (not a solution for you) However I recall in the Termux Doco some references to permit an app such as "termux" to access locations outside the download folder. Look for info on access to other folders within android phones, matching or later versions of android are different. 

Regards

Tony

[Riz]

Termux can synchronise access the folder if it is in the internal storage of your phone. In fact, all android apps can access almost all folders in the internal storage. I use Termux-NodeJS-Syncthing to do it.

[Axel Klein]

Hi *,

Thanks to your ideas and inspiration I've found a solution that works for me at the moment with the Android-app 'FolderSync'. This gives me the possibility to manually or automated sync the folder in which my TiddlyWikis live.

Now I wonder why you, TonyM, say that Termux is not a solution for me?

I suppose you could run a script with rsync that does exactly that what 'FolderSync' does, don't you? I was just too lazy to try this. And FolderSync works, so my attention goes to more urgent things.

Nevertheless thank you everybody for your contributions. I really appreciate this.

Best regards

Axel

[TonyM]

Axel,

Only because you were using Nextcloud, and perhaps did not want Termux. I was trying to say the behaviour of Termux should work for other apps, not trying to tell you to use Termuix.

I will leave you to decide whats best for you :)

Regards

Tony