Hm, Google Lens can do a lot of this too, and more too – you might want to try that (since you’re getting things from the Play Store I’m assuming you’re not degoogled).
the easiest (but old school) method of exchanging data between the mobile and the desktop pc became for me the good old email.
Some may call it old and lame but this way you don´t have to spam your information to any suspicious app provider who will surely also suck all the information into their databases to sell them to their customers
Be friendly to yourself:
Write an email to the person you love the most: yourself
About the QR-scanner:
The scanner you use requires a lot of permissions just to scan a QR code.
It would be interesting to hear from the developers why they needed so much permissions for such an easy task. Is this app just scanning QRs … or are they making money with more of your private data ?
At least I´m wondering why this app even wants access to your mobile´s contact list …
Maybe you like to try out an alternative QR-scanner which is much more private than the one you use. I would recommend either:
“See the website for troubleshooting and explanations of the permissions. The app allows you to share contacts, apps, and bookmarks in a QR Code. This is why contacts permissions are needed. See ‘Visit Developer Website’ below ( Frequently Asked Questions · zxing/zxing Wiki · GitHub ).”
Took me few days to fight down my laziness to set this up on a dedicated device but works nice and flawlessly so far. Great hint esp. for syncing between different systems.
The only thing I´m wondering about at the moment:
Installed on the mobile Syncthing comes with the price of running in the backgound all (or most) of the time and checking for changes which consumes battery power.
Maybe I got to dig deeper into the settings for that it only syncs my mobile´s folders only on demand and not all the time …
If that´s not possible I guess I´ll stay with my old school method until I need such a sync more often than 1-3 times each quarter
Nevertheless: a great open source tool! Worth a try and easy to set up.
Well, it checks for changes using inotify (using GitHub - syncthing/notify: File system event notification library on steroids.), which consumes zero CPU time (the kernel notifies SyncThing when things of interest change). You do still need to turn battery optimization off for it, or it’ll tend to get killed while it tries to do the actual transfers (that’s too much work in the background! no it isn’t, it’s what we installed it for).
It consumes very little battery power indeed, as the battery usage graph should show. (If it does consume noticeable amounts of power, that’s a bug. Mine threw several dozen photos over since the last charge and shows no power usage at all.)
I first made an attempt using DroidCam and Code Two’s Windows QR decoder app. This attempt failed since the image decoder part fails constantly.
But www.qrzahlteil.ch works fairly well so I even don’t longer need the VBScript routine because it allows to communicate with the financial app directly.
KDE Connect might be of use here. it’s got a button that sends the clipboard content between devices, and you can put it in the quick settings area for easy access. and contrary to what the name would suggest, it works on any Linux desktop environment, not just KDE, and on Windows as well.
