The plugin brings the excellent CopyParty, which is a file server program. After toggling it on from the Decky plugin, you can go to the provided IP address on any of your devices, enter the password, and access the Deck’s files. You can manage files, upload or download files, and more. File transfer speeds are fast and resumable.
Here’s the GitHub for the plugin, although for right now it’s pretty bare on a description. For details one what all it can do, I’d recommend checking out the CopyParty link up above.
CopyParty is amazing. I also use https://localsend.org/, for one off transfer. Pretty easy to set up if you didn’t have complicated firewall.
FYI the TLD in your link appears to be incorrect.
You can also use kdeconnect for filesharing in your home network, an it has a whole bunch of other features like mouse control emulation and remote multimedia control and such.
This is not related to the solution posted, but may be useful to someone:
My NAS has been amazing for this. This obviously needs additional hardware, but can be done by connecting a USB stick to your existing router. Works great as the middle man to move files to any device (PC, Steam Deck, handheld emulation console, etc). Also works great to auto sync the files with syncthing.
This is fully possible through SSH without 3rd party plugins, even on Windows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QSpdKcXUww
This is 1000% true but some people need the gui and that’s probably ok too
I just ssh to it with vs code. You get a console to install things with and what not, a text editor so you can write your own scripts or notes for things and a file manager to move things around. Idk if the speeds are the best though.
Ssh and ftp are great once they’re setup, but they’re not as simple as this, especially for non technical users.
This is also much faster than ssh/ftp for downloads and uploads. It breaks files up into multiple concurrent streams, in benchmarks it can hit download speeds of 8GB/s and upload speeds of 1GB/s (network allowing). It also does deduplication during the transfers, making real world transfer times faster than just the actual transfer speed.
I ssh into it with my file browser “Dolphin” on Linux (the same that is used in the Steam Deck as well). Needs to be setup first, but then I can access the files with the file browser. And secondary I ssh into it in terminal, but that is not to transfer files, but to have access to commands execution on the device (like installing something from commandline).
You’re on fire with the plugin recommendations, thanks!
