Can kdeconnect work in two networks at the same time?
Hi everybody and thanks for the great work you're doing; here's my question
two android phones: M, where the kdeconnect is installed and S A Kubuntu 20.04 Pc An ethernet wifi device
Case 1 - I connect to internet using M phone through usb tethering, and kdeconnect works smoothly
Case 2 - I connect to internet using M phone as an hotspot and the ethernet wifi device, and kdeconnect works smoothly
Case 3 - I connect to internet using S phone with usb tethering but I need to use kdeconnect on the M phone as a remote for my pc: it doesn't really seem to find the device, not even if I manually add the ip from kdeconnect android app. as soon as I disable that connection, kdeconnect gets going
How can I do it, in Case 3? how can I get to use S connection to surf the web while using an M network just for kdeconnect, at the same time? is there a way to route just the kdeconnect traffic to the M connection (which is, in both cases, a 192.168.43.x while the S is always 192.168.42.x)?
Thanks anyway for the help
1 Answer
Seems like I managed to obtain the result I wanted! I created another ethernet connection with my connection manager , which I use for my ethernet wi-fi device, and I called it "Ethernet-Local" : under IPv4 Settings I selected "Routes" and put a tick to "Use this connection only for resources on its network". When I want to use the other phone's usb-tethered connection, I switch on the "Ethernet-Local" connection, and the two seems to co-exist in harmony! When I'm using M as an hotspot I switch back to the normal connection, called "Ethernet-Web",
it's even easy to automate
we'll need a script that gets launched everytime something changes between connections, and it must be owned by root
sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/90-kdeconAnd here's what's inside the script
#!/bin/sh
ethweb=$(nmcli dev | grep "Ethernet-Web" | grep -w "connected")
usb=$(nmcli dev | grep "usb0" | grep -w "connected")
ethlocal=$(nmcli dev | grep "Ethernet-Local" | grep -w "connected")
if [ -n "$usb" ] && [ -n "$ethweb" ] ; then
nmcli c up Ethernet-Local
elif [ -z "$usb" ] && [ -n "$ethlocal" ] ; then
nmcli c up Ethernet-Web
fineed to make it executable
sudo chmod +x /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/90-kdecon
