kdeconnect-cli broadcast option

[Achilleas Koutsou]

Oh yes, of course. That's what I was thinking about too. I understand it
might cause issues to do it by default when there's only one device. I was
simply describing a (perhaps common) use case, when I was referring to the
one device scenario.

On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 at 16:03 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Achilleas Koutsou
> <achilleas.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've recently been using a script to broadcast messages to all my
> connected
> > devices. It basically iterates through "kdeconnect-cli -a --id-only" and
> > runs the command I supplied.
> >
> > This isn't tedious, or even bothersome, but I was thinking it might be
> nice
> > to have it as a built-in option. I was thinking this would also be useful
> > for people who want to run a command (send ping, share file, etc) from
> the
> > command line and only have one device paired. It's strange to have to
> lookup
> > the device id, then run the command with the id to perform an action when
> > all you have paired is that one device.
> >
> > What do you think? Is this useful?
> > I presume it's a rather simple implementation as well, if you don't mind
> me
> > taking a stab at it.
>
> That could make sense, provided we think it through.
>
> Maybe it would make more sense as a --all-paired-devices argument,
> rather than just doing if there's the one paired device?
>
> Aleix
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