kdeconnect-cli broadcast option

[Albert Vaca]

Actually Android's ADB tool defaults to the only connected device, if it's
the case. I might make sense to do that, it's handy.

On Mar 18, 2016 08:16, "Aleix Pol" <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> No need to make it the default, it can be a separate argument, so you
> either pass "-d devicename" or "--all".
>
> Aleix
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Achilleas Koutsou
> <achilleas.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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