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A browser extension to send pages and content from your browser to connected KDE Connect devices.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kde-connect/ofmplbbfigookafjahpeepbggpofdhbo
MIT License
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No device found #18

Closed hhl closed 6 years ago

hhl commented 6 years ago

Hi, i have installed the APP via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kde_connect/ kdeconnect is running without any issue!

but the phone is not recognized by the browser APP. Only thing I see is a red square and "No devices found ..." and after a while Error could not connect to native host Error version response .... (or similar)

System: debian sid/unstable KDE Connect Add On 0.1.4

$ LANG=C apt policy firefox kdeconnect
firefox:
  Installed: 57.0.4-1
  Candidate: 57.0.4-1
  Version table:
     58.0~b14-1 1
          1 http://ftp.debian.de/debian experimental/main amd64 Packages
 *** 57.0.4-1 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.de/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
kdeconnect:
  Installed: 1.0.3-1
  Candidate: 1.0.3-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.3-1 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.de/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Edit: same behaviour with chrome


google-chrome-stable:
  Installed: 63.0.3239.132-1
  Candidate: 63.0.3239.132-1
  Version table:
 *** 63.0.3239.132-1 500
        500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status```
pdf commented 6 years ago

Did you follow the instructions in the README of this repository to install the native host?

hhl commented 6 years ago

oh, i am sorry, i stumbled over your add on and installed it by clicking, but didn't took a look to the github side. Now it is working, i am sorry. Maybe give a short description at the addon side, or let a popup-warning appear if no device/host found, aka: did you download and installed the native host like described at ..... or maybe find a way to do it automagicly with asking to allow ......

greetings and sorry for the noise

pdf commented 6 years ago

The addons page does mention this:

This extension relies on a Native Messaging Host to communicate with KDE Connect devices. See https://github.com/pdf/kdeconnect-chrome-extension for installation.

But I'll see if there's a way I can make it more obvious from inside the addon (making the addon cross-browser unfortunately makes it hard to detect the missing native host reliably).

Glad you're up and running in any case :+1: