syncthing setup exclusively with CLI

syncthing-setup-exclusively-with-CLI.md

After long searching I did not find a good description of how to set up Syncthing that works exclusively via CLI without using a Web browser on the devices.

This is useful for example on a headless Raspberry Pi without proxying web-traffic through SSH or with port-forwarding limitations. In this example we will want to share the default folder from Machine A with Machine B

Machine A	Machine B
Install Syncthing On debian: sudo apt install syncthing On fedora: sudo dnf install syncthing Start Syncthing systemctl start syncthing@root Get the device id syncthing --device-id Create a folder "kek" mkdir -p /root/kek syncthing cli config folders add --id kek --path /root/kek/	(the same)
Add Machine B syncthing cli config devices add --device-id $DEVICE_ID_B	Add Machine A syncthing cli config devices add --device-id $DEVICE_ID_A
Share the folder "kek" with Machine B syncthing cli config folders kek devices add --device-id $DEVICE_ID_B
	Accept default folder from Machine A syncthing cli config devices $DEVICE_ID_A auto-accept-folders set true If you don't want Machine B automatically accepting all of Machine A's folder requests, just run this command again with false
wait ~30 sec	wait ~30 sec

Additional useful info can be found at: https://superuser.com/questions/1397683/how-can-i-configure-syncthing-from-command-line-to-share-a-folder-with-another-c/1731999#1731999?s=0744928a5f9d4717b7445d039785ba53.

Don't waste your time with this repo, as it hasn't been updated since 2014, it is not working: https://github.com/classicsc/syncthingmanager

This repo https://github.com/tenox7/stc is useful but it doesn't not offer adding devices/folders.