syncthing setup exclusively with CLI

syncthing-setup-exclusively-with-CLI.md

GCE gcloud command: setup ssh key and connect to the desired VM instance

1. create ssh key:https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/connect/create-ssh-keys
2. add pub key to VM: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/connect/add-ssh-keys#os-login
3. ssh connect to VM: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/connect/standard-ssh

Syncthing setup on Linux

Syncthing setup: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-syncthing-ubuntu-desktop-server

START / STOP Syncthing Service

This is useful for automated bash scripts.

sudo systemctl start syncthing@$USER.service

sudo systemctl stop syncthing@$USER.service

sudo systemctl enable syncthing@$USER # enable autostart at boot

syncthing cli operations restart/shutdown # syncthing CLI interface

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 Generate device ID and config files and default folder syncthing generate Start Syncthing syncthing --no-browser Get the device id syncthing --device-id	Install Syncthing On debian: sudo apt install syncthing On fedora: sudo dnf install syncthing Generate device ID and config files and default folder syncthing generate Start Syncthing syncthing --no-browser Get the device id syncthing --device-id
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 default folder with Machine B syncthing cli config folders $FOLDER_ID devices add --device-id $DEVICE_ID_B Insert the id from the folder you want to share into $FOLDER_ID
	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

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.