KDEConnect not showing up in Dolphin

[Teunis]

The last couple of weeks I've been using 15.04 but got soooo tiered of it's problems that I went back to 14.04.3
I always have two installs anyway, the older was 14.10 but when support stopped I reinstalled 14.04.

Now I love KDEConnect and it works fine in 15.04 and it also did in 14.10.
But in 14.04 I can't get dolphin to show the connected phone and tablet.

I can send files from the phone to the computer but the other way around seems impossible.

I know I had the same problem with the original 14.04 install but that's over year ago.
Has anyone got this working? (in 14.04)

[vinnywright]

I dont use KDEconnect ,,,,,,,I do not have any "smart"phones @hear

but since you have a nice 14.04 and are tired of 15.04's quirks (you did enable the backports ,,,,dident you http://www.kubuntu.org/news/plasma-5...-kubuntu-1504/) ,,,,,,,,,,, you should try 15.10 ,,,,,,,,use the beta1 .iso not some daily and do a

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

as soon as your up and running .

we are on kernel

        [FONT=monospace][COLOR=#000000]vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ uname -a [/COLOR]
Linux vinny-Bonobo-Extreme 4.2.0-10-generic #11-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 13 11:23:40 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[/FONT]

@hear

VINNY

[claydoh]

Do you have the latest kdeconnect installed? The version in the below ppa looks to be the latest official release, and is the same version found in Wily 15.10 (just compiled for KDE 4) The android app and desktop software need to be the same version, usually, for things to work.

https://code.launchpad.net/~vikoadi/...ve/ubuntu/ppa/

[Teunis]

Thanks claydoh, that ppa and it's newer version of KDEConnect was what I needed!

[Clayman1000x]

How do I work this, copying this into terminal gives an error: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vikoadi/ppa/ubuntutrusty main

[Snowhog]

Put a space between ubuntu and trusty

[claydoh]

In the terminal, you would use add-apt-repository

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vikoadi/ppa

The "ppa:" address is found on the ppa's page, along with links to instructions, which I linked to above.

[Clayman1000x]

Put a space between ubuntu and trusty

Even that left me the same error:

clay1245dx@clay1245dx-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~$ deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vikoadi/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
No command 'deb' found, did you mean:
 Command 'debc' from package 'devscripts' (main)
 Command 'xdeb' from package 'xdeb' (universe)
 Command 'debi' from package 'devscripts' (main)
 Command 'derb' from package 'icu-devtools' (main)
 Command 'dab' from package 'bsdgames' (universe)
 Command 'deb3' from package 'quilt' (main)
 Command 'dwb' from package 'dwb' (universe)
deb: command not found

I have the repository done:

clay1245dx@clay1245dx-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vikoadi/ppa
[sudo] password for clay1245dx: 
 Contains :
* KDE Connect Indicator for Ubuntu and elementary OS, for information please read http://vikoadi.blogspot.com
* latest KDE Connect Package
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~vikoadi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it


gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpg0vlw24a/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpg0vlw24a/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key D05009CB from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpg0vlw24a/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key D05009CB: public key "Launchpad PPA for Viko Adi Rahmawan" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Thanks claydoh
sudo apt-get update after word, but I still can't transfer from pc to phone

[Clayman1000x]

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vikoadi/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/vikoadi/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

this is what that page gave me to use, what was i supposed to do with this if terminal won't take it.

[claydoh]

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/vikoadi/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/vikoadi/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

this is what that page gave me to use, what was i supposed to do with this if terminal won't take it.

Ignore that stuff, the command I gave you does all those things for you. You already have the ppa added by entering the command string

Those other lines you are entering in a terminal are not actual commands, but addresses to the ppa files that would be added to a config file, except that you already have that now.

next step is to update and then install kdeconnect.

[Clayman1000x]

Ignore that stuff, the command I gave you does all those things for you. You already have the ppa added by entering the command string

Those other lines you are entering in a terminal are not actual commands, but addresses to the ppa files that would be added to a config file, except that you already have that now.

next step is to update and then install kdeconnect.

I did the "sudo apt-get update"
now i guess i need to reinstall kde c
I now have the icon for connect in the taskbar now, transfered 2 files to phone so it works now, thank you

sudo apt-get install kdeconnect indicator-kdeconnect

[claydoh]

may just have to log out or reboot to start or reload the kdeconnect daemon

[Clayman1000x]

may just have to log out or reboot to start or reload the kdeconnect daemon

Ok, will try that but my time tonight is over, have to go to work, will be working on this in the morning though, thanks for all your input everyone.

[Clayman1000x]

I can go back and forth from laptop to phone now, great start, now I just need to get into the sd card, says I don't have permission, far as I can tell my phone isn't blocking anything.

root@clay1245dx-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:/home/clay1245dx/.kde/share/apps/kdeconnect/44a4867a42c2024c/storage# lsls: cannot open directory .: Permission denied
root@clay1245dx-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:/home/clay1245dx/.kde/share/apps/kdeconnect/44a4867a42c2024c/storage#