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Local Synchronization over bluetooth and WiFi

Open vkkhare opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

I would like to know if there are any plans to introduce local real-time synchronization across the devices using p2p connections like Bluetooth/wifi-direct rather than cloud-based syncing.

  • This will help us increase the frequency of updates without overloading the sync server

  • Better control over privacy as everything happens directly via the clients

vkkhare avatar May 03 '21 07:05 vkkhare

This is a very interesting idea, but it's not currently planned.

Have a look at https://www.imperialviolet.org/2023/07/23/u2f-to-passkeys.html (scroll down to caBLE / hybrid) to get an idea of some of the difficulties in using Bluetooth in practice across different kinds of devices.

fmarier avatar Jul 27 '23 02:07 fmarier