[Feature Request] Storage Connections like SFTP or s3 etc.

[zandercodes]

A good feature would be if you can only bind sftp etc. I have tried to connect my StorageBox from Hetzner to access my backups. I connected this via SSH. Unfortunately the connection does not work when I click on the folder.

The StorageBox has no shell access only sftp access.

This is the error:

io.xpipe.core.process.ProcessOutputException: Shell did not start up in time as we did not receive any response.

Command not found. Use 'help' to get a list of available commands.

Command not found. Use 'help' to get a list of available commands.
at io.xpipe.core.process.ProcessOutputException.withParagraph(ProcessOutputException.java:23)
at io.xpipe.ext.proc.util.e.bO(SourceFile:1457)
at io.xpipe.ext.proc.n.p(SourceFile:1676)
at io.xpipe.ext.proc.ssh.o.p(SourceFile:82)
at io.xpipe.ext.proc.n.D(SourceFile:575)
at io.xpipe.ext.proc.n.start(SourceFile:269)
at io.xpipe.core.store.ConnectionFileSystem.open(ConnectionFileSystem.java:39)
at io.xpipe.app.browser.file.BrowserFileSystemTabModel.lambda$init$4(BrowserFileSystemTabModel.java:98)
at io.xpipe.app.util.BooleanScope.executeExclusive(BooleanScope.java:22)
at io.xpipe.app.browser.file.BrowserFileSystemTabModel.init(BrowserFileSystemTabModel.java:93)
at io.xpipe.app.browser.BrowserFullSessionModel.openFileSystemSync(BrowserFullSessionModel.java:222)
at io.xpipe.app.browser.BrowserFullSessionModel.lambda$openFileSystemAsync$12(BrowserFullSessionModel.java:208)
at io.xpipe.app.util.ThreadHelper.lambda$runFailableAsync$1(ThreadHelper.java:45)
at io.xpipe.app.util.ThreadHelper.lambda$wrap$0(ThreadHelper.java:22)
at java.lang.VirtualThread.run(VirtualThread.java:329)

[crschnick]

Yeah that is a limitation of the current shell-based approach. I can look into implementing that as well, but that would require a lot of work as everything is designed around shells right now.

[zandercodes]

Yeah that is a limitation of the current shell-based approach. I can look into implementing that as well, but that would require a lot of work as everything is designed around shells right now.

Maybe you can plan this in the future when there is time.

[crschnick]

In 15.2 I added recognition for the hetzner storage box, so you should be able to open this in a terminal at least

[Seb33300]

Same request here. I have few clients on shared hosting providers with only FTP or SFTP access enabled.

[zandercodes]

@crschnick any news?

[crschnick]

It's on the TODO list, along with a lot of other stuff. The main reason why this isn't implemented yet is that this would take a lot of work compared to many other features

[crschnick]

This is now released

[crschnick]

At least for SFTP. S3 will be handled in a different update that focuses on AWS

[dev-Blaze]

@crschnick are we able to select what protocol to use the filebrowser with on a vm? sftp (specifically with Filezilla) works significantly faster than regular ssh connection(whichever one xpipe uses) when trying to move a large number of files or large amounts of data. if we can select sftp for large file transfers it would completely remove the need for filezilla for this.

Thanks for all the great work!

[crschnick]

That can be added, although that would open a separate file browser tab

[crschnick]

@dev-Blaze You can try https://github.com/xpipe-io/xpipe-ptb, I added a menu item in the file browser to open a dir in sftp

[yshah-aromatech]

im assuming this is the menu item, it seems to be greyed out for every vm I try it on. theyre all debian/ubuntu Endpoints.

[crschnick]

@yshah-aromatech No, that is not the button, that is the general directory options button which is only enabled if you are in a directory. This is the button: https://docs.xpipe.io/guide/ssh#sftp-sessions

However, this one is indeed broken for VMs. It will be showing up for VMs as well in the next update

[crschnick]

@yshah-aromatech This button should now show up for VMs as well

[yshah-aromatech]

@crschnick amazing, thanks so much! this allows me to do these operations directly inside of xpipe and not have use filezilla going forward at all.

great work.

[yshah-aromatech]

I have tested the ptb on both Macos 26.1 and ubuntu 25.10 and sftp works as intended. didn't have any issues with transferring data of 60k small sized files and 2k relatively large files.

I'm not sure how sftp works under the hood but I know filezilla can do multi-file transfers at once and this can speed up transfers of large number files and I believe xpipe is doing these 1 file at a time atm. might be completely wrong here, also possibly quite out of scope. again not a big deal as this is already much much faster than basic ssh data transfers.

Thanks again!

[crschnick]

Yeah right now it is not possible to do multiple transfers at the same time in one tab as everything is one session. You can however just open multiple tabs and do stuff in parallel there.

Not sure whether it will be possible to do that in one tab in the future, that would require some rework