I’m trying to configure what must be the simplest possible setup. I have a single windows machine at home and a remote linux server. I’m trying to set up a one-way, direct connection between the two. On the server I see the home machine is “Unused” and on the home machine I see the server is “Not connected”. “Last Seen” both show “Never”.
I’ve tried everything I can think of to get this to work: creating matching folders on each end with the same ID, sharing it one way, both ways, configuring the address by hostname, by IP, with tcp:// tcp4:// tcp6://.
This leads me to one question: how come there is no feedback at all when trying to make this link. Not in the GUI not in the console. Nowhere. A simple “test connection” button would save countless hours of frustration.
Syncthing pretty much does that every minute (as in tries to connect), and if you are not connected after a minute you can safely assume the test failed.
As to why, it’s a different story, and there should be more exposure.
With 283 devices it’s about 4 lines per second, or a few hundred MB/year. You can contrast that with the 25TB that guy is apparently syncing. If you object to that, why not just log the errors? Just as easy and almost as useful.