Sailfish Connect

Submitted by R1tschY on Mon, 2026/06/01 - 19:34

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KDE Connect client for Sailfish OS

Features

This application allows you to connect to other devices running KDE Connect. At the moment following set of KDE Connect plugins are supported:

Battery - Share battery status with your computer.
Clipboard - Share clipboard text content.
MPRIS - Control multimedia player from your computer.
Share - Send and receive files, text and URLs.
Touchpad - Create mouse input from your phone.
Keyboard - Create keyboard input from your phone.
Notifications - Sends notifications to your computer.
Telephony - Send incoming and missed calls to your computer.
Commands - Send and receive user-defined shell commands.
Remote system volume - Change volume of audio sinks of your computer.

More will follow.

Submit bugs to Github or use Git Reports if you do not own a Github account.

Join #sailfishconnect:matrix.org for discussion and feedback.

Other KDE Connect Clients

KDE Connect KDE: Desktop client mainly written for KDE Plasma
GSConnect: Desktop client written for GNOME Shell
KDE Connect Android: Client for Android

Contribute

Source code: https://github.com/R1tschY/harbour-sailfishconnect
Translation: https://www.transifex.com/r1tschy/sailfish-connect

Known Issues

LAN: A connection through USB-Ethernet and developer mode is not possible.

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Application versions:

Attachment	Size	Date
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.2-1.aarch64.rpm	638.26 KB	01/06/2026 - 19:34
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.2-1.armv7hl.rpm	556.44 KB	01/06/2026 - 19:34
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.2-1.i486.rpm	636.96 KB	01/06/2026 - 19:34
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.1-1.aarch64.rpm	702.48 KB	29/08/2025 - 16:30
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.1-1.armv7hl.rpm	645.08 KB	29/08/2025 - 16:30
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.1-1.i486.rpm	733.38 KB	29/08/2025 - 16:30
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.0-1.aarch64.rpm	701.62 KB	03/06/2024 - 21:09
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.0-1.armv7hl.rpm	644.61 KB	03/06/2024 - 21:09
harbour-sailfishconnect-0.7.0-1.i486.rpm	732.35 KB	03/06/2024 - 21:09

Changelog:

0.7.2

Fix installation on Sailfish OS 5.1.0
Requires now Sailfish OS 5.0

0.7.1

Fix clipboard upload
Fix file upload to GSConnect

0.7.0

Upload of multiple files at once possible
Use system keyboard for remote keyboard
Unpair action moved to device list page and uses remorse item
Upgrade to KDE Connect 24.01.90
Fix deprecated linkage to OpenSSL 1.0

0.6.2

Disable sandbox for Sailfish 4.4 support

0.6.1

Support for aarch64 architecture (#46)
Requires Sailfish 4.0

0.6.0

Direct use of KDE Connect desktop client as backend instead of own fork
Add IPs of custom devices to be searched for (#35)
Added command plugins
Added remote system volume plugin
Replaced transactions page with transaction notifications
Fixed remote keyboard for special characters like comma, space, fullstop (#34)
Migrated battery plugin to use MCE DBus interface instead of statefs (Fixes installation on Sailfish OS 4.0.1)
Fixed album art for Spotify
Added Estonian translation (thanks to Priit Jõerüüt)

0.5.1

Allow newer TLS versions (#38). Fixes broken GSConnect support for linux distributions using GLib >= 2.64.
Fixed monitoring of notifications in release build. (see #37)

0.5.0

Added Contacts plugin.
Resolve phone numbers to contact names in telephony plugin.
Starts now at system start as systemd user service when in background mode
Fixed GSConnect not showing notifications without a icon
Added translation for Italian (thanks to ghostofasmile)

0.4.1

Fix bug of app quiting after file transfer of any kind when screen is off
Fix file upload to GSConnect
Wake up app regularly to keep TCP connections alive (see #27)
Added translation for French and one missing translatable string (thanks to the translators)

0.4.0

Added keyboard plugin (thanks to derFogel)
Added album art to media player
Added possibility to open downloaded file
Redesigned device page
Enhanced sending notifications
File transfers are now more robust (especially large transfers)
Changed: Clipboard content must now explicitly pushed (see #7)
Added translation for Finnish, Swedish and Polish (thanks to the translators)

0.3.0

Added page to show file transfers
Added telephony plugin
Fixed various bugs to support GSConnect
Fixed crash when unpairing
Fixed various small bugs

0.2.0

Changed name to Sailfish Connect
Added setting to control running in background (new default is off)
Added notifications for pairing and ping plugin
Added touchpad plugin
Added share plugin
Added notifications plugin prototype
Made few ui enhancements
Fixed several bugs
Added known issue description notice for clipboard plugin
Connecting should be more stable

Comments

R1tschY

Sun, 2019/03/03 - 17:30

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Transifex is the prefered way. Swedish is now accepted.

objectifnul

Mon, 2018/12/17 - 13:30

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There seems to be a size limit for file transfer, but I didn't manage to determine its exact value.

R1tschY

Mon, 2018/12/17 - 23:01

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There should not be any. The feature is not as stable as it should, but I'm working on it.

objectifnul

Sat, 2018/11/24 - 22:38

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Useful to know, at least for Ubuntu users. These ports must be open on desktop side:

 sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/udp
 sudo ufw allow 1714:1764/tcp
 sudo ufw reload

(see here how to revert those permissions)

eson

Sun, 2019/03/03 - 10:49

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That is very generell. I would specify which machine(s)/IP(s) is allowed to connect.

sudo ufw allow proto udp to any port 1714:1764 from 192.168.*.*
sudo ufw allow proto tcp to any port 1714:1764 from 192.168.*.*
sudo ufw reload

dfstorm

Wed, 2018/11/07 - 04:23

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Tmojo: thank you. I was wondering.

tmojo

Tue, 2018/10/23 - 21:32

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Thanks for your app, it enhances usability of my phone a lot.

There's one issue that puzzles me, just don't know if it's me or for everyone: sailfish-connect and kde-connect don't see each other if the phone is connected via USB / developer-mode. I can contact the instance via `openssl s_client ...` so it does not seem to be a network issue. Connection via wifi work without any issue.