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App with REST Server for device info? (self.android)

submitted 11 months ago by csm10495 to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks,

Does anyone know of an app (FOSS or otherwise) that has a built-in REST-server to get current device info?

I'd like to be able to hit the API from within my local network to get info including:

Free space vs used space
Battery percentage

Why?

I have an old Android device that sits in the closet as a Syncthing node. It does some other random stuff too. I don't really want to have to get up and look at it to find out certain information. I already have a VNC server running on it. I even have a (sketchy) SSH server on it that I currently call df -h on to programmatically get free space info. The SSH server has some weirdness where it seems to stop working after some time, among other oddities. Also it can't get battery level afaict.

I imagine this is possible using ADB, but I don't really want to have to always leave the device in wireless ADB mode or manually put it in that mode each time; unless that is easier than I think.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can enable permanent adb in the developer options. I forget what it's called. And you need to check the remember box when allowing the connection.

[–] csm10495 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm giving this a try. If it can remember the server that talks to it and does not need a re-pair each time, this might be ok.

At first I tried adb_shell with Python and found it didn't seem to be able to pair or connect over wifi. So I fell back to creatively shelling out to the adb cli. So far so good.

Thanks for the suggestion!

[–] csm10495 1 points 10 months ago

Unfortunately this doesn't work well. You can enable wireless debugging, but it'll get disabled if the wifi disconnects/reconnects.. ever more annoying is that it'll come back up with a new port making automation basically impossible here.

Still on the hunt for something better.