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!
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.