KDE Connect might work. I’ve never tried it phone-to-phone, but it works great between PC, Steam Deck, and phone, as long as they are on the same network.

You could go visit hexbear and you’d find out pretty quickly. It’s definitely not for everyone.

The RK3566 and RK3588 alternatives are pretty good, and there are a bunch of them from different companies.

I have a 3566 myself as a compatible alternative to a CM4, and it does its job just fine.

I assume the issue was the bulb was getting assigned by DHCP the same address that was supposed to be reserved for their PC, thus their wifi appearing not to work for their PC.

If the file itself is shared, you can probably mount the iso as a drive on the client computer and play it as a dvd.

It’s just for using as shared storage between several devices. Just receive files from whichever device I’m using, and serve them later to another device. Basically to replace having to use an external drive and swapping it between devices.

I probably won’t need to transcode anything, I just want it to serve files as they are.

I don’t know if you’ve mentioned this somewhere, but what’s the purpose of the GPS on a home server?