How many reminders will it take for me to just know that ssh access includes scp
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May 9, 2026
I asked here about various ways that I could get my TV-connected-downstairs raspberry pi to be able to access my whole film collection. I was thinking about hardware solutions like the portable hard drive idea which was my first attempt.
Lately I've been thinking about more software solutions, I've played with the media server / USB port on my router for example, I enabled file sharing services on Win11 as a quick test to see whether the pi could access it with reasonable ease.
Then once again I remembered: Why don't I just access my PC upstairs via SSH/SCP? The stupid thing is that I've been scp'ing to the pi and transferring a few things my wife might want to watch onto the very limited internal storage.
I just have to admit that Windows-like thinking forms such a large part of my computer knowledge that it's hard to think outside of that box sometimes.
I've tested out the pi and it can connect via scp through the file manager and I can play...
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