I’m thinking about running FreshRSS on my local Linux PC, but my computer isn’t on all the time.
Basically all I want is to have read/unread status synced between my PC and other 2 phones. Could I have that? Most of time my PC would be off and I will be reading articles on phone, would the read status be synced to PC once it’s on?
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Yeah, it’s better if you can have the computer on all the time, but it only needs to be running when you access it.
I’m not that familiar with FreshRSS, but in general apps will only update at opening (not in the background) for most syncing operations. You may have to do more manual syncing than you would like.
FreshRSS has an API that can be called by different apps in the app store.
I use FreshRSS web interface on my computer, and then use the Readrops app on my phone.
Depends on the client actually. If your phone app’s client stores state and syncs whenever the server is available, then this setup works. If the client does not, and tries to sync live state, then it will only work if the freshrss server is also up and running.
On iOS, I know Fiery Feeds saves state and syncs when the server is available.
You could run FreshRSS on a RPi: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-freshrss/
Then interface that with your network. Heck, you could probably go down to your local Goodwill or Computer Resell shop and pick up something.
I self host on a 5 year old Dell Optiplex Small Form Factor desktop.
I also have a Raspberry Pi, which has about 1/16 the performance of the desktop - Pi can be used for all sorts of stuff.
I’m not familiar with FreshRSS, but assuming that there’s something in the protocol that lets a reader push up a “read” bit on an per article basis — this page references a “GReader” API — I’d assume that that’d depend on the client, not the server.
If the client attempts an update and fails and that causes it to not retry again later, then I imagine that it wouldn’t work. If it does retry until it sets the bit, I’d imagine that it does work. The FreshRSS server can’t really be a factor, because it won’t know whether the client has tried to talk to it when it’s off.
EDIT: Some of the clients in the table on the page I linked to say that they “work offline”, so I assume that the developers at least have some level of disconnected operation in mind.
The RSS readers I’ve always used are strictly pull. They don’t set bits on the server, and any “read” flag lives only on the client.
If you read it on another device and your PC isn’t on, it has no way to register that.
Why not just set up a proper server?
