Syncing over your local network

If your Nextcloud server is in your home or office, Nimbo can sync with it directly over your own network when you are there, and over the internet when you are not.

When this helps#

Normally Nimbo reaches your server at its public internet address, even when the server is in the same building. Depending on how your network is set up, that traffic can go out to the internet and back in again, which is slower than it needs to be and can be limited by your internet upload speed. Giving Nimbo a local address as well lets it go straight to the server whenever it can.

This setting is only useful if your server is on the same network as your PC. If your Nextcloud is hosted elsewhere, leave it empty. It is only offered for accounts whose server address uses HTTPS.

Setting it up#

  1. Open Settings → General → Account and find Local network address.
  2. Enter the address your server has on your network, for example 192.168.1.100 or nextcloud.lan, and click Test. The address must use HTTPS, however a self-signed certificate is fine.
  3. Nimbo checks that the address really is your Nextcloud before it sends anything to it, so a typo or a different server is refused rather than trusted.
  4. If the certificate is self-signed, Nimbo shows its details and its SHA-256 fingerprint. Compare the fingerprint with the one shown on your server, then click Trust this certificate. Only that exact certificate is trusted, so if it is replaced later you will be asked to trust the new one.
  5. Once the test passes, click Use this address to save it.

If you run your own certificate authority, you can import its certificate into Windows instead, and no fingerprint needs to be trusted.

The local address has to serve the same site as the public one, including the real-time push socket at /push/ws if you use real-time push. If Nextcloud sits behind a reverse proxy, use the proxy's local address rather than the Nextcloud machine's.

How Nimbo picks an address#

Nimbo uses the local address whenever it can reach it, and falls back to the internet address as soon as it cannot, for example when you take a laptop out of the house. It checks again about once a minute, so it moves back to the local address shortly after you return. You do not need to change anything when you move between networks. To stop using the local address, click Remove.