⚡ Pi-Drop: Tailscale Automation

About The Project

These scripts will take your "4button" locally served gpio control website and make it securely accessible from the outside world. The first will install tailscale on your Raspberry Pi or your headless Windows server, and provide instruction for linking your mobile device.

Using Taildrop to send photos to a headless Linux or Windows box manually requires clunky command-line extraction. Our second script will install a taildrop service daemon, so you can simply run it, select a folder or external drive and make photo sending from mobile devices a breeze. Simply select however many photos you like, press share, select tailscale from the dialogue box and then select your destination. The photos will be there in an instant.

Pi-Drop Improves Functionality.

• Script 1: Automates the installation and network authentication of Tailscale.
• Script 2: Detects connected NVMe/USB drives, lets you choose a destination, and builds an infinite-loop Systemd daemon. Any photo sent from your phone instantly appears on your Pi's drive.

🐧 Linux Setup (Raspberry Pi / Ubuntu)

# Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/rubato22/pi-drop.git
cd pi-drop

# Make scripts executable
chmod +x *.sh

# 1. Install Tailscale
./install_tailscale.sh

# 2. Setup Auto-Receive Daemon
./setup_taildrop.sh

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🪟 Windows Setup (Headless Servers / Media PCs)

Pi-Drop also features a native PowerShell script that builds an invisible Scheduled Task daemon for Windows environments. Because Windows requires a bypass command to run downloaded scripts, please check the GitHub repository for the one-line installation command.

View Windows Instructions on GitHub