Downloads:
1,870
Downloads of v 9.0.0:
23
Last Update:
18 Jul 2025
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Theron Spiegl
Tags:
- #foss
- #cli
- #admin
- #linux
- #mac
- #macos
- #windows
- #encrypted
- #wifi
- #ad-hoc
- #go
- #qt
- #cross-platform
- #wireless
- #file-transfer
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Flying Carpet
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9.0.0 | Updated: 18 Jul 2025
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Downloads:
1,870
Downloads of v 9.0.0:
23
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Theron Spiegl
Flying Carpet 9.0.0
Legal Disclaimer: Neither this package nor Chocolatey Software, Inc. are affiliated with or endorsed by Theron Spiegl. The inclusion of Theron Spiegl trademark(s), if any, upon this webpage is solely to identify Theron Spiegl goods or services and not for commercial purposes.
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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall
To install Flying Carpet, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To upgrade Flying Carpet, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To uninstall Flying Carpet, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
Deployment Method:
This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.
1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url
(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)
2. Setup Your Environment
1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment
Please see the organizational deployment guide
2. Get the package into your environment
Option 1: Cached Package (Unreliable, Requires Internet - Same As Community)-
Open Source or Commercial:
- Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
- You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download
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Open Source
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Download the package:
Download - Follow manual internalization instructions
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Package Internalizer (C4B)
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Run: (additional options)
choco download flyingcarpet --internalize --source=https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/
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For package and dependencies run:
choco push --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'"
- Automate package internalization
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Run: (additional options)
3. Copy Your Script
choco upgrade flyingcarpet -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" [other options]
See options you can pass to upgrade.
See best practices for scripting.
Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.
If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:
choco upgrade flyingcarpet -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Install flyingcarpet
win_chocolatey:
name: flyingcarpet
version: '9.0.0'
source: INTERNAL REPO URL
state: present
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
chocolatey_package 'flyingcarpet' do
action :install
source 'INTERNAL REPO URL'
version '9.0.0'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
cChocoPackageInstaller flyingcarpet
{
Name = "flyingcarpet"
Version = "9.0.0"
Source = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'flyingcarpet':
ensure => '9.0.0',
provider => 'chocolatey',
source => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}
Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.
4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation
See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.
This package is likely a meta/virtual (*) or an installer (*.install) or portable (*.portable) application package.
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- Portable (*.portable/*.commandline (deprecated naming convention)/*.tool (deprecated naming convention)) - usually zips or archives that require no administrative access to install.
- Install (*.install/*.app (deprecated naming convention)) - uses native installers, usually requires administrative access to install.
Learn more about chocolatey's distinction of installed versus portable apps and/or learn about this kind of package.
This package was approved as a trusted package on 18 Jul 2025.
Send and receive files between Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows over ad hoc WiFi. No shared network or cell connection required, just two devices with WiFi chips in close range.
Don't have a flash drive? Don't have access to a wireless network? Need to move a file larger than 2GB between different filesystems but don't want to set up a network share? Try it out!
Screenshots:
Restrictions:
Apple devices can only transfer to/from Android, Linux, and Windows as they can no longer programmatically run hotspots. Use AirDrop instead for Apple-to-Apple transfers.
Disables your wireless internet connection while in use. (Does not apply to Windows or Android when hosting the hotspot.)
macOS sometimes switches back to a wireless network with internet connectivity during particularly long transfers.
The Android version requires at least Android 11/API level 30. There is a version requiring only Android 4.4/SDK 19 on the releases page, but I've heard two reports of it not working and I am not able to test or debug. The Android version does not work on some Xiaomi, MIUI, or HarmonyOS devices, and possibly other Android-like OSes. I don't own these devices and so can't test, but it seems like this is due to lack of support for the LocalOnlyHotspot API. It has been confirmed to work on at least one Xiaomi phone.
Requires Windows 10 or later.
Planned Features
Bluetooth for connection negotiation (instead of QR code scanning or manual entry)?
Add Flying Carpet shortcut to iOS Share menu.
Questions That Could Be Asked at Some Point:
You're using SHA-256 to derive the key from a password. Isn't that bad? Shouldn't you be using a Password-Based Key Derivation Function like Scrypt or Argon2? I was doing this before, but it wasn't strictly necessary because these keys are only used during the file transfer. For an attacker to intercept the data in transit, they'd need to be on the hotspot network, which is protected by WPA2, so they'd need to shoulder-surf the password or QR code. The change was made because I couldn't find a good Scrypt or Argon2 implementation on all platforms.
Why are you using AES-GCM at all if there's already WPA2 then? When I started working on this project in 2017, I was trying to allow for IBSS WiFi networks on macOS that didn't use authentication. I was using the wrong encryption (and incorrectly) then, and later I added AES-GCM because it's the only good and official-ish AEAD implementation I could find in all of Go, Swift, Kotlin, and now Rust. If any cryptographers read this and find that I'm still being dumb, please let me know.
Questions for Hypothetical Users:
If you've used Flying Carpet, please send feedback to theron(at)spiegl.dev. Thanks for your interest! Please also check out https://github.com/spieglt/cloaker, https://cloaker.mobi, and https://github.com/spieglt/whatfiles.
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Add to Builder | Version | Downloads | Last Updated | Status |
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Flying Carpet 9.0.0 | 23 | Friday, July 18, 2025 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 8.0.1 | 163 | Tuesday, January 2, 2024 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 7.1.0 | 90 | Monday, October 23, 2023 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 7.0.0 | 107 | Wednesday, July 19, 2023 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 6.0 | 234 | Thursday, August 4, 2022 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 5.0 | 148 | Tuesday, March 8, 2022 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 4.1 | 156 | Wednesday, September 29, 2021 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 4.0 | 105 | Tuesday, September 28, 2021 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 3.0 | 231 | Tuesday, September 1, 2020 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 2.0.1 | 176 | Monday, August 31, 2020 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 2.0 | 139 | Tuesday, September 1, 2020 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 1.2 | 135 | Monday, August 31, 2020 | Approved | |
Flying Carpet 1.1 | 163 | Friday, July 31, 2020 | Approved |
Copyright © 2017 - 2025 Theron Spiegl
Version 9 adds Bluetooth for connection negotiation, instead of QR code scanning or password entry. If either device cannot use Bluetooth, turn off the Bluetooth switch within Flying Carpet on both devices and the old methods can be used.
The Android version is available on the Play Store, or android_FlyingCarpet_9.0.3.apk
is available here if you would like to sideload. It supports Android 10/SDK 29 and up.
The iOS version is available here or search the App Store for "Flying Carpet File Transfer".
Send and receive files between Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows over ad hoc WiFi. No shared network or cell connection required, just two devices with WiFi chips (and optionally Bluetooth) in close range.
Don't have a flash drive? Don't have access to a wireless network? Need to move a file larger than 2GB between different filesystems but don't want to set up a network share? Try it out!
macOS version 9.0.1 fixes a UI bug that was causing crashes, as well as some minor layout bugs.
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