Thank you, my dear friend. By the way, I'm looking forward to the video you'll make.
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Please refresh my memory. What video topic are you interested in?
I meant this post of yours:
They claim it has a WebDAV server application so it should work as long as it is compliant with the WebDAV specs. They no longer make it so if there's a problem there likely wouldn't be any support.
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What specifically are you referring to for software that has a built-in webdav server?
Rclone/Roundsync can both serve files over the network using the webdav protocol. I haven't personally tried it but I will put it on my to-do list.
In theory you should be able to share your PC files from Joplin using rclone for windows serve feature.
Until I test it I can't say whether or not the Android client for Joplin can select webdav as it's synchronization choice and have it work. After Wednesday when my schedule frees up, I will try it.
I have only used http file serving to date.
I just turned my phone into a webdav server and was able to map a drive to it from Windows, so perhaps Joplin will work too. 
You would probably want to turn your PC into a webdav server, and then tell your mobile joplin to use webdav sync to the PC. I will test this after wednesday.
These options should work for those who absolutely don't want to put their files on a Cloud Server. A Cloud Server is easier and available 24/7 from all of your devices.
It was the Zyxel NAS326 mentioned in an earlier post. I use Synology myself.
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I'm a toy lover and have over 10 "devices" if you count Android phones and tablets and a couple of Windows laptops. I have only 2 devices (phones) that have access to the cloud. None of the Android things even have Google accounts on them. So, my devices have 24/7 access to my local network only. One PC connects to the internet by tethering to a phone. The rest are quite happy to remain offline. I tried SyncThing to keep other than Joplin files consistent across devices but never had much luck with it. The NAS cured that issue and everything now keeps itself in sync with the NAS.
btw. I'm retired so these things really are just toys. 
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And if you are not technically Savvy enough to install a network attached server or you just want to keep it simple with a PC and a phone you can probably use and I'm not going to say yes until I test it, rclone to turn the PC into a web dev server and you can install it as a service so that it runs automatically when the computer boots and you log in so you don't need to interact with it at all and then your phone can run Roundsync which is rclone on Android. You configure it to connect to the PC using the webdav protocol.
Then, you can either choose to synchronize on Demand by running roundsync and clicking the sync button or you can schedule it to run every 15 minutes or every hour or however often you want it to.
This is a simple solution for somebody that only wants to have their PC in their phone talk directly to each other without the cloud or a server.
I'm going to test this to make sure after Wednesday this week.
It's another toy to play with.
If you get bored you can give it a try even though you don't need it. It would just be for the heck of it.
For off the network synchronization between my phone and my computer and my Nas I use tailscale VPN peer-to-peer Mesh networking which is free.
no matter where I am my phone has direct access to my computers at home over an encrypted connection that does not require me to open ports on my router. Tailscale took no more than 15 minutes for me to install and configure on my phone and two computers. Actually three because of it's on my Nas too.
OK. I found rclone (AKA RCX) from fdroid and installed it on my phone. Config was simple and it seems amazingly fast to access my NAS. When I say the config was simple though I should qualify that by saying I already knew how to connect WebDAV to my NAS. A new user might not, so the URL may be a problem. In the case of a Synology NAS for strictly local access it would be . . .
http://192.168.1.xxx:5005/SharedVolumeName
I'll look for that "roundsync" you mentioned and see how that goes. I can't see either being of much use in the Joplin environment as it already does WebDAV but I've got lots of other stuff that could benefit.
Oops. Couldn't find roundsync so I re-read your post and rclone IS roundsync. Sync doesn't seem to work on my phone, complaining it has no Wi-Fi connection (I turned off mobile data so Wi-Fi is the only connection) and since Joplin really has no use for that sync I'm not going to spend a lot of time with it. It's a great remote file manager though.