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Feature request: Return devices connected via wifi.
Return devices connected via wifi.
From documentation: "Note that only devices connected via a USB cable will be returned. Devices connected via Wi-Fi will not be returned. The main reason we do this is because you can only relay the syslog from USB connected devices. This restriction be lifted in the future."
node-ios-device@3 supports this! :)
There are limitations though. We can't port forward over WiFi which means we can't see logs. Installing apps works though.
Sounds nice 👏. Personally I would be ok with this, as long as you are informed that there is a limitation with logs. Is it an easy fix to make it work?
The readme makes mention of the limitation with the forward()
API. I should point out this port forwarding is for general use, but was designed for debug logging exclusively used by Titanium apps.
If I recall correctly, back in the day, iOS would let apps write to syslog and that's how logging worked in Titanium apps. iOS had a syslog relay service that node-ios-device
would use. Then iOS switched how app logging worked and app logging was no longer written to syslog. I wrote a debug log server that ran in the background of a Titanium app for the Titanium CLI can connect to and get log messages. It created a real socket listening on a real port. That's where the port forwarding came in.
I would still categorize this as a limitation of the forward()
API. Apps and libraries that use node-ios-device
would likely detect if the device is USB or WiFi, then if USB, use forward()
. If WiFi, get somehow get the device's IP address and directly connect to it over WiFi.