Hi Michael,
I trying to figure out how Zeroconf is supposed to work,
given the
networking services that the module currently supports.
Perhaps I don't
understand mDNS well enough, but don't we need some
means to broadcast
our presence, separate from the network?
I was able to run the ZeroConf Browser on my Android
phone (Google
Pixel2, latest code), and it did discover the module.
But that was only
when the module and phone were both connected by wifi to
the home
network. When it was running in AP mode, with the phone
connected to
the home network, there is no way for the phone to see
the mDNS service
announcement packets.
I did a wireless trace of the wifi beacons, thinking it
might be
broadcast in there, but didn't find anything
service-oriented other than
the usual stuff. The only wifi adapter that I could get
to cooperate
with me today was a really old one (11b-only), so
perhaps there's
something at an 11g/n level that I can't see?
I'm thinking we need some out-of-band channel for the
broadcasts, for
example, Bluetooth. Isn't there a service there for
this purpose? How
is this supposed to work?
Greg
Michael Balzer wrote:
Zeroconf / mDNS allows
to address the module using the name
"<moduleid>.local", but is not supported on all
systems. It should work on iOS, but I can't test
that. It doesn't work on Android 7, so is not usable
as a general solution.
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