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dsnopek / anki-sync-server

A personal Anki sync server (so you can sync against your own server rather than AnkiWeb)
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Having trouble syncing with AnkiDroid #52

Closed colonelsmoothie closed 7 years ago

colonelsmoothie commented 7 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for working on this!

I've been trying to use anki-sync-server to see if I could sync to a collection on a personal server from my phone:

https://github.com/dsnopek/anki-sync-server

After much wrangling, I have been able to get the server running, so I can sync my Anki Desktop application to it. However, I've been having trouble getting my phone to sync with it using the following entries in the AnkiDroid Custom Sync server:

Sync url https://192.168.1.149:27701/

Media sync url https://192.168.1.149:27701/msync/

This IP address match what I have on my production.ini file and the mysyncserver.py plugin file. But when I try to sync with AnkiDroid on my home wifi, I am immediately getting a connection timeout error message, so I believe I may have missed something in configuring the server. However, the message takes less than a second to appear, so I don't think it's a matter of the connection taking too long, it seems to be denied altogether.

Can you please help me with this?

Thanks!

ninja33 commented 7 years ago

maybe you need check local firewall configuration.

colonelsmoothie commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried each of the following:

sudo ufw allow 27701

sudo ufw allow ssh

sudo ufw disable

AnkiDroid is still giving the same error for each one.

sudo ufw status Status: active

To Action From

27701 ALLOW Anywhere
22 ALLOW Anywhere
27701 (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
22 (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)

Is there anything else I can try?

ninja33 commented 7 years ago

Sorry, my mistake to describe it as firewall, actually, I mean network interface for inbound connection. 127.0.0.1 for desktop Anki is just loop-back interface, right? So you need enable inbound connection for local network. 192.168.1.0 mask:0.0.0.255 I don't think it's port issue as you mentioned above.

I am not familiar with Ubuntu command to config it. maybe, you can check #49

colonelsmoothie commented 7 years ago

Got it working! woohoo!

I tried connecting to the server with a laptop instead, which worked. Looked carefully and noticed that the server had 'http' instead of 'https'...changed AnkiDroid to match and got it to work!

silly me...

Thanks!