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Wi-fi connectivity only works immediately after application is launched #35

Open Sloop0 opened 2 years ago

Sloop0 commented 2 years ago

Since installing Altserver, I've consistently had an issue where it won't refresh in the background at all. I've noticed that when I try to manually refresh via my phone, it will return the error message 'Failed to refresh apps' consistently. The only way I've been able to get it to refresh over wifi is by closing any currently running instances of Altserver, launching it again, and immediately performing a refresh. If I try again a few minutes later, it no longer works.

Altserver is allowed in Windows firewall, and I haven't had connectivity issues like this with any other applications that I access via the local network. Any idea what might be going on?

JJTech0130 commented 2 years ago

It might have something to do with the Bonjour advertiser falling asleep/inactive… thought I saw an issue about that. Someone wrote a script to restart it iirc?

Sloop0 commented 2 years ago

It might have something to do with the Bonjour advertiser falling asleep/inactive… thought I saw an issue about that. Someone wrote a script to restart it iirc?

Thanks for the quick response! Nothing's coming up when I search for "Bonjour" or "script" in the issues. The Bonjour service was already running, but I tried restarting it, and that didn't seem to help.

JJTech0130 commented 2 years ago

Ah. Maybe I'm misremembering? I'll look around and see if I can find it.

JJTech0130 commented 2 years ago

https://trello.com/c/mx0PzcrT/15-enhancement-altserver-could-not-find-this-device-error-mitigation

JJTech0130 commented 2 years ago

@Sloop0 It's apparently not Bonjour itself, it's "Apple Mobile Device Services". Apparently their working on either a daemon to restart it, or bypassing/re-implementing it entirely. See the above trello issue. There doesn't seem to be a fix, for now.

Sloop0 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the link, but it doesn't look like that's the issue I'm having, or at least it's not the only one. Restarting the "Apple Mobile Device Service" service is causing the phone to temporarily show up in the Windows right-click menu under "Install AltStore", but "Refresh all" via the phone app still doesn't work.

JJTech0130 commented 2 years ago

Hum... that's weird. I don't use the Wi-Fi refresh myself, I always use a cable, so I can't really tell you.

JJTech0130 commented 2 years ago

The discovery appears to be inherently unreliable, until they implement their new version themselves. (mDNS/Bonjour isn't very stable -- would be much better if it could cache the IP)