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UWA week 19 (1st semester, week 10) ↓

project Struggling to connect 2 computers on the same network (all 5)

11:09am Thu 9th May, Thomas M.

I am also having problems communicating between devices on the same network (e.g. UnifiIOT). I was developing the python code in WSL2 but after not being able to connect to the server from my phone, I decided to try just running the server program directly on Windows. All my efforts thus far have been to no avail as I am only able to connect to a server from the same device it is hosted on.

When the server code starts on UnifiIOT, it prints something to the effect of

<socket.socket fd=340, family=2, type=1, proto=0, laddr=('0.0.0.0', 4001)>
<socket.socket fd=316, family=2, type=2, proto=0, laddr=('0.0.0.0', 4002)>
172.17.X.X

which I think suggests that it should be accessible at 172.17.X.X:4001 from any device on the same network. Maybe there is something I am missing, but it would be good if anyone who has managed to get connectivity to let me know how you did it.