On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 18:48 +1100, Chris Samuel wrote: > On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 03:17:44 PM Andrew Greig wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > Hiya! > > > One of the reasons for the app was to enhance productivity by removing > > the "check my mobile, get some work done, check my mobile, maybe get > > some more work done, check my mobile, oh what the hell, I'll see if I > > can get to the next level in Angry Birds" routine. Now if you phone is > > safely ou of the way on charge, who cares about multicast. > > Makes sense. :-) > > > On the subject of multicast, since my Desktop is not wifi enabled, is > > that what is hampering the connection? > > Nope, my desktop is connected via a good old cable to the AP, plus there's a > blog article from September saying they stopped using multicast and went to > their own UDP broadcast system due to the Android Avahi implementation being > poor and because some APs were not sending on multicast properly. > > http://albertvaka.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/how-kde-connect-encryption-works/ > > Could it be that you've got some firewall rules on your desktop that might be > blocking these UDP packets? > > > I will try it on my Notebook, and see. > > Best of luck! > Chris
Hi Chris, thanks for the firewall tip. I shut it down, access obtained, now paired, added a rule about allowing multicast and it has remained connected. Thanks Andrew Greig _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
