When I try to run my Cordova app from Visual Studio 2015 on a Mac with remotebuild installed, I always get this in the Output window:
1>------ Build started: Project: Holmwoods.Cordova, Configuration: Debug iOS ------
1> Your environment has been set up for using Node.js 4.2.2 (x64) and npm.
1> ------ Ensuring correct global installation of package from source package directory: C:\PROGRAM FILES (X86)\MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 14.0\COMMON7\IDE\EXTENSIONS\APACHECORDOVATOOLS\packages\vs-tac
1> ------ Name from source package.json: vs-tac
1> ------ Version from source package.json: 1.0.28
1> ------ Package already installed globally at correct version.
1> ------ Cordova tools 5.4.1 already installed.
1> ------ Build Settings:
1> ------ Build Settings:
1> ------ <<snip>>
1> ------ Adding platform: ios
1>MDAVSCLI : warning : Applications for platform ios can not be built on this OS - win32.
1> <<snip>>
1> ------ Updating plugins
1> SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
It looks to me like it's trying to build and run the iOS app from Windows, even though I have configured the remotebuild agent under Tools > Options.
On the Mac, I don't see any requests coming in during build. I do see a GET request in the Terminal when I reconfigure the remote build agent in Visual Studio.