VS2015 Cordova Tools configuration for ios remote build agent not valid - taco-remote package not found

Question

I followed the steps to set up a remote build at:https://taco.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/ios-guide/#stack

I am able to pair from visual studio but when I try to set ios configuration from Tools for apache cordova I receive the following error response on the apple machine:

Last login: Mon Apr 11 11:31:07 on ttys000
Johns-Mac-mini:~ johnbowyer$ vcremote --secure false
vcremote
Copyright (C) 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
1.0.8

VC build library initialized.
Remote build server listening on [http] port 3030
GET /modules/taco-remote 404 7ms
GET /modules/taco-remote 404 2ms
GET /modules/taco-remote 404 0ms

From Visual Studio I receive the error: Unable to connect to remote IOS Build server. Underlying exceptions. The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

It appears that this person had a similar problem but I am not clear what they did as a fix that I am not doing since I am using vcremote: VS2015RTM Cordova Tools configuration for ios remote build agent no longer valid - taco-remote package not found
It appears that this person had a similar problem but it seems they
may have switch to a different mac which I don't have the option to
do:
Visual Studio Cordova, building iOS package via remote agent issues

The results of npm taco-remote are

Last login: Mon Apr 11 11:35:50 on ttys002
Johns-Mac-mini:~ johnbowyer$ npm taco-remote --version
3.8.6

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 27 '16 at 20:35

In your initial post you were using the vcremote package to launch the remote build, which is only for use with Visual C++ projects. It looks like you fixed it by using the remotebuild package (npm install -g remotebuild), which is the one you want to use for Cordova projects. It may be a bit confusing since both tools use some shared source behind the scenes.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '16 at 16:49

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Not sure why but running the following command appeared to resolve this issue:

johnbowyer$ remotebuild -test

answered Apr 11 '16 at 16:49

John Bowyer

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This actually helped me because even though I had configured not to use secure mode, when I ran 'remotebuild -test' I saw that somehow my remotebuild was configured with secure mode.. So I just switched my configuration on VS studio to secure mode and defined the Security PIN which was shown after running the command. – Bartho Bernsmann Aug 14 '16 at 01:54

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 05 '17 at 21:56

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This worked for me:

When I ran remotebuild -test, it complained that no server modules were selected, and went on to default configuration "modules" to taco-remote

edited Jan 05 '17 at 21:56

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answered Jan 05 '17 at 21:36

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VS2015 Cordova Tools configuration for ios remote build agent not valid - taco-remote package not found

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