How to make appium session remotely with a device which is on another machine

Question

Use Case

I have one mobile device connected on a laptop whose IP is 10.132.222.23. Now I want to make appium session with the device from another laptop.

This is possible when we do it from Appium Desktop, but I want to explore a command line option to do the same.

What I did

from my laptop, I tried to run the command

appium -a 10.132.222.23 -p 4734

However, this fails. I believe that I am missing some essentials parameter to make the session.

machine where appium server is running and machine where device is connected are on same network ? — Amit Jain, Mar 14 '19 at 13:50

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '19 at 06:04

In your remote laptop(one that is connected with mobile device) start the appium server:

appium -a 127.0.0.1 -p 4723 --session-override

Find the ip address of remote laptop.

In your other laptop, initialize AppiumDriver and DesiredCapabilities

AppiumDriver driver;
DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
//add your capabilities

driver= new AndroidDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx:4723/wd/hub"), caps);

where xxx.xxx.xx.xx is the ip address of remote laptop.

How to make appium session remotely with a device which is on another machine

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