Questions tagged [bonjour]

Bonjour is Apple's implementation of Zeroconf, a service discovery protocol. It can be used to find services on a network and also to publish services to be found by other Zeroconf clients.

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How to sync an application state over multiple iphones in the same network?

I am developing an iPhone application that allows to basically click through a series of actions. These series are predefined and synced with a common configuration server. That app might be running on multiple devices at the same time. All devices…
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NsdManager discovers, immediately loses and re-discovers same service after WiFi is re-enabled on Android phone

In my Android app I have to show a list of available services on the network published by another machine (RPi 3B con Raspbian Stretch) using avahi 0.6.32 (Bonjour/zeroconf daemon for Linux). I obtain the list on Android phone using NsdManager.…
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Bonjour: how to configure macOS 10.14 to reach subdomains within machine.local domain?

Developing services on a macOS 10.14 machine, we would like to reach each different service with a subdomain (akin to what will happen in production). Assume the machine's name is "bar", then we can access it with the bar.local url. Yet, we cannot…
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Sending large data over bonjour

I currently have a method that sends data through Bonjour. The problem is that my data is limited to 1000 kB. I know that if I want to send larger data I need to break it in to packets. But this raises a question of how do I prevent packets from…
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Any API to share data between two iphones/ipod touches/ipads? (Except GameKit)

is there any framework/api to easily to find other devices and share data between them? Not gamekit please. And bonjour would be great but it is to complex to build..Mayby there's any API that uses Bonjour? EDIT: Is there any API/Framework that is…
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Rails app accessible from LAN machine using IP address, but not Bonjour name?

I'm developing a web-based application for iOS devices and want to access it from my Home Screen (via an icon). I'm able to see the site from an external device by going to http://10.0.1.4:3000, however when I try http://computername.local:3000,…
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I am trying to generate dns-sd query for _universal._sub._ipp.tcp.local, is there a way to request sub query

I am trying to generate dns-sd query for _universal._sub._ipp.tcp.local, is there a way to request subquery. ciscos-Mac-mini:~ cisco$ dns-sd -Z _ipps._tcp,_universal Browsing for _ipps._tcp,_universal DATE: ---Thu 20 Sep…
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publish via bonjour on localhost

i've two apps one of them runs an http server and the accesses it. I do not want to hard code the URL or the port in app which is client so I want to publish via bonjour the code for publishing is following NSString *publishingDomain = @"local.";…
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Opensource library similar to avahi

I need to write an application on windows that connects to avahi running on Linux.I need opensource tools that i can use on windows os. Im aware of BONJOUR.But it is tied to apple licenses... Im not aware of tools.Can somebody suggest…
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iOS - Sending files over classical bluetooth

We're developing a mobile app that will need to communicate over Bluetooth with one of our devices. We can use BLE for the communication (propriety protocol) but at some point we also need to transfer a file from the iOS app to the device. The file…
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How to make Windows' Bonjour resolve foo.bar.local subdomains created by Avahi

Why can't Windows' Bonjour (the Apple one) automatically resolve foo.bar.local, when Ubuntu and macOS can? foo.local instead is resolved without issues by every OS. Here's my avahi-daemon.conf: [server] host-name=foo domain-name=bar.local ... This…
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NSNetService Bonjour Mimicking iPhoto

I am trying to mimic iPhoto sharing and have gotten as far as publishing the service using the iPhoto service name "_dpap._tcp.". iPhoto sees my bogus "share", but it is grayed out. I'm watching network traffic to see if iPhoto is looking for…
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how to integrate Bonjour in Android Application

can anybody have any idea how to integrate Bonjour in Android Application. any help will be appreciative. thanks a lot.
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How do I send values from an iOS app to a Mac app?

I would like to send a stream of values from an iPhone app using the accelerometer, to an associated Mac app. I currently have it working with Bonjour, as per this question but there is no user authentication with this, so I don't see Apple being ok…
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CMake/cygwin and find_library not finding .lib library

I would like to use in my cygwin project Bonjour library for Windows. I have installed this library and I have dnssd.lib file but CMake doesn't find this library. If I use this code: find_path(BONJOUR_PATH dns_sd.h PATHS…
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