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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Multipeer Connectivity - number of devices that can be connected to a service?
I was learning about Multipeer Connectivity framework of iOS from the tutorial site http://www.ralfebert.de/tutorials/ios-swift-multipeer-connectivity/ .
The example provided was really useful to understand the concept, in which, the devices simply…

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Where is the Bonjour COM library?
I've downloaded and installed the Bonjour SDK for Windows on my Win7 64bit machine.
I've tried to build both of the the projects in C:\Program Files\Bonjour SDK\Samples\CS. However they both reference Bonjour, causing me to get the following build…

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"The Bonjour service could not be resolved."
After updating to 6.3 whenever I launch Xcode I get this message.
Any idea how to get rid of this?
Edit: Why is this question on hold? Many people experience the very same issue..
Problem resolved. For a solution, please refer…

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How do I tell if a bonjour service is wi fi or bluetooth?
I am building an app that sends information between two iPhones. The app is working great but the one problem I am having is that I have no way of telling whether bonjour is choosing wi-fi or bluetooth to make the connection. I would like to allow…

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Why does Multi Peer Connectivity only work with MCAdvertiserAssistant and not MCNearbyServiceAdvertiser
I followed this tutorial on MultiPeerConnectivity (MCF) and list most tutorials online, they took the shortcut of using the services of MCAdvertiserAssistant and MCBrowserViewController
I tried implementing the same tutorial but with using…

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Does using bonjour on the iphone enable bluetooth automatically?
I am planning to a peer to peer app using bonjour for the iphone. There will be no wifi available and hence am relying on bluetooth. I know bonjour based services works over bluetooth in the abscense of wifi.
My question is, will bluetooth on the…
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IP Cameras and their supported protocol
Do the majority of IP cameras support RTSP?
Also, apart from using uPnP and Bonjour are there any other ways of detecting IP cameras on the local network?

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Connect Mac with iPhone using bonjour
I am trying to make a connection using bonjour and bluetooth between my mac and my iPhone.
I´ve been reading a bit and from these sites I have learned that I cannot use NSNetService as I did on my first attempt.
Bonjour over bluetooth WITHOUT…

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bytesWritten, but other device never receives NSStreamEventHasBytesAvailable event
I have set up a Bonjour network between an iPhone and a Mac.
The user chooses the iPhone’s net service in a table presented in the Mac, and a pair of streams are created and opened on both sides.
The iPhone starts by sending a code (an integer) to…

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Phonegap Bonjour/Zeroconf or Websocket IP Discovery from HTML5
I am trying to implement a Phonegap (HTML5) application which connects to a Websocket server (running in an embedded device, also has Bonjour service) to exchange data within home network.
I would like to know the best possible way of detecting the…

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iOS / Mac Bonjour service not found on network
I have an iOS app that publishes a Bonjour service. On my network, the Mac app recognizes the service and everything runs smoothly. On some networks however, the Bonjour service is not "seen" by the Mac. I can't reproduce this on my own network. …

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how to start a conversation with bonjour client knowing its name@host:port?
I am working on a project of P2P instant messenger, like ichat, but just for LAN.
I use jmdns library for service discovering, and test with pidgin and log in as a Bonjour user. as so far,the service _presence._tcp.local. is well discovered,
then…

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Apple Bonjour: how can I tell which published service is my own?
I have two iOS devices finding each other successfully using the Bonjour API, but since they are both simultaneously publishing and browsing, they also see themselves appearing in the list of available services. There must be some bit of information…

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Creating a Bonjour AirPrint service in iOS device
So I figured out that to publish (announce the service) to an iOS device as a printer, I use NSNetService and set the type to _ipp._tcp.
But in order to be recognized as an AirPrint printer the requirements include:
AirPrint uses IPP for print…

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streaming images over bonjour between two iOS device
My goal is to stream images captured by AVCpatureInput from one iOS device to another via bonjour.
Here is my current method:
1) Capture frame from video input
- (void)captureOutput:(AVCaptureOutput *)captureOutput…

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