Re: [Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP

2018-10-02 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 08:14:01 PDT coroberti . wrote: > Hi, > 1. As Sean has mentioned, firewall settings that do not allow broadcasts > could be the case. > > 2. Yet another case could be: QHostAddress::Broadcast. > It's so-called All-Networks-Broadcast (255.255.255.255) > and normally

Re: [Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP

2018-10-02 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 2 October 2018 06:43:39 PDT Jason H wrote: > I have an app (Desktop) that I want it to know about other running instances > on the local network. I figured UDP broadcast was a natural choice. I tried > it, but I never saw anything but my own (local) packets. There's quite a > few

Re: [Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP

2018-10-02 Thread Michael Jackson
What you want is this: https://github.com/nitroshare/qmdnsengine Don't reinvent the wheel if you don't have to. MIT licensed. No relation to the project at all. -- Michael Jackson | Owner, President BlueQuartz Software [e] mike.jack...@bluequartz.net [w] www.bluequartz.net

Re: [Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP

2018-10-02 Thread coroberti .
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 5:02 PM Murphy, Sean wrote: > > > I have an app (Desktop) that I want it to know about other running instances > > on the local network. I figured UDP broadcast was a natural choice. I tried > > it, > > but I never saw anything but my own (local) packets. There's quite a

Re: [Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP

2018-10-02 Thread Reinhardt Behm via Interest
On Tuesday 02 October 2018 15:43:39 Jason H wrote: > I have an app (Desktop) that I want it to know about other running instances > on the local network. I figured UDP broadcast was a natural choice. I tried > it, but I never saw anything but my own (local) packets. There's quite a > few

Re: [Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP

2018-10-02 Thread Murphy, Sean
> I have an app (Desktop) that I want it to know about other running instances > on the local network. I figured UDP broadcast was a natural choice. I tried > it, > but I never saw anything but my own (local) packets. There's quite a few > stackoverflow questions, but none used Qt. I'm wondering

Re: [Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP

2018-10-02 Thread Jason H
); qDebug() << Q_FUNC_INFO << QHostInfo::localHostName().toLocal8Bit(); } > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2018 at 9:43 AM > From: "Jason H" > To: "interestqt-project.org" > Subject: [Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP > > I have an app (D

[Interest] Simple device discovery using UDP

2018-10-02 Thread Jason H
I have an app (Desktop) that I want it to know about other running instances on the local network. I figured UDP broadcast was a natural choice. I tried it, but I never saw anything but my own (local) packets. There's quite a few stackoverflow questions, but none used Qt. I'm wondering if it's