Running appium on different port. Console not connecting

[Telmo_Cardoso]

I started appium server with

appium -p 4725 -bp 4726 -U 9f....

Then I try to run

arc

with appium.txt

[caps]
platformName = "android"
app = "/Users/...."
deviceName = "Android"
port = 4725
udid = "9f..."
bootstrapPort = 4726

The final result is always

ERROR: Unable to connect to Appium. Is the server running?

What am I doing wrong?

version:

arc -v
appium_console: v1.0.1
appium_lib: v4.1.0

appium -v
1.2.2

Reference link: https://github.com/appium/ruby_console/issues/34

[Telmo_Cardoso]

bootstraponline already answered.

@tfcardoso port isn't a desired capability, it's an appium_lib client option.

[caps]
platformName = "android"
app = "/Users/...."
deviceName = "Android"
udid = "9f..."
bootstrapPort = 4726

[appium_lib]
port = 4725

[juhlila]

so, what should I do to make it work?

[Aleksei]

1) start appium instances with different ports
e.g. when appium installed with "npm":

appium --log-level error --port 4724 --command-timeout 120 --session-override
appium --log-level error --port 4726 --command-timeout 120 --session-override

2) start driver with appropriate port e.g. for MAC and Android client:

String baseURL = "http://0.0.0.0:";
String minorURL = "/wd/hub";
driver_1 = new AndroidDriver(new URL(baseURL+"4724"+minorURL), capabilities);
driver_2 = new AndroidDriver(new URL(baseURL+"4726"+minorURL), capabilities);

[TuHuynh]

port 4724

I don't think we should use this port number.

[Aleksei]

Why? I use this combination every day in test suite when test uses 2 phones.

[TuHuynh]

Yes, socket always use this port. Ofcourse you can avoid any prob when using --bootstrap-port flag. I think we better avoid that in case of missing.

[JohnOSu]

I used bootstraponlines suggestion, and setting the port in appium.txt works just fine for me. However, I would like to be able to set the address in appium.txt as well. I tried server_url = "10.22.58.7" and arc gives a 'rescue in merge' : both URI are relative (URI::BadUTIError)

Does anyone know how to set arc to use appium using a specified address?

[JohnOSu]

@bootstraponline Thanks! I tried server_url = "http://10.22.58.7:4725/wd/hub" and that works perfectly.