Hello and apologies in advance for the length of my message. I hope I have provided all the necessary information, this is my first post!
I am trying to set up a remote server to communicate between two MacBooks on the same wifi network. The Apple firewall is disabled on both machines. I am running all the code in SC IDE 3.11.2 on both machines.
When I follow the instructions from the Server Guide:
// on machine running the server
(
s.options.protocol = \tcp; // set to use tcp
s.options.bindAddress = "0.0.0.0"; // allow connections from any address
s.options.maxLogins = 2; // set to correct number of clients
s.boot;
)
// on remote machine connecting to server
(
o = ServerOptions.new;
o.protocol_(\tcp);
t = Server.remote(\remote, NetAddr("192.168.1.70", 57120), o); // set to correct address and port
t.addr.connect;
t.startAliveThread( 0 );
t.doWhenBooted({ "remote tcp server started".postln; t.notify; t.initTree });
)
On the remote machine, I get the error:
NetAddr-Connect failed with exception: connect: Connection refused
After this error, I tried adding
o.bindAddress = "0.0.0.0";
to the remote machine’s code and setting the clientID to 1 with:
t = Server.remote(\remote, NetAddr("192.168.1.70", 57120), o, 1);
but I get the same error.
When I follow the instructions from Server Help File
// example usage:
// on machine running the server
(
s.options.bindAddress = "0.0.0.0"; // allow connections from any address
s.options.maxLogins = 2; // set to correct number of clients
s.boot;
)
// on remote machine connecting to server
(
o = ServerOptions.new;
o.options.maxLogins = 2;
t = Server.remote(\remote, NetAddr("192.168.1.70", 57120), o); // set to correct address and port
// info about returned client ID should be posted in the post window
t.makeWindow; // make a window for monitoring
)
the remote machine posts
remote: setting clientID to 0.
→ remote
However, if I try to run something like
{ SinOsc.ar(440, 0, 0.2) }.play(t);
I get this:
WARNING: server ‘remote’ not running.
→ nil
Even though the machine running the server has been booted with the code above.
I also tried manually changing the clientID to 1 in this case after my initial attempt failed but that didn’t change anything.
Finally, when I follow the instructions from Multi-Client Setups
// on the machine where scsynth runs, it can be the default server.
// set the maximum number of client logins expected:
s.options.maxLogins = 8;
// now reboot the server, so that it will have maxLogins
s.reboot;
// from another sclang instance, log into scsynth:
s.options.maxLogins = 8;
// example NetAddr of the machine that runs scsynth on standard port
s.addr = NetAddr("168.192.1.70", 57120);
I get:
WARNING: server ‘localhost’ not running
→ nil
You will have to manually boot remote server.
Again, the server has been booted on the other machine.
I tried enabling port forwarding on my router settings for port 57120 UDP and TCP and verified in every case that that is the port the SC IDE is using. I also tried turning off the firewall on my router.
I am working on this with a couple of friends, and we have tried on Raspbian, Windows and Mac machines and we get the same behavior in all cases, so I assume I am missing something basic. Any help would be greatly appreciated!