Mac with Soduto does not appear in KDE-Connect Android available devices

[AJAYK-01]

• The phone can connect to other devices like my Linux laptop and other android phone.
• Mac M1 Air on Ventura 13.4, with no firewall or vpn enabled.
• Tried all repos/forks of Soduto and even KDE-Connect Macos build, all seem to have the same issue.

Do help debug this issue if possible, I checked Console.app, and didn't find any errors.

[hellokuan]

Maybe an error occurred on your network.

[AJAYK-01]

I don't know, I tried with multiple networks, disabled all firewalls, no fix works. Even kdeconnect macos build has same issue, which led me to understand this is not soduto specific. I have totally given up on my Mac and Android pairing now, although it works between my Linux old laptop and Android.

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[sannidhyaroy]

Sorry for the late reply. Since, you mention that this issue is also prevalent on KDE Connect, I assume it has something to do with specifically your mac setup. The only instances when I noticed my mac wasn't being discovered by other KDE Connect devices was when I was connected through a VPN. Maybe something is causing your mac to be undiscoverable.

[AJAYK-01]

No vpn

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[undulattice]

Sorry to resurrect this issue, but did you manage to fix the problem?
I've only just discovered Soduto and it would be great to get it working properly!

Soduto installed my Mac and KDE Connect on my Pixel 7 Pro.
Devices do not recognise each other. Same wifi network (multiple networks tried), no VPN.

If I turn on the hotspot on the Pixel and connect to it directly, it works perfectly.

Any help greatly appreciated. :-)

[AJAYK-01]

Sorry to resurrect this issue, but did you manage to fix the problem?
I've only just discovered Soduto and it would be great to get it working properly!

Soduto installed my Mac and KDE Connect on my Pixel 7 Pro.
Devices do not recognise each other. Same wifi network (multiple networks tried), no VPN.

If I turn on the hotspot on the Pixel and connect to it directly, it works perfectly.

Any help greatly appreciated. :-)

Although my issue has not been fixed, your issue seems to be similar to something I had encountered before, while it was working for me.

Since soduto works on hotspot, it should work on wifi too if you manually add the device using IP in KDE connect. Just command click (or option click, I don't remember exactly) on the Wifi icon in Mac menu bar to get your device ip address, and add it in kdeconnect.

[undulattice]

Sorry to resurrect this issue, but did you manage to fix the problem?
I've only just discovered Soduto and it would be great to get it working properly!
Soduto installed my Mac and KDE Connect on my Pixel 7 Pro.
Devices do not recognise each other. Same wifi network (multiple networks tried), no VPN.
If I turn on the hotspot on the Pixel and connect to it directly, it works perfectly.
Any help greatly appreciated. :-)

Although my issue has not been fixed, your issue seems to be similar to something I had encountered before, while it was working for me.

Since soduto works on hotspot, it should work on wifi too if you manually add the device using IP in KDE connect. Just command click (or option click, I don't remember exactly) on the Wifi icon in Mac menu bar to get your device ip address, and add it in kdeconnect.

I tried that. No joy. :-(
Should the device appear in the list after manually adding it by IP? I just get "no devices".

[undulattice]

Just remembered, I did have to grant access for Soduto to something (may even have been a blank string?) when I connected to the Hotspot network. Haven't had that request for regular wifi though...

[undulattice]

So have just tried another wifi network, by accident as I had everything set up already, and it just worked!
So it seems to be some sort of restriction set on certain wifi networks, which is a bit of a shame.

Expect there's not much can be done about that?

[sannidhyaroy]

So have just tried another wifi network, by accident as I had everything set up already, and it just worked!
So it seems to be some sort of restriction set on certain wifi networks, which is a bit of a shame.

It's possible that the network you're having issue with has client isolation configured. It's hard for me to debug this exactly, if that's not the case.

[undulattice]

So have just tried another wifi network, by accident as I had everything set up already, and it just worked!
So it seems to be some sort of restriction set on certain wifi networks, which is a bit of a shame.

It's possible that the network you're having issue with has client isolation configured. It's hard for me to debug this exactly, if that's not the case.

I've gotten around the isolation problem by setting up hostnames on my VPN. Devices will now connect as long as they are online and connected to the VPN. :-)