Remote Host connection via RCP

vvvv beta question
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Hi,

I´m trying to connect to a RCP-Server via Remote-Client on another device using the same network.
There was no problems connecting using localhost and 127.0.0.1 as host-address, but as soon as I try using another IP in the same network, I can´t establish a connection.
Even using the IP (192.168.1.100 in this case) on the same computer the rabbit is running on doesn´t work. Switching to the IP of my WiFi-Adapter doesn´t work either.

  • Windows Firewall is off
  • AV is off
  • Port (10000) is open
  • Router Firewall is off

Still no luck!

Am I missing anything?

Cheers, C

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is this with beta40?

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Yes it is

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Are you sure you don’t have an antivirus running, or something that can block?
Is remotes are pinging each other?
Have you try to use MAC address instead?

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Yes, I’m sure.
I deactivated my third party AV, Windows Defender firewall, the routers firewall.
I can ping my local network-device via IP, my iPhone via PC, my PC via iPhone.
Mac-Address as hostname in browser doesn´t work either…
The only thing running is localhost/127.0.0.1

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Gee this one contribution is hardest among other to find ;] Do you have link to it?

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@antokhio afaik the nodes ship with vvvv: Rabbit (RCP), Stick (RCP) & Carrot (RCP)

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Yes, I think they are part of vvvv since Beta39.

For now I´m using mqtt instead, which works for me as well but sports a little bit more effort.

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so let’s try to be very specific. here is what i do:

  • run beta40, open Rabbit helppatch
  • on same PC run firefox, open the webclient hit “Connect”
    → works
  • run beta40, open Rabbit helppatch, change 0.0.0.0 to actual IP (192.168.0.5)
  • on same PC run firefox, open the webclient, use actual IP as set in helppatch, hit “Connect”
    → works
  • run beta40, open Rabbit helppatch
  • on mobile on same wifi run firefox, open the webclient, use actual IP of PC running vvvv, hit “Connect”
    → works

regarding firefox:
note this message on the client:

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also note: latest update to firefox mobile doesn’t allow you to run about:config. so either use an older ff or use latest firefox beta, which still allows you to change the setting.

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Hi Joreg,

thx for the effort in the first place.

I used Chrome and Edge instead of FF on PC and Chrome/Safari on my phone.
Doesn´t work. There doesn´t seem to be a chrome://flags - item to allow insecure ws and the alert does only show the first paragraph of the Firefox-message you posted.

In the end it seems to have something to do with my PC or the routers settings.
I am not quite sure, what I am missing, though.
I checked any usual suspects like firewall-stuff etc.

I´ll be back to office tomorrow (home-office right now) and see, if I get it up and running in a different network and with another PC.

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I didn´t get rcp up and running by any means.
As I think, this problem needs a proper reinstall of my pc and I am not able to do this, I ´ll gave up on rcp and switched to mqtt. This lead me to another problem I will post to another thread in a moment: seems like I can´t connect to a secure mqtt broker within vvvv :-(

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After installing Update 2004 today, I now can connect to rabbit within firefox using my IP.
Still no luck using any other device within my network, though.

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what you mean with “update 2004”?
and you tried from another PC in the same network with FF and the mentioned https flag enabled?

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Windows Functional Update 2004 :-)

I just used tablet and telephone with different browsers and didn´t get any connection, as this is, what i´d need to be able to use. I switched to mqtt instead and besides having some problems with ssl it´s working fine. Couldn´t figure out, what the problem using rcp was in the end, but that´s kinda okay at the moment.

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did you try mobile “firefox beta” as i described above? it still allows you to run about:config to set the mentioned https flag. would be interesting to hear if that works for you.

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You need to allow insecure connections, this actually pretty good case study why any web server still allow that but the one started on vvvv, I think vvvv side should provide some more headers to browser

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@joreg currently waiting for a beta-key for testdrive to be able to use ff beta in my iPhone and I am setting up an old android to check back either.

@anthokhio actually not, as I did set all the possible flags before the update and it didn´t work then. It´s more like a detective story now. ;-)

As it seems to correspond with my other question concerning secure websocketbased mqtt:
wouldn´t the right way to go be trying to find possibilities to use secure connections?
I am not the one to really know, but secure websocket seems to be a possible thing in IoT via mqtt
At least Chrome doesn´t seem to be going back to allow insecure connections.
And that´s quite a wide spread browser. So if you want to use this for let´s say an audience to poll or control some stuff, it won´t work the way it does right now…

…doesn´t mean it´s not a problem with my network settings being f§$%&ed up too in this case… ;-)

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absolutely! the right way to go about this is figure out secure websocket support for rcp. it is only that there was no time yet to do this. just in case: rcp is all opensource, so if you have the means…we accept pullrequests!

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Thats way beyond my personal capabilities tbh.
I´m still more the creative guy when it comes to creative technologies. :-/

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we now have the webclient up on a non-https url, so this should at least get rid of the https-related problems:

http://client.rabbitcontrol.cc