Adobe AIR Development

[apman]

Hi,

I usually do my debugging over WIFI, which works fine, but as I'm travelling right now I'd like to be able to debug via USB too, which I can currently only get to work when I switch my firewall completely off. When the firewall is on, I can deploy to my PlayBook via USB, but the debugger connection always fails.

FlashBuilder tells me to open port 7935, but unfortunately in Windows 7 you have to specify more details (inbound/outbound, TCP/UDP,) which I'm not sure about:

There are already a few potentially relevant inbound rules that FlashBuilder itself has configured:

- allow FB to use TCP on any port

- allow FB to use UDP on any port

- allow any program to use TCP on 7935

I have tried adding an outbound rule for TCP via 7935 - but it makes no difference

Following another post on a related topic, I also tried adding rules for 8000 and 443, but so far no luck.

Does anybody know more about what kind of rule I would need or how I could track where exactly the blocked connection is *trying* to get through, so that I can open it up then ...?

Thanks

Anna

[dmalik]

Hi,

Sorry to hear about your troubles with your firewall. I have never had any troubles connecting to usb, and have tested on a few different setups. 

One thing I can recommend is to make sure that you have the latest version of Desktop Software running while your PlayBook is connected. You can download it here.

If that doesn't help please let us know what firewall you're dealing with as well as if you have any antivirus software installed.

Regards,

Dustin

[apman]

Hi Dustin,

thainks for looking into this!  I just installed the latest Desktop Software from your link & tried with it running, but no change. The app starts up on the PlayBook alright, but then asks for the 'correct' IP address of the debug host. But I know that 169.254.0.2 *is* correct, because when I turn my firewall off, it works fine.

The firewall is just the built in Windows Firewall that comes with Windows 7 (64bit).

Thanks

Anna

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[dmalik]

Ok I have only tested with antivirus software installed. Both Symanctec and McAfee I've had no problems with. 

Have you tried 169.254.0.1? This is the default IP for USB. 

If you go to debug configurations and click the configure device button, select USB and click "Debug Token Details" are you able to get a connection with your PlayBook?

Regards,

Dustin

[apman]

hm, I don't have the option to explicitely select USB, nor anythink like "Debug Token Details", which makes me think you're probably looking at FlashBuilder 4.6, right?   I'm still on 4.5 ...  - so maybe I should finally make that update and see if it solves the problem

(I am using the default IP (169.254.0.1) for the PlayBook, which then it assigns 169.254.0.2 to the connected PC, the debug host. I can actually see the PlayBook listed as a DHCP server when I do  ipconfig /all  - so I think that's all working ... )

Anyway, I'll look into the FlashBuilder 4.6 update - I just kept putting it off ("if it ain't broke, don't fix it ..."), but I guess this issue would be one more incentive :-)

Thanks for your help

Anna

[dmalik]

Oh ok, ya hopefully FB 4.6 will solve the issues you're running into

Just to note FB 4.6 is one of the system requirements for the latest SDK - https://developer.blackberry.com/air/documentation/ww_air_getting_started/Using_Adobe_FB_ms_1965666_...

[apman]

ah, then it's definitely time for the update!  I just always shy away from the inevitable downtime and tearing my hair out ... but thanks for the link, hopefully that should make it fairly painless :-)