Before you say anything, I know this is not the best place to ask about Meta-specific problems, but I have already tried reaching out multiple times on the Meta Developers forums and have gotten ignored every time. I also submitted a bug report some time ago and have still not gotten any acknowledgement. I don’t understand why though, Meta has clearly put a lot of effort into their development tools otherwise. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any third-party package for Unity that looks as polished as Meta’s XR SDK. I just wish I could actually work with it.
The problem is that you can enable ADB over Wi-Fi on the device while it is connected via cable, but that connection then only lasts for a few minutes. Usually it’s not even long enough to push a single build from Unity, so you have to keep the cable connected anyways. After the wireless connection is dropped you have to connect the cable again each time you need to push a build over ADB, and the Quest won’t even show up in MQDH even though you can connect to your system over Air Link or Windows Mixed Reality Link just fine.
I also tried disabling the proximity sensor to force the Quest to stay awake, but even that didn’t help. You still completely lose connection after a few minutes. I also tried connecting over 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz to see if that would make a difference, it doesn’t.
This is what my MQDH looks like directly after enabling ADB over Wi-Fi and what it looks like a few minutes later:
You can ignore the “Update required” status in the Link section, that does not have anything to do with the connection problem. My Link app actually is up to date, you have to switch both the app and the Quest to the v74 preview which I do not want to do for production development. I tried anyways just to see if it would make a difference, and it does not. Still disconnects immediately on v74.
I would highly appreciate some input from other XR developers so I can judge if developing for Meta is simply a nightmare or if someone has actually managed to set up a stable wireless workflow. I feel pretty lost since nobody in Meta Developer forums ever answers your questions and there are no existing threads about these kinds of issues either.