Unity Remote - Installed but not connecting

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I have Unity Remote installed on my iPod Touch (2nd gen) but when launched it says "Searching for web services…) and never connects.

I’ve tried everything I can think of but no success. My computer/WiFi setup is listed below. Any assistance is appreciated.

MY SETUP:

iMac with airport working and firewall disabled
iPod Touch with WiFi configured and working
LinkSYS Wireless-N router with WPA security configured and working.

All my computers run through the LinkSYS router on a local private IP network (172.16…) I have no problem seeing other computers on my network from my iMac.

Been using PCs for 18 yrs but Mac only 3 months, if there’s anything specific about the Mac setup that might cause this problem please advise.

Thanks

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hi-

you might want to try a direct connection between your iMac and iPod and see if that works.

Unity uses Apple’s bonjour to set up the connection. Some Routers / network setups don’t play well with bonjour in general.

-markus

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You should be able to connect quite easily via bonjour. My guess is you have something funky set up in your wireless router.

To test this, try creating a wireless network from your iMac (via the airport icon on your menu bar) and connect the iPod Touch to that. See if you’re able to get a connection then. If not, your problem doesn’t seem to be network related.

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Thanks for the advise , I was able to connect to my iMac after creating a local AirPort network. Still no luck connecting through the router though.

If anyone has successfully connected through a wireless router please post the router settings you have configured.

Thanks :smile:

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After 2 more hours of resets, reboots, and reconfigures it finally works. Unfortunately, I can’t help anyone else experiencing the same problem since, I wound up right back at the same configuration (Mac, iPod, router) that didn’t work initially.

My only suggestion is, if your sure everything is configured properly, to reset/reboot everything until it works… Very frustrating

Thanks Kusako AngryAnt for the iMac direct connect suggestion. At least I know that’s a stable fallback if things stop working again.

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Good to hear you got it working.

Sounds like you had an issue with the cable modem and wireless router having conflicting DHCP routing. Basically the cable modem can assign IP addresses by itself, and a wireless router can also assign IP addresses. So it’s possible that your computer had an IP like 192.168.0.2 and the iPhone would have been assigned an IP from the wireless router, like 192.168.1.3. As a result, the iphone wasn’t seeing your computer. When you restarted and rebooted everything you got the wireless router on the same subnet as your computer, and so the iPhone was able to connect.

I know it’s confusing, I have a hard time understanding myself :smile:, but if someone else has this issue the key is to unplug everything, and plug in the modem first, then the wireless router, and then the computer. That should get everything assigned on the same DNS subnet. If you feel comfortable accessing the wireless router admin panel, you can disable DHCP on it. That way you won’t have the wireless router assigning IP addresses, and everything is done through the modem.

iBrent

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I have everything assigned static IPs on a private IP network behind the Linksys router/firewall. The Linksys also handles all dhcp requests on the network.

I never reset or rebooted the cable modem since it was working fine and never had any part in the communications between the devices on my private local network.

The Unity Remote app couldn’t see my iMac and my best guess as to why is: When I disabled the iMac firewall that configuration change wasn’t stored/set/whatever and the iMac remained unreachable to the app. Perhaps if I had rebooted my Mac as the first step in troubleshooting I could have saved a couple of hours. Just speculation since I have no idea what finally did the trick.