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Does anybody know how to communicate Hololens whit a non-windows device?
Hello, I'm a beginner on coding Hololens on Unity, and I'm trying to link communication between an Hololens and an Android device. I read that to establish communication, we have to launch a SharingService and the client has to contain a SharingClient.dll that is not supported by Android so I tried to establish a simple communication by Socket using UnityOSC library that I found on internet, I'm using the sharignTest scene that use the sharing prefab given by HoloToolkit. Althoug I established the first connection, when I try to send a simple message my Server is no able to understand and unpack this message. Does anybody knows if I'm missing something or if there is another way to make this kind of communication? I would appreciated it.
Thanks and Sorry about my english.
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To communicate between Unity apps running on different platforms you can use Unity's UNET networking.
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Hello @stepan_stulov I've already tried to use the HLAPI Network and the LLAPI Network offered by Unity but it seems that those don't work on Hololens. Have you ever tried? Do you have an exemplary code to share? This would be awsome!
@IrdThales
They work perfectly fine for me. Have you enabled corresponding Capabilities in the project settings, like InternetClient and InternetClientServer?
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Hi @stepan_stulov I've just activated the Capabilities in my proyect but it still doesn't work. Would you mind if you show me an example? I will be greatful
@IrdThales
I think you would want to be more specific to what you mean with "doesn't work" in order for the community to be able to help you.
As far as I understand you're trying to use UNET on one end, and another networking solution/protocol on another? Usually you would want to have UNET-powered networking on each end of your network topology or conform to some kind of specification if the parts have to match. It seems that you're simply mixing different networking APIs and it's surprising the combination works at all.
It's also unclear to me to why you need sharing service in order to exchange simple messages. Would you clarify on that?
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@stepan_stulov
I'm sorry if I didn't make myself understood, you were right UNET-networking works for Hololens platform and I was mixing the communication protocols, otherwise I was able to send messages between different devices with HLAPI. Thank you.