Receiving UDP multicast packets on Hololens

TakouhTakouh ✭
edited November 2018 in Questions And Answers

Hi,

Is Hololens able to receive UDP multicast packets by default? Or is there a setting which makes that happen?

I have a Unity application which uses a udp multicast message passing system. The udp multicast message passing system is built into a .NET dll. The dll is linked to the application and it works fine on a desktop.
However when I deploy this application on Hololens, I don't receive any error, but I do not receive any messages. I am wondering if this is because the Hololens drops udp multicast packets or if it is due to the dll not being built against UWP.

I would appreciate any input on this.

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  • mtaultymtaulty ✭✭

    I think that you can. If I remember right, I used UDP multicasting as the basis of how devices could find each other a network for a shared holograms type solution.

    I wrote it up here although I can't promise that it's any good or suitable for any particular purpose nor that it hasn't got a little out of date with respect to current SDK versions.

    In my case, I shared some source code which I then compiled both for .NET 3.5 and for the UWP and I ended up building that into a console app, a 2D XAML based app and a 3D Unity based app and sending messages back and forth.

    You might want to check your application manifest to ensure that it has the right capabilities - e.g. I suspect "Private Networks" is needed to allow for multicasting around your local network. I noticed that I wrote down that I did this when writing the 2nd post in that series.

    I hope that helps and good luck with your code here :smile:

  • AmirTakouhAmirTakouh ✭

    Thank you for your response!

    I am able to send and receive UDP multicasts to and from Hololens. However, the connection performance is quite dismal. The round-trip time for every sent package increases over time from a few milliseconds to tens of seconds and there is a considerable number of message losses.
    The very same code, works perfectly fine on other platforms (Desktop Windows 10, Mac, IOS).
    I would appreciate any input that would help me explain this problem which only happens with Hololens.

    Attached is a graph demonstrating the increasing round-trip time and message losses of the 2000 messages being sent.

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