Capacitor live reload error

Capacitor
1

Hy
I’m having problems to get the capacitor live reload working.

i run the local websever trough Vite

➜ Local: http://localhost:5173/
➜ Network: use --host to expose

ipconfig gives me

Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::208f:314e:bdf:da7e%18
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.8.110
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.8.1

in capacitor.config.ts i add

server: {
“url”: “http://192.168.8.110:5173”,
“cleartext”: true
}

i run

npx cap copy
npx cap run android

sometimes it opens the emulator without, sometimes with the following error

× Deploying app-debug.apk to emulator-5554 - failed!
[error] Selected hardware device emulator-5554
Installing
C:\Users\retok\Projects\happynotessveltedexiejscap\android\app\build\outputs\apk\debug\app-debug.apk…
Starting application activity happynote.app/happynote.app.MainActivity…
ADBs is unresponsive after 5000ms, killing server and retrying…
Error: Command failed: C:\Users\retok\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\platform-tools\adb -s
emulator-5554 shell am start -W -n happynote.app/happynote.app.MainActivity
adb.exe: device still authorizing

    at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:984:15)
    at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:538:14)
    at ChildProcess.exithandler (node:child_process:422:12)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:519:28)
    at maybeClose (node:internal/child_process:1105:16)
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:305:5)

then in the emulator it shows me the following after a while

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Any ideas what im doing wrong?
Thank you for your feedbacks.

2

Which command are you using to run with vite?

By default, vite only allows running in localhost, if you notice the first lines, it says Network: use --host to expose.

So if you add --host to the vite command you use, it would then expose the live reload server so it’s accessible from the network instead of only from localhost.

3

Hey Julio thanks for your reply and the hint.
Im runing npm run dev.
npm run dev --host dos not work, but therefore
npm run dev – --host is working fine.
in this blogpost someone explains the extra – needet for it to run.

so it works now. cool :slight_smile:

4

yeah, you can edit the dev npm script in the package.json to add the --host, or if you don’t edit the dev npm script in the package.json and pass it to the npm run dev in the terminal you need the extra -- before the --host