Device Discovery¶

You can use the mDNS service included with our service to discover all online FIRERPA devices on the local network, along with their corresponding addresses, versions, and other information. You can even directly access services like the FIRERPA remote desktop in your browser using a domain name like {ro.serialno}.local. Note that using mDNS domain names may require your system to support it and your FIRERPA version to be >= 7.85. By default, the mDNS service is not started; you need to configure mdns.enable=true to enable it.

Discover All Devices¶

You can use the mdns-beacon tool library to quickly list all devices. First, run pip install mdns-beacon to install the tool. After installation, execute the following command. It will list all devices running FIRERPA on the current network. This feature may be affected by your actual network settings or certain special device models, which could prevent device discovery.

mdns-beacon listen --service _lamda._tcp.local.

If your device supports mDNS (macOS has the best support; Windows and Linux may require additional configuration), you can directly enter the server name plus the port, such as ad12cf9d6d15385f.local:65000, into your browser to access the remote desktop. The string you see, such as ad12cf9d6d15385f, is the Android system's android_id. You can obtain it using the following command.

adb shell settings get secure android_id

Of course, you can also use a zeroconf library for programmatic device discovery, such as python-zeroconf. In addition to programmatic service discovery, it can also enumerate some Android device information (requires configuration).

Service Discovery Configuration¶

We also support using the properties.local configuration file to configure parts of the service discovery. For example, you can change the service type or make each device use a fixed server name.

Whether to allow broadcasting the device's own information, such as the current device ID, ABI, Android version, model, etc. It is not broadcast by default.

mdns.meta=true

Set the mDNS service name for the current device. You can modify this to enhance FIRERPA's stealth capabilities. The default is lamda.

mdns.service=lamda

Set a fixed server name for the current device, which is the Server field name you see in the image above. The name you set does not need to include the .local suffix; this suffix is mandatory and will be added automatically. You need to set a fixed, unique name for each device.

mdns.name=DEVICEID-UNIQUE-NAME