Socket error connecting to aenea server about aenea

[drmfinlay]

@sparkvilla I'm glad you got it all working! 👍

@dylan-chong Thank you for the pull request. I'm sure Alex will get to it soon enough, he's probably just busy.

[mzizzi]

The aenea client can't connect to your aenea server for some reason.

Possible causes:

• Aenea client itself is misconfigured. aenea.json in the dragonfly macro folder should point to your host machine's host only ip address.
• Aenea server isn't listening on the right interface. config.py must be set to use the ip for the host only adapter.

[lsgier]

Thanks mzizzi, got it finally working now.

The mistake was rather silly. Windows hides file extensions by default, so aenea.json (as displayed in the folder structure) was actually aenea.json.example.

[dylan-chong]

for future reference, make sure to have the host-only adapter network settings setup correctly mentioned in the readme

[dylan-chong]

i also found that MacroSystem/server_state.json contained {"host": "localhost", "port": 8240} instead of {"host": "192.168.56.1", "port": 8240} which works

[dylan-chong]

if this issue is solved can it be closed ? @lisgie

[sparkvilla]

Hi there, I have the same issue.
my Host = ubuntu 18.04
my Guest = Windows 7 starter

aenea.jsonon the client =

{ host = "192.168.56.1", "port": 8240, platform: "proxy", "use_multiple_actions": true, "screen_resolution": [6400, 1440], "project_root": "C:\\Natlink\Natlink\MacroSystem", "restrict_proxy_to_aenea_client": false}

config.py on the server =

# Host-side config (Linux host receiving commands)
HOST = "192.168.56.1"
PORT = 8240

PLUGIN_PATH = ["plugins"]
ENABLE_XSEL = False
XDOTOOL_DELAY = 0 

When I execute _hello_world_aenea.py with the voice command and I get Socket error connecting to aenea server. To avoid slowing dictation, we won't try again for 5 seconds. from Natlink Messages..Any help??

[drmfinlay]

Hello @sparkvilla. Let's see if I can help you with this.

Have you set up a host-only adapter for your Windows 7 VM? You can do that in the VirtualBox preferences under 'Network->Host-only Networks'. You also need to set it up in the VM settings under 'Network'.

If you have already set that up, then maybe it is a firewall issue? Try checking that you can ping the host machine from the guest machine and vice versa by running something like:

ping 192.168.56.101

[sparkvilla]

Hi @Danesprite and thanks for your help. It is now actually working! I can run the _hello_world_aenea.py and see on my host Aenea remote setup operational! I had a NetlinkUserdirectory that did not have the aenea.json. Just by adding such a file in there.. voilà it works!! Thanks for this fantastic tool.

[dylan-chong]

Hey Diego, thanks for responding with your solution. Is there anything in the README that could be clarified?

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[sparkvilla]

Hi @dylan-chong. I think it would be good to mention that the aenea.json file should be present also in a user defined directory beside the MacroSystem directory. Because of that my setup was not working..