Starting UDP on Windows10 Python 3.6 about fauxmo

[n8henrie]

Wow, thanks for following the template and providing a thorough / complete bug report!

I don't have a Windows machine regularly available, so I may be a bit limited in my ability to debug this.

To start:

• Do you have any other services running on 1900?
• Is there error intermittent (e.g. if you wait an hour) or every time you try to start Fauxmo?

[WeldFire]

After trying to set up Fauxmo on a Linux machine, I also ran into this issue. For me the port 1900 was being consumed by another process. Killing this process allows Fauxmo to start fully. You can try viewing ports being held in Windows 10 by going to the Resource Monitor from Task Manager and then looking at "Listening Ports". On my Windows 10 machine it appears that by default Windows 10 process svchost.exe holds this port hostage. Unfortunately for me and as it appears on my machine, also you, need that process running leaving us unable to run this application unless we can figure out how to share this port or leverage a different one.

[n8henrie]

Huh, thanks for chiming in on this issue. I had something similar where my test_udp_search function was failing on macOS for a few days -- for the life of me I couldn't find anything listening on that port, so I finally just rebooted and it started working again.

I've split off a new little bug fix branch to work on this issue -- for starters, I reordered the lines in make_udp_sock() in fauxmo.utils so that 1900 isn't bound until the reuseaddr (and reuseport if available) options are set.

@upstairs-at-erics and @WeldFire -- can you guys give a shot to installing the fix-busy-sockets branch and see if that helps this issue?

[WeldFire]

The fix-busy-sockets branch seems to fix the issue for me, thanks for your help on this issue and your work on this project!

[n8henrie]

@upstairs-at-erics -- since you opened the issue, can you give a shot to the new dev branch (which has merged fix-busy-sockets) and see if it works for you? If I don't hear back in a few days I'll go ahead and merge into master and close.

[n8henrie]

Merged into master, closing due to no response.