device-farm custom capabilites format and usage

[zoli08]

Hi, can you give me a concrete example how to apply df:recordVideo capability for android real device with selenium 3.14 grid? i tried within the my config.json as:

"server": {
"address": "127.0.0.1",
....
"default-capabilities": {
"df:recordVideo": true,
"df:saveDeviceLogs": true,
"df:liveVideo": true,
"df:build": "asd"
},
and also within the plugins section:
"plugin": {
"device-farm": {
but neither works.

My second question is if i use "liveStreaming":true within plugins,device-farm the command is recognized but after several tries the appium logs says "Streaming apk not presetn trying so downloading"
Message: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Error establishing connection: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND github.com
It is means i have to update my apk during the test session to make it work?
Thanks!

[luprochazka-cen63872]

@saikrishna321 Hi, I am fighting with the same. I am trying to avoid the issue mentioned here.

When I set the capability directly in Appium Inspector like this:

{ "platformName": "Android", "appium:automationName": "UIAutomator2", "appium:udid": "xxxx", "df:enableLiveVideo": "False" }
It works.

I don`t want to modify all projects with setting this in code, so I what to set the enableLiveVideo capability in Appium config like this:

{ "server": { "port": 4723, "base-path": "/wd/hub/", "allow-insecure": ["chromedriver_autodownload"], "default-capabilities": { "appium:showXcodeLog": true, "df:liveVideo": false }, "use-plugins": [ "device-farm" ], "plugin": { "device-farm": { "platform": "both", "iosDeviceType": "real" } } } }

What am I doing wrong?

2nd question, this will disable live video, which is pretty good feature, is there any other way how to make this cool feature working? I think you mention that root cause of this problem is in different subnet.

[luprochazka-cen63872]

@saikrishna321 I'm still trying to set the liveVideo globally, but the Appium Inspector keeps showing a spinning animation. Could you help me out? As I mentioned earlier, when I set the capability directly in Appium Inspector, it works perfectly.

But with this Appium Server configuration, it doesn't work:

{
  "server": {
    "port": 4723,
    "base-path": "/wd/hub/",
    "default-capabilities": {
      "appium:showXcodeLog": true,
      "df:liveVideo": false
    },
    "use-plugins": [
      "device-farm"
    ],
    "plugin": {
      "device-farm": {
        "platform": "both",
        "iosDeviceType": "real"
      }
    }
  }
}

I see the capability that has been set: