Running automation on iOS device

[druvisclv]

Hi, I have encountered problem specificaly with iOS. I don't want to go path where i have to resign WDA ipa and upload it to device farm UI.
But is it even possible to do that? General idea i want to accomplish I have iPhone, i have started WDA runner from Xcode on device and then tests and/or appium device farm uses my runner.

[saikrishna321]

@druvisclv we only expect the resigned WDA to be uploaded into the farm UI for manual interaction, but for test automation you can manage the WDA ur self and just pass in the required capabilities. It should work.

Please do let us know if this does not work, this needs to be fixed in that case.

[druvisclv]

In my case manual interaction would not be necessary, at least for now.
Can you provide some examples of capabilities, please?

Here is part of the device farm logs that caught my attention. In this situation i haven't added resigned ipa to Apps but i have started WDA from Xcode, provided WDA bundle id to capabilities but it still looks like it is still trying to install something from Apps

[device-farm-main] Receiving session request at host: 10.5.0.83
[device-farm-main] 📱 Creating temporary session capability_id: 3bfae322-c61f-471f-90b3-0e6dd6c9a049
[device-farm-main] Merged Capabilities: {
  "platformName": "iOS",
  "df:udids": "000081220-001174D21",
  "appium:automationName": "XCUITest",
  "appium:app": "/Users/myuser/Documents/Cucumber/apps/SUT.ipa",
  "appium:wdaBundleId": "com.uniqueidentifier.WebDriverAgentRunner.xctrunner",
  "appium:newCommandTimeout": 300
}
Acquiring Lock with name aacdeeegiimnorsv
[device-farm-main] Max session count: 8, Busy device count: 0
[device-farm-main] Waiting for free device. Filter: {"platform":"ios","deviceType":"real","udid":["000081220-001174D21"],"busy":false,"userBlocked":false}}
[device-farm-main] Updated devices with filter: {"platform":"ios","deviceType":"real","udid":{"$in":["000081220-001174D21"]},"busy":false,"userBlocked":false}
[device-farm-main] Updated devices with filter: {"platform":"ios","deviceType":"real","udid":{"$in":["000081220-001174D21"]},"busy":false,"userBlocked":false}
[device-farm-main] 📱 Blocking device 000081220-001174D21 at host http://10.5.0.83:31337 for new session
[device-farm-main] Updating allocated device: "{"userBlocked":false,"offline":false,"wdaLocalPort":59476,"mjpegServerPort":59475,"udid":"000081220-001174D21","sdk":"18.3.1","name":"iPhone 13 Pro Max #9058","busy":false,"realDevice":true,"deviceType":"real","platform":"ios","host":"http://10.5.0.83:31337","wdaBundleId":"","productModel":"iPhone14,3","totalUtilizationTimeMilliSec":0,"sessionStartTime":0,"width":"428","height":"926","tags":[],"webDriverAgentHost":"http://10.5.0.83","webDriverAgentUrl":"http://10.5.0.83:59373","nodeId":"953239e2-dec5-4a04-b66b-f0de021681da","meta":{"revision":8,"created":1742209638135,"version":0,"updated":1742209746404},"$loki":1}"
[device-farm-main] Updated allocated device: "[{"userBlocked":false,"offline":false,"wdaLocalPort":59373,"mjpegServerPort":59374,"udid":"000081220-001174D21","sdk":"18.3.1","name":"iPhone 13 Pro Max #9058","busy":true,"realDevice":true,"deviceType":"real","platform":"ios","host":"http://10.5.0.83:31337","wdaBundleId":"","productModel":"iPhone14,3","totalUtilizationTimeMilliSec":0,"sessionStartTime":0,"width":"428","height":"926","tags":[],"webDriverAgentHost":"http://10.5.0.83","webDriverAgentUrl":"http://10.5.0.83:59373","nodeId":"953239e2-dec5-4a04-b66b-f0de021681da","meta":{"revision":10,"created":1742209638135,"version":0,"updated":1742209942893},"$loki":1,"newCommandTimeout":300}]"
[device-farm-main] device.host: http://10.5.0.83:31337 and pluginArgs.bindHostOrIp: 10.5.0.83
[device-farm-main] 📱 Creating session on the same node
[device-farm-main] Installing Resigned WDA on real device
[AppiumDriver@f58f] Command 'createSession' was *not* handled by the following behaviours or plugins, even though they were registered to handle it: ["default"]. The command *was* handled by these: ["device-farm"].
[AppiumDriver@f58f] Encountered internal error running command: TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'appBundleId' of '(intermediate value)' as it is null.
    at generator (/Users/myuser/Documents/Cucumber/node_modules/appium-device-farm/lib/webpack:/appium-device-farm/lib/src/modules/device-control/DeviceHelper.js:478:21)
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at cB (/Users/myuser/Documents/Cucumber/node_modules/appium-device-farm/lib/webpack:/appium-device-farm/lib/src/modules/device-control/DeviceHelper.js:28:48)
[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session 500 12 ms - 664
[HTTP] --> POST /wd/hub/session {"capabilities":{"alwaysMatch":{"platformName":"iOS","df:udids":"000081220-001174D21","appium:automationName":"XCUITest","appium:app":"/Users/myuser/Documents/Cucumber/apps/SUT.ipa","appium:wdaBundleId":"com.uniqueidentifier.WebDriverAgentRunner.xctrunner","appium:newCommandTimeout":300},"firstMatch":[{}]}}

[druvisclv]

@saikrishna321 Any updates?

[saikrishna321]

@druvisclv been busy with work! Will fix in next release

[druvisclv]

Do you have any ETA for when next release will happen?

[saikrishna321]

@druvisclv can you set liveStreaming: false in your server config and try pls