How to start culebratester2 server on more than one device?

Question

I want to start culebratester2 server on multiple devices at the same time in order to use uiautomatorhelper with AndroidViewClient in Python to test the same app on many devices. I don't know if it possible because I'm not able to specify a different forward port using the command ./culebratester2 start-server and using AndroidViewClient. Is there a way to do it? Thanks.

Answer 1

You were absolutely right, there was no way of specifying the local and remote ports... until now.

Get the latest CulebraTester2-public or run it directly using curl as explained in How to run CulebraTester2 ? and you have these new options:

./culebratester2 --help
usage: culebratester2 [-h|--help] [-n|-dryrun] {forward-port | run-instrumentation | start-server | install | uninstall }

positional arguments:
 forward-port          uses adb to forward port 9987
     [--local-port PORT] [--remote-port PORT]
 install               installs on device
 run-instrumentation   runs the instrumentation and starts the server
 start-server          starts the server on the device
 uninstall             uninstalls pkgs on device

optional arguments:
 -h, --help            show this help message and exit
 -n, --dryrun          does not execute the commands

so you can specify the port either for forward-port or start-server (which invokes forward-port internally).

For example:

./culebratester2 start-server --local-port 6543

this way you would be able to specify a different local port for each device.

There is also a new command line option --dryrun if you want to check what it is going to do before actually doing it.