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1iveowl
1iveowl

Reputation: 1732

Check if another device is alive on the network based on its IP-address

I'm trying to write a simple UWP IoT App that is to run on Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi.

The App need to test if another device is currently alive on the local network. All the Apps knows about this other device is its ip address.

I see from other SO questions that Ping is not supporten because ICMP is not supported on WinRT. I assume this also the case on UWP?

I guess I could create a socket and try an connect to for example port 80 and unless a time-out error is received then that means the device is available. However that "hack" seems a bit messy and I'm not sure that it would be solid enough to rely on.

Any other ideas for some C# UWP code that can be used for testing that a device is available and alive on a local network based on its ip address?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2222

Answers (1)

Tamás Deme
Tamás Deme

Reputation: 2228

You are correct, ICMP is still not supported on UWP. But you could use this instead: https://github.com/christophwille/winrt-vasily (it's kind-of what you wanted to do, but already done)

Upvotes: 1

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