Appium-desktop: How to use a different version of Appium

[shyam27]

Hi All,

Earlier I have installed appium 1.6.3 and generated webdriveragent to test ios 10 mobiles. I am able to run tests.
Today i have installed appium-desktop for inspecting elements where it is using appium 1.6.4. when i started my new session i am getting below error

[Xcode] 2017-04-03 12:41:53.194 xcodebuild[1915:39792] Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner.app” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/Users/shyam/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WebDriverAgent-eajirzirbxveykgwvxgnmdlzufcn/Build/Products/Debug-iphoneos/WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner.app, NSUnderlyingError=0x7f97f4374370 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}
[Xcode] 2017-04-03 12:41:53.194 xcodebuild[1915:39792] Error Domain=IDETestOperationsObserverErrorDomain Code=6 "Early unexpected exit, operation never finished bootstrapping - no restart will be attempted" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Early unexpected exit, operation never finished bootstrapping - no restart will be attempted}
[Xcode] 
[Xcode] ** TEST EXECUTE FAILED **
[Xcode] 
[Xcode] 
[XCUITest] xcodebuild exited with code '65' and signal 'null'

Which means again i have to generate WDA for appium-desktop. Is there any possibility to use appium 1.6.3 instead of appium 1.6.4 in appium-desktop.

Or i have to generate a new WDA for Appium 1.6.4

Thanks

[dpgraham]

Yes, that's possible

• Run an Appium server
• Open appium desktop (do not start the server)
• In the menu, select 'Appium > New Session Window...'
• Select the 'Custom' tab
• Enter the hostname and port of the appium server you have running

[shyam27]

Thanks @dpgraham its working.

[dpgraham]

No problem!

[arrk-shch]

@dpgraham I have followed the steps but I am getting error as "Error
Could not connect to server; are you sure it's running?"
I have appium server running with Appium v1.6.5-beta
I have attached screenshot.

[shyam27]

@arrk-shch what is the remote host value you passed?

[arrk-shch]

remote host : 0.0.0.0

[shyam27]

@arrk-shch please use remote host value : 127.0.0.1

[arrk-shch]

Done. But same issue.

[shyam27]

@arrk-shch I have started appium from terminal, now appium is running on 0.0.0.0:4723.

In Custom Server configuration i have passed remote host as 127.0.0.1 and port as 4723, its working fine for me.

[amarnathrayudu]

Error :

Solution : Just switch to Custom server to Automatic server and it works

[AnubhavGitHub]

I tried all of the above options.But still its not working out.

[rahulkulkarniyahoo]

I opened a terminal window and execute the following commands and it worked for me
adb kill-server
adb start-server

[sumitgpt1]

Thanks its works for me also.....but new error came

[sumitgpt1]

Error
An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: 'app' option is required for reinstall

[jayashree28]

I opened a terminal window and execute the following commands and it worked for me
adb kill-server
adb start-server

yea it's worked for me also