How can I determine which devices are available to connect to?

In the example code in the readme, we find the line

device1 = AdbDevice(serial='192.168.0.111:5555', default_timeout_s=9.)

This seems to suggest that in order to use this library to talk to a device, I need to know its IP and port already. Is there a facility in this library to obtain this information? If not, I’d suggest there should be.

[JeffLIrion]

I wrote this package to implement ADB shell functionality over TCP. If someone wants to implement that same functionality over USB, including writing tests with complete coverage, then that would be a welcome contribution. But I have no plans to do that myself.

[ubaierbhat]

I am just trying library as well and I was going to ask the same question. Limiting to tcp connection doesn’t sound nice and there should be a way to get a list of connected devices as well.

This is how I make it work:

You can get the ip address of the device from Settings > About Phone > Status on your phone. Or as Jeff said you can check your router. Or if you are already connected with usb adb shell ip route | awk '{print $9}''

But having just an ip address of your device won’t be enough. You must enable adb connection over tcp first. For this your device needs to be connected with usb and use following adb command: adb tcpip [port] e.g. adb tcpip 5555

AdbDevice(serial='192.168.0.111:5555').connect() is equal to adb connect 192.168.0.111:5555

So the not recommended (as it uses adb commands directly) way to do it will be

import os
from pathlib import Path

from adb_shell.adb_device import AdbDevice
from adb_shell.auth.sign_pythonrsa import PythonRSASigner

# get ip (WLAN only) address of device
ip = str(os.popen("adb shell ip route | awk '{print $9}'").read()).strip()
print(f'IP address: {ip}  ')

# Enable adb over tcp
port = '5555'
os.system(f'adb tcpip {port}')

# Connect (authentication required)
home = str(Path.home())
with open(f'{home}/.android/adbkey') as f:
    priv = f.read()

signer = PythonRSASigner('', priv)
device = AdbDevice(serial=f'{ip}:{port}')
device.connect(rsa_keys=[signer], auth_timeout_s=0.1)

# Send a shell command
response = device.shell('echo hello')
print(response)