Dart - Send an UDP broadcast
There are two problems:
Use
InternetAddress.anyIPv4
for binding on all network interfaces;Enable permission for broadcasting with property
broadcastEnabled
Obviously use a broadcast address: for a /24
network use x.y.z.255
address.
This snippet works:
import 'dart:io';
import 'dart:convert';
main() {
var DESTINATION_ADDRESS=InternetAddress("x.y.z.255");
RawDatagramSocket.bind(InternetAddress.anyIPv4, 8889).then((RawDatagramSocket udpSocket) {
udpSocket.broadcastEnabled = true;
udpSocket.listen((e) {
Datagram dg = udpSocket.receive();
if (dg != null) {
print("received ${dg.data}");
}
});
List<int> data =utf8.encode('TEST');
udpSocket.send(data, DESTINATION_ADDRESS, 8889);
});
}