Workaround for Visual Studio for Mac

debugdiscovery.py

# Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/64067297
# Run this on your dev machine (computer where Visual Studio for Mac is running)
import socket
from time import sleep

def main():
    interfaces = socket.getaddrinfo(host=socket.gethostname(), port=None, family=socket.AF_INET)

    # Adjust IPs to match your local network.
    deviceIp = "192.168.1.40"
    devicePort = 56000
    broadcastIp = "192.168.1.255"
    broadcastPort = 54997

    # Look for similar message in the XCode output log, and adjust accordingly.
    # It looks like it's sufficient to change IP and port. Visual Studio for Mac seems to use
    # info in the message, and not the actual source IP of the broadcast message, so it connects
    # to the device even though the message doesn't strictly come from it.
    # 
    #
    # Multi-casting "[IP] 20.62.180.11 [Port] 55000 [Flags] 2 [Guid] 2249384309 [EditorId] 2324418647 [Version] 1048832 [Id] iPhonePlayer(8,Someones-iPhone):56000 [Debug] 1 [PackageName] iPhonePlayer [ProjectName] UnityProject" to [225.0.0.222:54997]...
    # Starting managed debugger on port 56000
    message = "[IP] " + deviceIp +" [Port] " + str(devicePort) + " [Flags] 2 [Guid] 1741584310 [EditorId] 2311285316 [Version] 1048832 [Id] iPhonePlayer(8,Someones-iPhone):" + str(devicePort) + " [Debug] 1 [PackageName] iPhonePlayer [ProjectName] UnityProject"

    print("Sending message: '" + message + "' to " + broadcastIp + ":" + str(broadcastPort))

    msg = bytes(message, 'utf-8')

    sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM, socket.IPPROTO_UDP)  # UDP
    sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
    sock.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
    sock.bind(("0.0.0.0",0))

    # TODO: Nice shutdown
    while True:
        sock.sendto(msg, (broadcastIp, broadcastPort))

        sleep(2)
    
    sock.close()


main()