Unity networking on different projects

Hello,

I am really new to unity and what I am trying to build is mostly for educational purposes but I feel kind of lost and could use some help.

The main idea is having two applications, one running on a windows pc and another on an android phone that could exchange data over LAN (probably using network discovery but this is not the point at the moment).
By data I mean accelerometer values from the phone that will affect some kind of object on the windows client.
That means I must send messages very fast.

So I started looking into unity networking but then I realized I cannot have a network manager work in two different projects (or that my limited knowledge of unity does not allow me to do that).

So my question is what are my options?
Is there any way to achieve that using unity networking?
Do I have to use some kind of socket server-client?

Thanks in advance.

 

In theory, if you are using matching network scripts between the two project, you may be able to use HLAPI UNet. But it can be hit or miss depending on build differences.
If you use LLAPI you shouldn't have those issues since you completely control network traffic.

 

I have been researching this a bit, it seems like when you are using separate projects, the NET ID is not syncronized, causing major issues with the standard network manager scripts. A solution seems to be having separate scenes in the same project, one for android, one for pc, and then only compile the scenes that are meant for the specific platform. Ex scene01Android and scene01PC

 

Hello all and thanks for your replies!

gianox I thought of that approach but I realised that if I ever wanted to create another project for PC I had to add the "android scene" on both, resulting in two different applications for android doing the same thing and I found that approach restrictive.

After Oshroth pointed me to LLAPI I found this guide:
http://www.robotmonkeybrain.com/good-enough-guide-to-unitys-unet-transport-layer-llapi/
and managed to create two different apps to communicate through the local network.
I don't know if I am doing anything wrong but it seems to be working.

 

Yes, that is definitely the way to go if you don't want/need to use the HLAPI.

 

This post was extremely helpful, thanks guys