Apache Cordova/Visual Studio 2015 tools fails to launch app in IOS simulator

Question

I am trying to deploy a simple newly created Cordova app on Mac from vs2015 it seems that the project is build successfully but I am getting the following error in visual studio and no app is installing or running on simulator.

Starting launch process C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\node.exe "C:\Users\RezaR\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vs-tac\emulator.js" --platform ios --action launch --path "c:\users\rezar\documents\visual studio 2015\Projects\BlankCordovaApp2\BlankCordovaApp2\bld\ios\Debug\buildInfo.json" --serverUrl http://RezaMac:3015/cordova --language en-US --loglevel warn --cliVersion 5.4.1 --npmInstallDir "C:\Users\RezaR\AppData\Roaming\npm" --deployTarget "iPhone 5S" Timed out connecting debugger to remote Apache Cordova app. See Output window for JavaScript console output.

------ Cordova tools 5.4.1 already installed. Requesting emulate on iOS Simulator for buildNumber 1462 on server http://RezaMac:3015/cordova... Failed to launch iOS remote for build c:\users\rezar\documents\visual studio 2015\Projects\BlankCordovaApp2\BlankCordovaApp2\bld\ios\Debug\buildInfo.json to http://RezaMac:3015/cordova for deploy target iPhone 5S: Http 404: {"command":"build","vcordova":"5.4.1","cfg":"debug","loglevel":"warn","status":"Error","buildCommand":"build","buildPlatform":"ios","configuration":"debug","buildLang":"en-US","buildDir":"/Users/RezaRa/.taco_home/remote-builds/taco-remote/builds/1462","buildNumber":1462,"options":"","logLevel":0,"submissionTime":"2016-03-12T21:30:32.929Z","changeList":{"deletedFiles":[]},"buildSuccessful":true,"messageId":"EmulateFailedTimeout","messageArgs":[null],"message":"Error: timed out launching iOS simulator.","tgzFilePath":"/Users/RezaRa/.taco_home/remote-builds/taco-remote/builds/1462/upload_1462.tgz","appDir":"/Users/RezaRa/.taco_home/remote-builds/taco-remote/builds/1462/cordovaApp","statusTime":"2016-03-12T21:32:17.020Z","appName":"BlankCordovaApp2"}

------ Cordova tools 5.4.1 already installed. Requesting debug on remote iOS device for buildNumber 1462 on server http://RezaMac:3015/cordova... Failed to Debug iOS remote for build c:\users\rezar\documents\visual studio 2015\Projects\BlankCordovaApp2\BlankCordovaApp2\bld\ios\Debug\buildInfo.json to http://RezaMac:3015/cordova : iPhone 5S

Then I tried below as mentioned in this post

On the mac, go to ~/.taco_home/node_modules/taco-remote-lib/<VERSION>/node_modules/taco-remote-lib/ and run npm uninstall ios-sim && npm install ios-sim@5.0.4

but no chance

My Environment:

On windows:

• Vs2015 Update 1
• Cordova 5.4.1

on Mac

• Yosemit
• Xcode 7.2.1
• Simulator 9.2
• Cordova 5.4.1
• Node 5.7.1

Answer 1

I have found the problem and solution, in case of somebody else has the same problem:

• first run remotebuild saveconfig in macos terminal
• Open the RemoteBuild.config file in the Text Editor from the path of the previous step
• Change value of appLaunchStepTimout to 60000 (1 min)
• Change value of emulatorLaunchTimeout to 60000 (1 min)
• Save the file
• run remotebuild on terminal
• Run the project from Visual studio again