Is argument --plugin-device-farm-emulators needed only for boot emulators at farm startup?

[jekson0702]

I have appium device farm and want to boot android emulator when it's needed for test and shutdown it after. The rest of time i want to see it in the device list as Offline. When I use appium server without farm android emulator can be automatically booted at the start of test with specifying "avdName". But do I need to handle it separately when I use farm? I thought that --plugin-device-farm-emulators can show all specified emulators in device list constantly and automatically boot them when needed.

[saikrishna321]

You need to provide the avd that you need to boot in the server args

Refer

{
"server": {
"port": 31337,
"plugin": {
"device-farm": {
"platform": "android",
"remoteMachineProxyIP": "http://10.x.x.x:3333",
"skipChromeDownload": true,
"androidDeviceType": "real",
"iosDeviceType": "simulated",
"wdaBundleId": "atd.pro",
"preBuildWDAPath": "/Users/saikrishna/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WebDriverAgent-egfeypzyldpeeqdwikoxqbnopkla/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/WebDriverAgentRunner-Runner.app",
"adbRemote": [
"192.168.0.1:5037",
"192.168.0.2:5037"
],
"hub": "https://hubip:port",
"maxSessions": 2,
"emulators": [
{
"avdName": "Pixel_5_API_33",
"launchTimeout": 120000
},
{
"avdName": "nightwatch-android-11",
"launchTimeout": 10000
}
],
"derivedDataPath": {
"simulator": "/Users/saikrishna/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WebDriverAgent-Test",
"device": "/Users/saikrishna/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/WebDriverAgent-Test"
},
"deviceAvailabilityTimeoutMs": 300000,
"deviceAvailabilityQueryIntervalMs": 10000,
"sendNodeDevicesToHubIntervalMs": 30000,
"checkStaleDevicesIntervalMs": 30000,
"checkBlockedDevicesIntervalMs": 30000,
"newCommandTimeoutSec": 60,
"bindHostOrIp": "127.0.0.0",
"bootedSimulators": true
}
}
}
}