How to launch 2 devices with same deviceName?

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Hi,

I need your help please.

I would like to run automation on 2 real devices (Android).
I am trying to automate all the process, so I run adb commands from my python code in order to extract the desired_caps.

I bought these 2 smartphones the same day in same shop. They have same “deviceName”:

The idea is to run some test on both smarthphones at same time.
I’ve understood I wil run appium on different port. But how Appium will know which smartphone is which one, if they have both same “deviceName”

Here is my code for the moment:
#— So now we will extract the ID and the deviceName from tmp.txt
#— We start first to extract all the lines in a list
with open(‘tmp.txt’) as f:
lines = f.readlines()

#--- then we can extract the id  in a list of dictionnary
#At the end, it hsould look somethign like this
#list = [
#    {'smartphone_ID': '41492968379078', 'deviceName': 'S6S5IN3G'},
#    {'smartphone_ID': '53519716736397', 'deviceName': 'S6S5IN3G'}
#]
i = 0
while(i<(quantity_connected_phones+1)):
    #--- We extract the ID
    if i!= 0 and i!=(quantity_connected_phones+1):
        first_space_pos = lines[i].find(' ')
        smartphone_id=lines[i][0:first_space_pos]
        dico_smartphones["Smartphone_ID"] = smartphone_id
        print("Smartphone " + str(i) + " id : " + smartphone_id)

    i += 1

print(str(dico_smartphones))
f.close()

Here is the output:

devices : List of devices attached
41492968379078 device product:S6S5IN3G model:S6S5IN3G device:S6S5IN3G transport_id:2
53519716736397 device product:S6S5IN3G model:S6S5IN3G device:S6S5IN3G transport_id:1

You have 2 smartphones connected on your computer.
If program didn’t detect some smartphones connected, please be sure to have enabled ‘USB debugging mode’ => read Configure on-device developer options  |  Android Studio  |  Android Developers.
Smartphone 1 id : 41492968379078
Smartphone 2 id : 53519716736397
{‘Smartphone_ID’: ‘53519716736397’}

Process finished with exit code 0

Is there anyone who faced this issue in the past? Any suggestion?

Thanks

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  1. you can change device name on phone in settings.
  2. better point at correct device using UDID also. So try:
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.UDID,"41492968379078");
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Thanks Aleksei.
I am in python. I searched on appium and google websites for finding hte python version of your line of code without success.

Do you know python?

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https://github.com/appium/python-client/tree/master/test many examples

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