Could not connect WFS to watch the easy way

Watch Face Studio
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I am able to connect to my Galaxy Watch 7 and upload watch faces on my Windows 10 machine running version 1.6.10. So yes, I know the drill.

I put WFS 1.7 on a new Windows 11 machine because Samsung does not see fit to post links to older versions of their software. I could not connect to the watch.

I installed 1.6.10 retrieved from another machine and still could not connect in the usual way through the studio software.

Finally, I followed the instructions on the Samsung web site for connecting using adb command line. That worked and I was able to move a watch face onto my watch.

Any idea what might be going on that prevents me from doing things the usual way without the command line work around? Is it Windows 11?

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where is your windows 11? connected via lan or wireless. windows 10 machine is connected by lan or wirless?

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Did you check this blog: Connecting Galaxy Watch to Watch Face Studio over Wi-Fi | Samsung Developer?

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Reasonable question.

I made sure my watch, Windows 10, and Windows 11 machines were all on the same WiFi AP.

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Oh certainly. That’s the page I mentioned reading after which I decided to try out he ADB command line connection when the pop-up dialog in WFS wasn’t talking to the watch.

I was hoping my description would indicate that I knew all the parts of the usual sync procedure.

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Anyway i dont think its wear os or wfs or windows 11…as i just used windows 11 with watch pro 5 and 1.7.13. It works perfectly.

Could it be firewall either on machine or on router

Same ap but difference bandwidth?

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Firewall is an interesting idea. Now that I have a work around I may or may not investigate that. You would think that the WFS dialog would feed into the same command line business and give the same results, but who knows.

Windows 11 not the culprit is reasonable given everyone would have complained and they would have fixed such thing by now.

Good to know it works for you.