Port change is not reflected in usage of Syncthing (manual restart is needed)

[ineiti]

On my mac I have two syncthing instances, one for each user. So I changed the port of one of the instances in order for them to run in parallel. Now the following happens for the syncthing with the changed port:

• it seems to me that the status icon follows the syncthing of the other user with the default port
• when I click on the icon and choose Open, it opens the syncthing with the default port. Same thing if I click the icon, choose Preferences and then Open Syncthing in Browser

[xor-gate]

you need to click on the icon -> Preferences -> enter the URI -> click test. Then close syncthing and restart it. Then the non default port should be used. Keep in mind you should also set the API key based on the instance.

[ineiti]

OK, seems I didn't quit and start Syncthing again.

[xor-gate]

Reopened because we should at least document this behaviour. And probably we should fix it so it is live changed and it doesn't need restarted. For my own administration: this behaviour is probably due to the default functionality and syncthing daemon background process are not synced when updating. Then the background process should be stopped/killed and then started again after the change and given the new setting.

[ineiti]

There might be other configuration changes that need to be reloaded, no? So perhaps for every configuration change, do this reloading of the daemon.

[xor-gate]

Exactly, like the environment variables and the hidden commandline arguments.