Unable to run multiple instances of livereload simultaneously

[brandyscarney]

From @sarahsga on January 20, 2017 15:44

Ionic version:
[ ] 1.x
[ x] 2.x

I'm submitting a ...
[x ] bug report
[ ] feature request
[ ] support request => Please do not submit support requests here, use one of these channels: https://forum.ionicframework.com/ or http://ionicworldwide.herokuapp.com/

Current behavior:
unable to simultaneously run livereload on ios, android and browser.

Expected behavior:
expected to simultaneously be able to run livereload on ios, android and browser, to be able to test on multiple platforms simultaneously. This worked flawlessly with ionic 1.x

Steps to reproduce:
Step 1: ionic run ios -l -c --device
This will run livereload on ios device connected to the machine.

Step 2: ionic run android -l -c
This will give an error

Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:53703
    at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
    at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1049:20)
    at Server._listen2 (net.js:1253:14)
    at listen (net.js:1289:10)
    at net.js:1399:9
    at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:77:11)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:98:9)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:592:11)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)

This happens because the address "192.168.8.102" is already in use by livereload running on ios. I have tried changing port (--port), livereload-port (--livereload-port), nothing's working.

Other information:
I was able to run multiple instances of livereload on one address "192.168.8.102" simultaneously while developing ionic 1.x applications
This issue ionic-team/ionic-framework#9425 addresses this problem, but it does not address how to run multiple livereload instances simultaneously.

Ionic info:

Cordova CLI: 6.3.1 
Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.0-rc.5
Ionic CLI Version: 2.2.1
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.2.0
Ionic App Scripts Version: 1.0.0
ios-deploy version: 1.9.0 
ios-sim version: 5.0.8 
OS: OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v6.4.0
Xcode version: Xcode 8.2 Build version 8C38

Copied from original issue: ionic-team/ionic-framework#10114

[gianpaj]

For others looking for this, the workaround can be found here:

#1678 -> #1678 (comment)