Update #2.
After an hour-long battle with Samsung Smart Switch and learning how to get the phone to switch from USB tethering to media file transfer mode, I found out that the phone's own updating app had everything up to the latest version. There is no firmware update that enables mDNS on this particular phone (Samsung S10e).
The solution is then to assign a static IP address to the RPi and create a bookmark in the Android device's browser to access the Moode UI.
That was a frustrating experience...
EDIT TO ADD: TheOldPresbyope nailed it. Good to know that the issue is resolved on Google Pixel 3A. Perhaps sometime in the not too distant future Samsung will update this in their Android implementation. It seems not all Android 12 installs are alike (but you already knew that). In the meantime, I'd be happy to change the title of this thread to "Can't open moode.local from Samsung Android phone". (If I knew the answer to the question when I wrote the question then I'd have phrased the question more precisely!)
After an hour-long battle with Samsung Smart Switch and learning how to get the phone to switch from USB tethering to media file transfer mode, I found out that the phone's own updating app had everything up to the latest version. There is no firmware update that enables mDNS on this particular phone (Samsung S10e).
The solution is then to assign a static IP address to the RPi and create a bookmark in the Android device's browser to access the Moode UI.
That was a frustrating experience...
EDIT TO ADD: TheOldPresbyope nailed it. Good to know that the issue is resolved on Google Pixel 3A. Perhaps sometime in the not too distant future Samsung will update this in their Android implementation. It seems not all Android 12 installs are alike (but you already knew that). In the meantime, I'd be happy to change the title of this thread to "Can't open moode.local from Samsung Android phone". (If I knew the answer to the question when I wrote the question then I'd have phrased the question more precisely!)
