Is anyone else having trouble connecting to the firebase emulators from real devices?

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I’ve setup firebase emulators for the realtime db and firestore on my local machine (i’ll refer to it as host from now. it’s a Mac)
when i run the ios simulator the database connections are localhost:5002/3 which works fine and connects correctly to the emulators.
but when i run on a real device using the expo app, after replacing localhost in the db connection strings to the ip of my host machine (192.168…), i cannot connect to the emulators.
i’ve tried the following prefixes:
http://
https://
exp://
no prefixes at all

does anyone know how i can connect from a device running the expo app to firebase db emulators??

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I figured this issue out. it is not with Expo. need to add 0.0.0.0 as the host ip address for each emulator. like so

"emulators": {
		"functions": {
			"port": "5001",
			"predeploy": "npm --prefix functions run build",
			"host": "0.0.0.0"
		},
		"firestore": {
			"port": "5002",
			"host": "0.0.0.0"
		},
		"database": {
			"port": "5003",
			"host": "0.0.0.0"
		},
		"ui": {
			"enabled": true
		}
	},
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