Bugzilla – Bug 760
Automatically assign SlimDevice Player Names
Last modified: 2011-01-24 00:10:13 UTC
isn't there any way of setting the name displayed in Slimserver at the player end - without using the web interface - it'd be great if the player could broadcast its name especially as i listen to my music all over the world on different client sites at work, so its hard to keep track of all the IPs - and they keep changing! regards Gautam
what would you have them named?? The IP address is used as a default name if no other is supplied. The MAC address is used for the hardware players, so the names should not be changing. I think one posible option here is to assign the first IP address as the name automatically instead of waiting until the user accesses the player settings and does not enter a name.
For software players, the hostname would be an ideal choice for the default name. I'm pretty sure that all the supported platforms have the concept of hostname. For hardware players, it would be nice if the opposite occurred -- once the web ui has been used to assign a name, the hardware player should announce that as its hostname when connecting via DHCP.
I think that the DHCP thing is already done for hardware players.
Yes, it's done in fw.
Dean doesn't work here any more :)