Hostname (standard PC-192-168-xxx-xxx)

[Blackfarmer]

Hello,

I'm using the SDK of ESP822. Currently the device is registered in my network with the name 'PC-aaa-bbb-ccc-ddd', where aaa, bbb, ccc, ddd is the IP address. I would like to change this name into a myself generated name. How can I do this?

Thanks!
Blackfarmer

[ESP_Faye]

Hi，

Thanks for your interest in ESP8266 !

Sorry that we don‘t have the API to set hostname right now.

But this is a valuable advice，we will work on it !

[joostn]

Agreed, this would be my #1 request. An IOT device should be accessible via a configurable host name, so I can configure my connected refrigerator via http://fridge.local/

I'm currently solving this by using my own LWIP but this is a pain to maintain between SDK upgrades.

[Blackfarmer]

Hello espressif team,

you solved my request with SDK 1.1.2 (wifi_station_set_hostname(hostname)).

I'm impressed how fast you react to user requests! Great job - Thanks!

Best regards
Blackfarmer

[blubb]

Hi, it seems that setting the hostname alone is not enough for Windows hosts.

I can see the hostname on my router's info page. I can ping the module from a linux client.

I cannot ping the module from a windows client!

However, Windows' nslookup command shows me the module's ip.

So something is still missing.

[ESP_Faye]

Hi,

Could your windows client ping other host ?

[blubb]

Hi, yes. It can ping my ubuntu machine. If I remember correctly I had to install Samba on the ubuntu machine to achieve this. But I do not know what Samba does to make this possible.

[tve]

This is a problem wit windows. I'm had some people report success by ensuring that their router has a local domain set to "local". Others had to make sure that the TCP properties on windows are set to add the .local suffix ...

[blubb]

Nope, I can ping my Ubuntu machine by its name without "local" or whatever. Just the hostname. There is definitely still something missing in the sdk.

[ESP_Faye]

Hi，

Yes，windows client can not ping ESP8266 by hostname.

Because ESP8266 does not support protocol “NBNS” .

Please ping it through IP.

So sorry for the inconvenience.