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Jey-Cee / ioBroker.net-tools

ioBroker network tools for ping, wake-on-lan and port scan.
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[Feature] Optionally use devicenames or IP Address for states #19

Closed mcm1957 closed 1 year ago

mcm1957 commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. no

Describe the solution you'd like States are currently created based on the max address. It would be much more comfortable to base the states on the devicename or the ip-address. Both are normally known by ser while mac addresses rearely are wellknown. The keep compatibility the format could / should be settable by an (glocbel) parameter.

Describe alternatives you've considered Using Alias would be possible but adds additional overhead

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Jey-Cee commented 1 year ago

You as developer must know the law that adapter has to use a unique id, that will not change. Ip and name are not unique and can change. There are old adapter they do not respect this, but they are the reason for this law.

mcm1957 commented 1 year ago

Well, I did / do NOT know that state keys must be unique in the sense that they may not be defined by the user during configuration of the adapter. If this is specified in some documention, please let me know where - maybe there are other rules I do not know yet.

Anyway, I accept that you do not plan to modify this adapter.