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bertbert72 / HomeAssistant_VirginTivo

HomeAssistant component for control of Virgin Media Tivo boxes
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TIVO Box HOST #104

Closed geekwoody closed 2 years ago

geekwoody commented 2 years ago

Hi, I'm struggling to get this to work outside of entering the box's IP address. If I enter that in my YAML file it works but when I try a name it does not work: Below is example of my YAML entry:

media_player:

My box has a name of office displayed as Office - surrounded by chevrons and in settings it says it has a TiVo Service Number: C68-0000-2244-1C38 which looks similar to those in the examples i've seen.

within my config under host i've tried the following, but the only thing that works is if I put the IP address in, which I want to try and avoid.

host: Office (Office surrounded by chevrons) host: Office host: TIVO-Office host: TIVO- (Office surrounded by chevrons)

host: C68-0000-2244-1C38 host: "TIVO-C68-0000-2244-1C38 host: C68000022441C38 host: TIVO-C68000022441C38

host: 192.168.0.30 - THIS OPTION WORKS

Any ideas as to why it's not working and at least what format I should be using?

Many Thanks,

Mark

richard-scott commented 2 years ago

I find that I need to use a full host name including domain. Maybe try adding .local on the host name or add a domain name if your network sets a domain name via DHCP.

geekwoody commented 2 years ago

I find that I need to use a full host name including domain. Maybe try adding .local on the host name or add a domain name if your network sets a domain name via DHCP.

Thanks for the reply, I'll give that ago. Any idea which of my examples above I should use though to add the .local onto?

richard-scott commented 2 years ago

If your box was on my network, I'd use 'TIVO-C68000022441C38.home.lan' as its hostname as my DHCP server uses 'home.lan' as the default domain.

I can't remember now if I added that hostname to DHCP, or if that's what the device set when it asked for an IP.

geekwoody commented 2 years ago

TIVO-C68000022441C38

Hi, thanks again for the reply, I've done a bit of reading, i'm not really into and have limited understanding, but I run everything off my virgin router, and have no domain setup or configured. So don't think anything belongs to a domain.

richard-scott commented 2 years ago

Have a look in your VirginMedia admin console and see what name is registered there. Then, at a command prompt, try and ping it.

if you are on a Linux box, look in '/etc/resolv.conf' to see what 'search' domain is used, that will be the domain to add.

On Tue, 3 May 2022, at 11:58, geekwoody wrote:

TIVO-C68000022441C38

Hi, thanks again for the reply, I've done a bit of reading, i'm not really into and have limited understanding, but I run everything off my virgin router, and have no domain setup or configured. So don't think anything belongs to a domain.

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