check if rotator already exists on the network

dh1tw / remoteRotator

remoteRotator lets you expose a local antenna rotator (azimuth / elevation) to the network

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check if rotator already exists on the network #12

Closed dh1tw closed 4 years ago

dh1tw commented 4 years ago

On startup of a rotator (remoteRotator server lan --name=myRotator) it should be checked that this rotator does not exist on the lan. Otherwise there will be collisions between the two rotator instances.

This applies only the the lan transport option. This check is already included in the nats transport.

dh1tw commented 4 years ago

After investigating this issue, I think I will leave it as is. The web server (remoteRotator web) will just ignore a rotator with the same name.

Since MDNS is also not always reliable, a check on startup would take considerable time. Let's trust in the user to name the remoteRotator server lan instances properly. In the worst case, duplicate instances just get ignored.