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Better handling of multiple umbrel nodes on the network #1797

Open knorrium opened 2 months ago

knorrium commented 2 months ago

The documentation says that when there are multiple Umbrel instances on the network, they can be accessed through umbrel-2.local, umbrel-3.local etc.

That seems to work fine, but I believe the actual hostname could be updated to prevent collisions and it would also fix the connection instructions in the apps:

Note the address on the nav bar vs the hostname reported by the console:

Screenshot 2024-04-22 at 9 53 52 AM

Core and Electrs instructions:

Screenshot 2024-04-22 at 9 51 03 AM Screenshot 2024-04-22 at 9 50 45 AM

I'm not sure if this is due to the collision but my latest Umbrel Home node becomes unresponsive after a few days.

highghlow commented 2 months ago

Umbrel apps source the device's hostname through an env variable passed to them, so probably that should be updated to reflect the dns change