Device Discovery
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 6:17 pmI've hit a wall with my current project development: I have a webserver running on a nodemcu board that gives a nice graphical interface to some peripheral hardware. The problem is finding it on my local network as there is no connected terminal to display the IP address.
So I see numerous projects developed with the Arduino IDE platform already get round this with an mDNS library that can be used to translate the IP to a chosen name that can be entered into a browser URL bar (on the same local network). As far as I can tell no such module is available for LUA and it seems nobody is working on it. The Arduino lib is a port of C++ code for the CC3000 which looks to be beyond a simple conversion to LUA so I guess it needs to be compiled as a new module. Have I got this right?
Any application that includes some kind of web interface (I would think many applications) will have this issue so either I'm missing something or there's a fair amount of frustration out there. I do appreciate that the nodemcu devs. are up against it in terms of manpower etc. and that we're enjoying the fruits of their labor etc. but it would be a shame to have to abandon such an otherwise productive environment for the Arduino IDE when there seems to be little else to force such a move.
So I see numerous projects developed with the Arduino IDE platform already get round this with an mDNS library that can be used to translate the IP to a chosen name that can be entered into a browser URL bar (on the same local network). As far as I can tell no such module is available for LUA and it seems nobody is working on it. The Arduino lib is a port of C++ code for the CC3000 which looks to be beyond a simple conversion to LUA so I guess it needs to be compiled as a new module. Have I got this right?
Any application that includes some kind of web interface (I would think many applications) will have this issue so either I'm missing something or there's a fair amount of frustration out there. I do appreciate that the nodemcu devs. are up against it in terms of manpower etc. and that we're enjoying the fruits of their labor etc. but it would be a shame to have to abandon such an otherwise productive environment for the Arduino IDE when there seems to be little else to force such a move.
