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I have been banging my head on this for quite some days now, still can't seem to figure it out.

How do I discover the ESP8266 device on my local network? All I need is the IP address of the device, which is unknown to the host? So that then I can start communicating with the device.

I see that there's still no support for UPnP or SSDP. I read CoAP is in works. The device doesn't respond to broadcast packets. I am trying to use IGMP, but not really hopeful of that either.

If any of you guys have figured it out, any help will be much appreciated.

There is a discussion about esp reporting it's name to the DHCP server so that you could communicate with it using it's hostname in this thread viewtopic.php?f=21&t=717

It's still not ideal but I think it's better than nothing.

Not exactly discovery but see https://github.com/hamishcunningham/fis ... ter/joinme for an onboarding technique.