How to fix Device Name (hostname) = Unknown showing in router GUI as my wifi device?

madmax2 · April 30, 2021 at 12:38 AM

I have two raspberry pi 3b with LibreELEC on each .

LibreELEC is using the default System Name = LibreELEC

and Kodi Settings > Services > General > Device Name = Kodi

Now the problem is in my router GUI, it is showing

this wifi device name = unknown-[MAC ADDRESS]
e.g

Device Name = Unknown-C1:35:E3:A5:11:5F

If I change the names in LibreELEC and Kodi settings

it still does not get updated in my router even after I tried turning off and back on the wifi connection in LibreELEC.
I have also tried setting the IP Address manually and automatically (DHCP) but still nothing changes in the router.

How can I fix this so that the router grabs the proper device name from LibreELEC?

I would like to be able to easily identify which wifi devices is LibreELEC on my network by the device name as well as the IP and link speed etc.

Gaudi · April 30, 2021 at 5:28 PM

Check out this post:

Thread

Change hostname?

Hi there!

What they write here seems to be a complete nonense: Hostname Setting · libretro/Lakka-LibreELEC Wiki · GitHub

Proof:

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LibreELEC-beni:~ # echo "LibreELEC" > /storage/.cache/hostname

LibreELEC-beni:~ # reboot

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After restart:

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LibreELEC (official): 8.2.5 (RPi2.arm)

LibreELEC-beni:~ #

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So the name is still "LibreELEC-beni"... WTF??

Change it in both /storage/.cache/hostname and /etc/hosts does also not solve my problem.

Regards,

Jan

jmar83

November 26, 2018 at 9:06 PM

Hope it helps!