lawik
We should make some tooling for mDNS/local nerves devices
Half the problems of figuring out if a device is up during dev is about figuring out if a device came up and with what hostnames?
For pis you get nerves.local or whatever you set plus a nerves-1234.local. When juggling devices you sometimes get collisions, sometimes you unwittingly switch hostname.
I guess we could do a mix command to check mDNS info locally. Would need some different implementation between platforms but…
Good idea?
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kevinschweikert
Hey @fhunleth
i’ve read your post and felt motivated to start something.
I have some MikroTik devices lying around and started a new library
https://github.com/kevinschweikert/mndp
There is still some work to do, but i can successfully parse the discovery packet of my MikroTik router.
What would be needed to make this useful in Nerves?
I would imagine:
- a gen server which sends the discovery packets in an interval so we could start it in the application tree of the nerves device
- a mix task to listen to these discovery packets and display them in the CLI
LostKobrakai
I’ve been using Discovery - DNS-SD Browser App - App Store on mac to browse mDNS data.
Wouldn’t mdns-lite be able to handle that?
kevinschweikert
Official MikoTik Tool WinBox recognizes the packets!
Code is still messy but i tried to make it work at first. Next i’m working on fixing that 
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