*(Identical in the sense that they have the same purpose)īut this thing goes way deeper, as all the bindings for things that connect over LAN seem to be following the same practice of just going by IP address(/hostname) and not even bothering to store or allow for storing of physical addresses, which to me makes it seem like it’s THE OpenHAB approach or an OpenHAB standard/way/best practice or something like that - as it keeps repeating in the same manner. However it does seem that adding this functionality to the Network binding would by quite an extensive rewrite and I don’t suppose a pull-request like that would go through any time soon. I don’t think it’d make sense to create an identical binding to what already exists as the Network binding. I know I can make the lease static on the router, but it doesn’t change the fact that another something needs to be configured. I understand that this could go very deep and be too much of a rewrite of the whole platform, but it would also allow for a much more modular system. This would make the whole thing so much more dynamic by being able to just plug new devices and not having to give them static IP addresses, as IP addresses can change quite often, but in most cases mac addresses don’t change unless forcefully changed by user. The mac aadress could be stored regardless, and if nmap is present and installed it would make sense to scan the network and check all found mac addresses against the devices listed as network things. I see that most bindings that work over the internet, identify things by IP addresses and IP addresses alone, can’t find mac addresses stored anywhere. Why does OpenHAB not do this and especially not in Network binding? Home Assistant seems to allow NMAP for device tracking and once connected to a device seems to store it’s physical MAC address: which seems to make so much sense. I’m quite new to this whole scene and based on many factors decided to go with OpenHAB with all of my home automation build.
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