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Problem with using mac addresses for MMM-NetworkScanner

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  • J Offline
    jav26122
    last edited by May 27, 2019, 5:38 PM

    I’m working on getting the MMM-NetworkScanner module working but I’ve hit a wall and I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong at this point. My issue is that I can’t get this module to work with mac addresses. It only shows devices connected to the local network with an ip address. Since local ip’s tend to change and I’d like to assign permanent names to the devices I’d prefer to use mac addresses. The problem is that the networkscanner can never find any devices via mac address. I copied and pasted the address directly from my network’s client list here :
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    Here is my config for the module:

    {
                            module: "MMM-NetworkScanner",
                            position: "bottom_right",
                            header: "Who's home:",
                            classes: "network",
                            config:
                            {
                                    devices:
                                    [
                                            {
                                                    macAddress: "cc:61:e5:54:03:fd", name: "Phone1", icon: "male"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                    macAddress: "cc:62:e5:52:03:fd", name: "test", icon: "female"
                                            },
                                    ],
                                    updateInterval: "2",
                                    showLastSeen: "true",
                                    showLastSeenWhenOffline: "true",
                                    keepAlive: "5",
                                    showUnknown: "false",
                                    showOffline: "true",
                            }
                    },
    

    Testing the same thing with the local ip address of that device works perfectly fine, ex using ipAddress: “192.168.0.26”. Phone1 is an actual device while test is just made-up.

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    • S Offline
      sdetweil
      last edited by sdetweil May 27, 2019, 5:48 PM May 27, 2019, 5:47 PM

      Did u run the device scanner the module provides?

      Are the devices wifi, located on the other side of a switch?

      Sam

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      • J Offline
        jav26122
        last edited by May 27, 2019, 5:52 PM

        Ahhhh I was making configuration changes on a different device and then transferred the files over to my pi. I forgot to install arp-scan on my pi.
        Thanks

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          sdetweil @jav26122
          last edited by May 27, 2019, 6:02 PM

          @jav26122 cool … we all do that.

          I spent an hour or so this last week making changes to my mm setup in a separate copy.
          I made some changes, restarted. No effect etc. Etc… Til I realized I was editing one and running another . Never works that way!!

          Sam

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