Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

Re:Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl,... by LeanderK on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:20AM (#35537882)

I have recently come to the conclusion that a major problem is that there is no "local" internet. You either have websites somewhere out of local network or some app-based solution, but there's no "dishwasher.local". And you can't burden consumers with IP addresses.

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Re:Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl,... by oefrha on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:33AM (#35537997)

There is “local” Internet, it’s called LAN. There’s “dishwater.local” if someone (manufacturer included, though I’m pretty firmly against IoS devices) bothers to set it up. Local nodes can do multicast/broadcast DNS and discover each other. You’ve probably seen it if you ever used a WiFi-connected printer on LAN.

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Re:Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl,... by candiddevmike on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:12AM (#35539084)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS should work fine here

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Re:Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl,... by LeanderK on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:33AM (#35541473)

ah I never knew that the protocols behind the zeroconf services (Bonjour etc.) can also resolve hostnames. Very interesting. Although I have to say that in my experience these things are not robust enough yet. Setting up the printer at work was a pain because it was not automatically found (okay, this is a complex network) and at home I have a few devices that should talk with each other (some running behind switches) but only if I start them in the right order.

I wonder why there's no way to let the router handle the DNS with some sort of registering/de-registering functionality? I would think this to be more robust compared to the broadcasting.

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