How to set WIFI client device name?

Technical Discussion
1

By default, when connected to AP, AP shows “UNKNOWN” as “client name”.
How can the client name be set?

Thanks,
Ivan Slavov

2

Hi @airista_islavov,

Before calling the WiFi.begin API, could you try calling the API WiFi.setHostName($Your device name)?

Thank you.

3

Hi,
This seems Arduino reference code.

I am using the Ameba SDK and GCC, so I need the API in the SDK context.
This is where I thought I would find the API to call to set the host name:

I browsed all header files and I don’t see anything “host” related.
Thanks,
Ivan S.

4

Hi @airista_islavov,

I believe you can try to set it with the lwip API. ameba-rtos-d/component/common/network/lwip/lwip_v2.0.2/src/include/lwip/netif.h at main · Ameba-AIoT/ameba-rtos-d · GitHub.

First define lwip hostname support in your lwipopts.h.
#define LWIP_NETIF_HOSTNAME 1 // Enable hostname

Then try to call the function netif_set_hostname in line 433 of the file attached above.

Hope this helps.

Thank you.

5

Thank you Kelvin! it worked!