Automatically Detect IP And Fill In

    startec
    Jan 11 2013 | 9:27 am
    Hi, I have a "UDP Send" Object which sends data to my iPad. My problem is that the IP address of my iPad frequently changes if say, I connect on an ad-hoc network or over wireless. This means that whenever I want MAX to send to my ipad I have to figure out the ip address of my ipad, then open the max patch, then enter the ip address of my ipad and re-save it. Is there a way to automatically find the ip address of a device and plug it into the UDP send object? My iPad runs the Lemur App and the lemur editor tells me the ipad's IP address and that is how I get the number which I then code into the MAx patch I would be grateful for any help. Thanks.
    • David Butler
      Jan 11 2013 | 10:12 am
      If you put the hostname of your iPad as the first argument to udpsend instead of its IP that should do it. I think an iPad's hostname is defined by it's name set via iTunes.
    • nick rothwell / cassiel
      Jan 11 2013 | 5:25 pm
      If the iPad offers any service announcements via Zeroconf, you might get some joy with this:
      https://github.com/cassiel/zeroconf
      You'd still need to do a click-to-select, but hopefully no typing of IPs.
    • startec
      Jan 12 2013 | 2:29 am
      Thanks guys. David, you were right, all I had to do was put in the ipad's hostname (which can be set in several ways) and then add ".local" so i had mIpad.local Also, for anyone curious, on the lemur app, you can set the osc target as computername.local (but actually put "computer's name") I wonder if this means you could send osc messages to a computer not on your network, but across the country.
    • startec
      Jan 12 2013 | 2:30 am
      And cassiel, I would be interested in what the items in that depository do, but it was a little unclear to me at this point.