Avahi equivalent

ESPHome
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Anyone know how from 1x esphome node you can scan the local network it is on to find all the devices that are advertising mdns services ?

I’m trying to avoid hard coding IPs on the local network, and looking for a way for the esp to find all the IPs with devices on the local network.

Thanks in advance

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IMHO so far there is no ready to use code to “scan” mDNS directly on ESPHome node.
What You plan to do with list of devices on ESPHome node ? Just curious.

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You can’t discover without scanning ip’s individually, but you can query the ip’s like this under linux for example:

Wyse-7040:~$ avahi-resolve -a 10.0.0.1
10.0.0.1	pfsense.homenet.lan