Weird one here. I’m looking to set my HA Green to have more than one IP address on my network. Is there a way to do this?
Background, if anyone is wondering why I’d want to do this: I have a remote control that can connect directly to an Emulated Roku in Home Assistant, and I’d like to make several Emulated Rokus so the remote can control one device with each. Typically multiple Emulated Rokus are distinguished with different ports under the same IP address, but through an issue with my remote it only recognizes them under port 8060. Someone on another forum got around this by setting a different IP address for each Emulated Roku, and I’m hoping to do the same. They were able to do it with Docker, but I have a HA Green so their method won’t work for me.
It's not just setting multiple IPs to HA, Mike... Each instance of the CONTAINER running your software needs a different IP. (that's why docker can do that.)
The way Ha exposes external services that's not happening. They all get proxies to the HA base addr. And any addr ha owns so if you manage to multi home HA (also see all the issues on the forum on that subject - HA is designed for flat networks...) you'd be broadcasting the same service on all ha IPs serving that port [0.0.0.0:port] so you're back in the same boat.
You'll have to separate the container for that and have it obtain an external isolated ip... I do not think there is a way to do that, at all?, easily... That will stick... In HAOS. (running HAOS on your green I assume?) HAOS isn't designed for complicated network configs. It can do some but what you're asking for is... Complex in HAOS at best. (read: I wouldn't want to try to battle that dragon)
How does one device using different IPs get to work out which IP session belongs to which instance of the app? Ain't going to happen (by design) - TCP networking doesn't work that way.
Examine your Roku requirements for alternative approaches. Is multiple instance of Roku running on your green the optimum path to achieve what you really want? Maybe that can be modified to do what you want, or try a different integration/app.
Is UDP preferred (broadcast rather than point to point)? Does it support that? How to differentiate each controller?