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I changed my LAN setup recently, decided to split it into multiple subnets
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I also configured a hostname
mqttbroker
on my OpenWRT so that we don’t have to remember IP addresses -
I can resolve on CLI with just
ping mqttbroker
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But HA’s MQTT integration insists I specify it as
mqttbroker.lan
, otherwise it cannot reach the broker, why so special? -
The problem here is that, I cannot freely experiment with my network setup, each time I rename
lan
as something else, my entire MQTT breaks down until it gets updated in HA, in this case, what is the point of hostnames?