Client name in Network Overview

Hi there,

I have defined Clients based on the detected devices and provided a friendly name.

In the overview I see the name that is automatically found, but it is not always clear what client this is. Either because there a multiple devices with the same name of the name cannot be found.

Is there a way to add a column within the Network Overview to show the friendly name?

Cheers
Sjoerd

Can you post screenshots or logs?

Where did you provide friendly names? on the device itself?

Pi-hole web interface doesn't have the ability to give friendly names to devices. The Clients page has a comment field, but this comment is not used outside this page.

The Network page doesn't allow the addition of extra information.


If this is a Feature Request, we can move your topic to the correct category, but I'm not sure if this is possible.

Notes:
Pi-hole is essentially a DNS server.
From DNS point of view, a query is logged as coming from an IP, not from a hostname.

Pi-hole does at lot of steps to try to link the received IP with a hostname, but in most networks with DHCP an IP won't be always linked to the same device.
That's why sometimes an IP shows multiple hostnames at the same time and sometimes the same hostname is linked to multiple IPs (they change from time to time).

There is no guarantee a device will always use the same IP (unless you use static DHCP leases), so adding a "friendly name" to an IP might not bring the result you expect.

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