Roku Developer Program

[greubel]

Is there anyway to get the local network address without having the user type it in ? Maybe in the new SDK ?

[DeftOne]

Are you talking about the local network address of the Roku, or some other device connected to the network (PC, NAS, etc.)?

[greubel]

Need the address of the connection between the Roku and a user's router. It's normally something like 192.168.0.1

[DerekHelps]

If what you are wanting is a way to rename local IP Address and access their web interfaces by typing words into your browser you could try altering the hosts file to include a line like:

192.168.0.10 rokuplayer.dvp

path on Windows is:
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

I very well may be misundertstanding the question, sorry if irrelevant.

[RokuMarkn]

Can you explain why you want the address of the router? I can't think of anything you could do with that address that all routers will respond to, except maybe an ICMP ping.

--Mark

[greubel]

I need the base address of the local network to scan for a server running on a user's computer. I have a IP scanner set up to do this but the user has to know the local internet base address . The only way to find it out, is for the user to open the settings/device window on the Roku box. I'm trying to eliminate this scanning step for the user.

[Anonymous]

The info you need is not the router IP address but rather the local address and netmask. I don't think we have any sort of ifconfig type of utility at this time, though I've logged the request to add it to the SDK in a future release (no guarantees, though).

Patrick