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Allow aliases for devices

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#103 opened on Jun 28, 2018

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Description

Hi there, great project. Been having fun setting it up.

I have a feature request to make: allow setting up aliases for devices. Here's how my dashboard looks:

These devices are being reported from my router by a script I made. Now, I could have used the hostname but I don't want to take the chance that one of the devices changes name in the future, so I went with MAC address.

Having said that, it's very difficult to determine which device is which at a glance. I'd love to be able to send the hostname as an alias so it could be easily identified in the UI (which I use for manual learning).

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Research direction
Investigate the existing device identification and UI code to understand where device names are displayed. Then propose adding an optional alias field from the reporting script and display it in the dashboard.
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go
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backend
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3
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1-2 days
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