Avahi

Discover devices in your network by monitoring mDNS.

Categories: tool

Technologies: network

Avahi#

Avahi Monitor#

This integration plug-in allows nymea to discover and monitor zeroconf services in the local area network. Avahi is a free zeroconf implementation and is utilised by nymea. In nymea:app an added Avahi thing will appear as a presence sensor.

Supported Things#

  • Avahi Monitor

* List all zeroconf services in the local area network during device setup

* Displays the presence of the zeroconf service

* No internet or cloud connection required

Requirements#

  • The zeroconf service must be in the same local area network as nymea.

  • The router must not block avahi/zeroconf multicast messages

  • The package “nymea-plugin-avahimonitor” must be installed.

More#

See http://www.zeroconf.org for more information about the Zeroconf discovery protocol, or see https://www.avahi.org for more information about avahi.