On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:28:03 -0700 (PDT), Mathew Newton
wrote:

On Wednesday, 24 March 2021 at 10:47:09 UTC, T i m wrote:

I guess few domestic users would know anything about ip address
reservations and of those who do, even fewer might want to stipulate
the ip address.

I would expect most users that understand about static IP address reservations would also want to stipulate what those addresses are.

Agreed and why I think it strange that on most domestic routers you
can't?

} {
ip = 192.168.0.172;
name = "MacMini";
mac = 00:16:CB:A2:XX:XX;
medium = medium_ethernet;
} {

It might be stored elsewhere so will keep looking.


I've got a Fritzbox 7530 and, if fixing IP addresses from the DHCP pool, the following lines are added to the relevent LAN device entry:

manual_ip = yes;
staticlease = yes;

Ah, ok, I'll check again and look for that.

That's not to say yours will support these directives though.

Quite as it is fairly old now.

What's the actual model you've got?

According to it's admin page: 'FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7140 Annex A'

Cheers, T i m

p.s. You may be interested to know I followed up on your idea of
converting an existing trailing lead and making it smart (as with the
Shelly unit) and I opened up the TCM 219870 Master socket thing (it
was my Dads, it went wrong (turning on the master no longer activated
the 6 slaves) and I'd previously converted it to a plain 7 ways multi
socket) and am already in the process of turning it into a 4 way
switched, one permanently live (all via the main on/ off switch) as by
removing the last two sockets and their bus bars I can easily get the
4 way relay board and an ESP32 in the end. A bit of 3D printing to
hold the relay board and ESP32 to the now unused socket mounting posts
and I should be good to go. ;-)

Luckily the bus bars are real brass strip and screw onto the back of
each of the sockets so I can either cut the strip up, drill holes for
the wire and solder, or remove the strip completely and use crimp /
ring terminals. It really was an ideal solution. ;-)