Feature Request: Allow user to rename discovered devices

[stormi-cs]

This would be amazing if you could add a way for me to rename devices that were discovered during a scan. For instance, android phones show up as 'android-f78wh4rfyghw94hf39' or some long string, it would be very helpful if I could tap on the name of the discovered device and rename it to something useful, like 'my phone' or something.

i am not sure how exactly this would be implemented in code, but you could use a local database and associate the human-readable device labels with the MAC address of devices.. since MAC addresses will be unique, this would be a good way to keep track of devices across several networks, and when displaying the list of discovered devices, you could have it pull in the nicknames from the local database and display them.

let me know if this doesn't make sense, or if there's anything i can do to help out. i'm always willing to beta test!

thanks,
-shelley

[aaronjwood]

Thanks for the feedback Shelley! This is a great feature that I plan on adding and has been mentioned a little in a few other issues as well. The issue for me right now is time, I am a bit swamped with everything else going on in my life :) I think things should start to slow down soon though. I'm always open to contributions so if you want to send a PR feel free!

[TGWGitHub]

Any update on when this feature will be added please?

It's really a life saver feature especially on bigger networks with dozens of devices.