How to display current IP address on Dashboard

[DeLannie]

Is there a away to display the current IP address of the HE on the dashboard?

[bobbles]

@thebearmay has released a 'Hub Information' driver.
This has an attribute that displays the local IP address.
You could display that attribute on a dashboard.
As @aaiyar has said below though, it is best to set up DHCP reservation for your hub.

[RELEASE] Hub Information Driver

NOTE: Development on this version ended 11 Jan 2023 - see [RELEASE] Hub Information Driver v3 for the new version. This device driver provides a convenient way to access many of the hub and hub location attributes. Originally written to provide information for Node-Red integration, the driver has been expanded to include temperature, free memory, cpuLoadtotal JVM Memory, Free JVM Memory and JVM Free % from the Hidden Features Wiki as well as over 40 more attributes. Available through HPM, or …

[aaiyar]

@DeLannie

current IP address of the HE

It may be. However, it is strongly recommended to setup a DHCP reservation for the hub, so it’s IP never changes.

[DeLannie]

correction, I'm looking for the current "public" IP address to the HE, I want to display the "public" IP in the dashboard. The amazon hubitat server must know the public IP in order to host the data on the dashboard, correct? So does the HE also know the public IP?

[bobbles]

Once again, hub information driver can do this for you.

[rlithgow1]

[DeLannie]

awesome, thanks