Any ideas on how I can search for an Ip address (on a client window) among all of my OPC devices connected?

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Any ideas on how I can search for an Ip address (on a client window) among all of my OPC devices connected? Any built-in script functions that would allow me to design a window that searches all of the ip addresses from all of my OPC devices and give the result as the Device name?

I have Ignition 7.9.6

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I don’t exactly remember when getDeviceHostName was implemented but I have it on 7.9.9

def findDevice(hostIn):
	data = system.device.listDevices()
	deviceList = data.getColumnAsList(data.getColumnIndex("Name"))
	hostList = [system.device.getDeviceHostname(device) for device in deviceList]
	try:
		index = hostList.index(hostIn)
		return deviceList[index]
	except ValueError:
		return 'host not found'
		
host = '192.168.140.241'

print findDevice(host)

If this is something you’ll be doing a lot, I’d recommend using a gateway timer script to collate everything into a dataset memory tag every so often, then use a lookup exression in the client.

# Gateway Timer Script
data = system.device.listDevices()
deviceList = data.getColumnAsList(data.getColumnIndex('Name'))
hostList = [system.device.getDeviceHostname(device) for device in deviceList]

dataOut = system.dataset.addColumn(data, hostList, 'Hostname', str)

system.tag.write('[default]path/to/dataset/tag', dataOut)

Expression example:

lookup({path/to/dataset/tag}, hostnameToLookUp, 'Host not found', 'Hostname', 'Name')
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I’ll give it a try. I really appreciate your help. Thank you very much.