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authorAnilDaoud <anil+git@via.ecp.fr>2019-05-22T05·27+0800
committerDaniel Høyer Iversen <mail@dahoiv.net>2019-05-22T05·27+0200
commitb8fdf337c9a60d74437bf88fa07134e651f7c0fa (patch)
tree75bf29ba68a6dfab2e3a3cce4e736a52d59bc504
parenta75f98720ec22e9857ef815f594952f34ed5485c (diff)
cleaner local ip address lookup (#244)
-rw-r--r--broadlink/__init__.py4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/broadlink/__init__.py b/broadlink/__init__.py
index 582f64d7fe82..c3b2cecd1a7d 100644
--- a/broadlink/__init__.py
+++ b/broadlink/__init__.py
@@ -63,9 +63,7 @@ def gendevice(devtype, host, mac):
 
 def discover(timeout=None, local_ip_address=None):
     if local_ip_address is None:
-        s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
-        s.connect(('8.8.8.8', 53))  # connecting to a UDP address doesn't send packets
-        local_ip_address = s.getsockname()[0]
+        local_ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
     address = local_ip_address.split('.')
     cs = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
     cs.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)