{"id":473,"date":"2011-03-25T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=473"},"modified":"2017-04-19T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T20:56:28","slug":"device-registration-and-mac-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/03\/25\/device-registration-and-mac-addresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Device Registration and MAC Addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just added a new feature called <a title=\"ThingSpeak Devices App\" title=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/devices (link no longer works)\">Devices<\/a>. This allows you to register your\u00a0home-brew\u00a0devices and\u00a0receive\u00a0a globally\u00a0unique\u00a0<a title=\"Wiki on MAC Addresses\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MAC_address\" target=\"_blank\">MAC address<\/a>. Some devices do not come with a MAC address so often the MAC address used is the one that the example source code is using. If you end up putting two Ethernet or WiFi devices on the same local network with the same MAC address, odd situations will\u00a0occur\u00a0and will not be obvious to troubleshoot. The Devices App from ThingSpeak can generate a random MAC address or generate a globally unique address from our address pool. We have a limit to the number of global addresses we can generate, so feel free to jump in and grab one for your <em><strong>Thing<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, we will add more features to the Devices application. If there is interest, we are thinking of setting up a dynamic DNS service. This is so you can use a consistent URL to access your device from the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, check the <a title=\"Devices documentation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/help\/thingspeak\/\/#devices\">Documentation<\/a> or click the <a title=\"Devices app from ThingSpeak\" title=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/devices (link no longer works)\">Devices<\/a> tab when you are signed into ThingSpeak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just added a new feature called Devices. This allows you to register your\u00a0home-brew\u00a0devices and\u00a0receive\u00a0a globally\u00a0unique\u00a0MAC address. Some devices do not come with a MAC address so often the MAC&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2011\/03\/25\/device-registration-and-mac-addresses\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[48,47,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}