For some devices waiting 24 hours and then checking again can help. This can help resolve those names for you. Still don't know what a device is? Try rebooting your Circle, router, and closing the Circle app. Check out this article for more info on figuring out what device is what. Any device that appears in your device's list is connected to your network and you can use its MAC address to determine which device it is. When a device's name isn't clear, Circle will display the hostname set by the manufacturer. You might have a number of Android, Apple, Microsoft, or other unknown devices that appear when you first set up Circle Home Plus. Therefore, note the following information on certain entries that may appear in the "Devices and Users" list.Are you seeing a number of devices in the Circle app that you don't recognize? We can help! What's this device?Ĭircle grabs the name of a device in a number of ways, but sometimes that name is less than helpful. Since the FRITZ!Box also registers it when devices are briefly connected using a different connection type or IP address, it may appear that devices are listed several times or with an incorrect IP address, and/or with the incorrect connection type. Devices that are not currently connected to the FRITZ!Box are displayed with their last IP address. By default, devices that do not send their host names to the FRITZ!Box are displayed with their IP address (for example "PC-192-168-178-20") or powerline adapters are displayed with their network device names.Īll devices are displayed with their current IP address. The FRITZ!Box displays network devices with their host names if the devices send them to the FRITZ!Box when they obtain their IP settings via DHCP. Note:If it is not clear whether a list entry is a user or a device, then it is does not have a symbol. The symbol indicates a powerline adapter entries for Windows users for which parental controls been configured are not displayed with a symbol. One symbol indicates how the devices are connected: for wireless devices and for devices connected to the FRITZ!Box by network cable. Here the FRITZ!Box also displays all Windows users for which parental controls have been configured. The FRITZ!Box lists all computers, smartphones, and other network devices such as powerline adapters known to the FRITZ!Box under "Home Network > Network > Devices and Users" in the user interface.
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