I think a recents list would be good and when adding one maybe the cdvr api could give a list of the servers clients. otherwise a link to that settings page to quickly find the IP
edit; just realize I steped up the level there a bit.. any little bit still helps!
The dropdown would list the devices you defined in CHANNELS_CLIENTS, which is an OliveTin-for-Channels env var that's also used to send onscreen messages to clients. Those clients can be defined by resolvable hostname or IP address. I always use hostnames myself for easy identification.
What I'm hoping to do here is use values, tools and methods already available in OliveTin to achieve what you're requesting. 
no, I appreciate any and all effort! I forgot about the other client tool.
for some reason on my setup there's a docker to localhost connection that doesn't ^ always resolve the host names for me.
Do you use Tailscale? Have you established a domain name for your LAN (most decent routers support this) -- like localdomain or lan?
OliveTin has a DOMAIN variable, and you can set your LAN and Tailnet domain names there.
unless i'm missing something this is the closest i can get with a cheep router. I just saw I can change it, but it's been set to that the whole time, so unless case matters, the router should know the name. also, I am running a pi-hole.
With Pi-hole, that should be your DNS server in order for it to do anything. Go into your Pi-hole WebUI, and create local DNS records for whatever. E.G. shaggy-mancave could be assigned to 192.168.x.x. Then you could set CHANNELS_CLIENTS=shaggy-mancave, or CHANNELS_CLIENTS=shaggy-mancave shaggy-hometheater shaggy-snoozespot, to expand on the concept.
I might be the only one using this action, but can you update the stalexmlalerter.sh script to have curl follow redirects, curl -sL ...
Done. Pushed as bnhf/olivetin:latest (aka bnhf/olivetin:2026.03.26). Untested, so if you could confirm it works, that'd be appreciated.
Thanks. Working now.
