How to enable mDNS

scp · October 22, 2025, 8:25am

How can I enable mDNS support on PIFI on a RaspberryPi4

pifi · October 23, 2025, 1:50pm

Apologies for delayed response, Can I confirm the objective of using mDNS - is it just to be able to access admin via a hostname rather than 192.168.3.14?

It may or may not be what you’re looking for but pi.fi is used as a hostname so if you enter that it should load

Also, some package mentioned here too may be of use since PiFi is ultimately Openwrt under the hood.

yes, install the umdns package. it doesn't need configuring.

ps. if you install wsdd2 you get llmnr too

https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/n1xoch/enable_mdns/

scp · October 23, 2025, 9:44pm

The purpose is allowing application to discovery of controlled devices logged into to the WiFi.

How do I add?

pifi · October 24, 2025, 1:03pm

Go to Pyramid App > Settings > More Settings > Advanced (LuCI) and sign in
Go to System > Software
Click Update lists, then search for umdns
Click Install
(Optional) For Windows-style discovery as well, you can also install wsdd2

No configuration is normally needed — once umdns is installed, it starts automatically and allows other devices or apps to discover services on the network (like AirPlay, DLNA, HomeKit, etc.).

This should work as it’s OpenWrt underneath but this question is very in the realm of general Openwrt question and there is probably a lot of ‘how to enable mdns on openwrt’ solutions out there - above is how to access LuCI for openwrt

pifisusk · October 28, 2025, 4:15am

Hello, people! Maybe you can help… My PiFi does not seem to want to ‘hand out’ to my IOT gadgets the desired DNS, which is good 'ol 8.8.8.8 It is handing out 192.168.1.1

I came across this thread…I attempted ‘Update Lists’ …and was rewarded with thisw.

Downloading https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/telephony/Packages.gz
*** Failed to download the package list from https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/telephony/Packages.gz
Errors
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
Failed to send request: Operation not permitted
Collected errors:

opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.pifi.org/1.5.2/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.
opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targets/bcm27xx/bcm2712/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.
opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/base/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.
opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/luci/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.
opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/packages/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.
opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/routing/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.
opkg_download: Failed to download https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/telephony/Packages.gz, wget returned 4.
opkg_download: Check your network settings and connectivity.
The opkg update command failed with code 7

If I put one of these downloads simply into a browser, it indeed downloads it and saves to my PC

Please help !!
thank you
John