Mac Port Name vanished in BomeBox

Bome Products
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In the BomeBox Web Editor, the name for my computer’s port has suddenly disappeared. I suspect that Sequoia (MacOS 15.1.1) is to blame.

In the screenshot below the alias ‘- Mac’ comes from a loaded BMT project and was always assigned to ‘Peter-mac-mini’ in the web interface. Since a couple of days the name is gone and there is a number/letter code I have to choose:

BomeBox_-MIDI_Ports-_BomeBox

Unfortunately the code seems to change on restart or something, I’ve had to reassign the port several times already.

I can’t find the computer name anywhere. Is there anything I can do to make it reappear, apart from hoping that an Apple update will fix it?

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Did you try this?

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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I tried this now, names are set and I’ve overwritten them with the same names.
The computer’s name is ‘Peter Mac mini’.
The local hostname is ‘Peter-Mac-mini.local’.

‘Peter-Mac-mini’ is the name I used to see in the BomeBox web interface. It is no longer here. Just restarted the BomeBox, the computer’s name is still absent, the code is the same as before.

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From this article, it looks like there is a computer name and a host name which are now separate. Try changing your computer’s host name.

This is not a BomeBox issue. It reports the name as set by the broadcasting host (your Mac).

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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Changing the host name did not help.
I also think that this is a Mac OS issue.
Thank you anyway!

6

Did you report the issue to Apple? If it is a new device, it should have AppleCare.

Steve

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255765230?sortBy=rank

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Also, if you are using both WiFi and ethernet, turn one of them off.

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Yes, I reported this to Apple.

Thanks for the link, I will try some of the suggestions. Just cannot reboot right now because I am downloading a large sound library.

I seem to have a WiFi problem also, like described on the Apple page. Normally I’m wired to the BomeBox but after it stopped working and I could no find the problem, I wanted to do a fresh setup. But I did not get a WiFi connection, maybe because of this ‘Limit IP Numbers’ feature in the Mac’s system settings which is activated by default. Furthermore, my BomeBox does not read reset files from an USB stick but I think it is the fault of the stick. Big mess here, currently.

This time I was too quick with the system update and this is now the penalty for that :slight_smile:

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We’ll look into that. Looks like an IPv6 address instead of the name.
On iOS and iPadOS, Apple disallows apps to see the device name. Maybe something like that is happening on macOS, too. I had not experienced that in our tests.

Fortunately, you can override the name in the Bome Network settings:

Gear icon
→ Network Settings
→ Network Name

That will not change the host name of the computer, but BomeBox and other Bome Network devices should then see that name.

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To me it looks like a MAC Address.

I didn’t think you could apply the trick to BomeBox as you do for Bome Network.

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Yup, that was it. Thank you!
Actually, the address code was written into the network name of Bome Network. I had not seen that. Now everything is running flawlessly as before.

I am pretty sure it came with MacOS 15.1 or 15.1.1