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Typing it on your TV with a laggy UI where you can only select letters using arrow keys. Which only work half the time, and also it isn’t QWERTY.


It's so sad this is still necessary. We've had service discovery via avahi/zeroconf for years. Why does it seem like uPNP has been and gone? It shouldn't be necessary to type hostnames any more.




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