Should new devices be given 9-octet IDs by default?

[marcosscriven]

Thanks for your efforts on this project - really nice to be able to integrate with Alexa without fiddling with adding skills.

It took me a while to get this going with a simple test http device - eventually it seems the device ID has to:

1. Have no hyphen in (see Link Button? #1272 (comment))
2. Have 9 octets (see Amazon Echo still not recognize 5.4.0 #1270 (comment))

Mine was of the form nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn-nn. Initially I just tried changing the hyphen to a colon, but still no devices discovered , despite ./api/devices looking fine, and seeing all the expected UPnP trace logs.

I'm happy to update the wiki /trouble shooting (at the very least) to mention this, so people don't get too frustrated.

I'd also be interested in fixing the code to just generate the right form to start with - but only if you agree that's as expected?

[marcosscriven]

Digging in I see @crush157's commit adding this as an option 7f72b03

However, I don't see any discussion or background on the PR.

Should this now be set to true by default?

[guy1958]

Yes, I'd check that box by default.