fing renamed some of my devices on desktop, phone android app still shows correct

bigswifty00000
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Hi All,
Is anyone using Fingbox on their network? To address your query, I would like to tell you that if you have Fingbox and then you install Fing desktop then, first of all, you will see multiple networks under your account. Only those networks will merge from Fing mobile app and Fing desktop which are without Fingbox.Also, if you are in the mobile app and then you open Fing Desktop network then names, customization will merge but not with the Fingbox network. And if you have iOS 11+ without mac address and if you run a scan from there, you will see another network w/o any mac address. If you open the network pushed by Fing desktop, you will see it but will not be able to refresh from mobile.
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Hi @bigswifty00000 thanks for asking your question.I'm going to ask @Marc to help on this one, since he has a bit more Apple experience than I do. I know just enough to get in trouble with, but we'd definitely want to know more about what you're experiencing and see if we can recreate it or not."There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy."
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Marc:
Thanks for the quick response!
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Hey @bigswifty00000 , trying to get a handle on your issue. You used Fing Desktop, set the names the way you wanted and they went away? Can you share a screenshot of one of the devices before and after ?
Keep in mind that the desktop and mobile are are not the same nor do they share information between them. Hence changes you make on the mobile app (Android or iPhone) do not translate to the desktop.
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Marc said:@Robin you might want to make the above explanation on the two devices interactions a permanent one. (Sticky message).
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bigswifty00000 said:Hi Robin!
I don't have a fingbox, but this happened after upgrading fing desktop.
Very surprised to hear desktop and app have and store different information.
I would think it would be shared so a change on one gets updated in the other...
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Another Apple feature!!
Thanks!
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I don't know if this helps, but there can be minor differences in the presentation of names between the Android version and the PC version. Nothing major that I can see, but as an example, the game controller for Stadia shows as Stada-ada4 on the PC, but on the app it's Stadia-ada4.lan (having to set lan as local domain to keep a couple of raspberry pi apps happy).0
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Thanks @kjalger.
I had noticed minor differences, but this was a complete rename from human back to model #? on desktop...
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