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How to get LAN ip to a variable in a Windows batch file

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Mar 15, 202655176 views

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I'm streaming audio from my Windows 7 laptop to a sound card attached to a router. I have a little batch script to start streaming. As you see the http stream is hard coded. It would be nice to get the address dynamically to reuse the script on other machines. Any ideas?

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REM Kill any instances of vlc 
taskkill /im vlc.exe
"c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" <parameters to start http streaming>
REM Wait for vlc
TIM…

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Here is a simple example that will get the ipv4 address of the current machine: This just echos out the IP but you can integrate it in. Or you can try this and not use temporary files:

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