# How to access the hostname of the machine running Home Assistant?

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**Created:** [11 June 2021 23:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-to-access-the-hostname-of-the-machine-running-home-assistant/47055 "2021-06-11T23:59:19Z")\
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Hello steve2020  
For my part, I had solved this problem in this [way](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-commands-from-a-docker-container-on-the-host-where-it-run/46492). Maybe you are interested.  
Well it's to get the IP address of the host, but same idea to get the name of the host

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