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Use powershell to get device names and their ipaddress on a home network

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This question arises from trying to manage my home wifi network. I've been toying with commands such as get-netipaddress, ipconfig and nslookup.exe.

The following command has kind of led me somewhere but it doesn't have the information that i'm looking for.

Get-NetIPAddress | Format-Table

I would like to be able to get a list of all devices on my home network. Including the device ip address, and some sort of name for that device. The previous command gives an ipaddress but it looks more like a mac address? Any help is appreciated!