The easiest way I found was through the web dashboard, so you would connect to the wifi hotspot to get to the web dashboard then use that to flip it in to direct connect mode on the ethernet side.
Regards using host name, I found that to work on my PC but we had issues with that on the Mac when Andy was at my place, but we did not have much time to play with it, and we did not try host name by direct connect ethernet as it was at that time hooked up to my ethernet setup at home and not in the same room to direct connect it.
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