simple-scan does not rember device
I am trying to get simple-scan (version 44.0) to work on a linuxfromscratch system with a networked (ethernet) Officejet_Pro_6970 printer/scanner. The problem is that simple-scan does not find the scanner. If from the command line I pass:
simple-scan hpaio:/net/Officejet_Pro_6970?ip=192.168.0.204
the scanner is recognized and works. Is there a way to configure the program to remember the device? I can, of course, edit simple-scan.desktop to add the device and create a script as a shim to pass when running from the command line, but having a configuration item in $HOME/.config/state or similar file would be a lot more convenient.
I do realize that this problem seems to be specific to hp scanners and the real culprit may be sane (sane-backends-1.2.1) and/or hplip (version 3.23.12).
Any advice will be appreciated. TIA.