android app locking stream to device with password

[Peter]

Can you please enable diagnostic logging http://www.mezzmo.com/wiki/doku.php?id=using_logging&s[]=diagnostic then after restarting your Mezzmo media server try repeating this by streaming an R video to the pg device then send us the logs so we can investigate what is happening.

[stewart]

Can you please enable diagnostic logging http://www.mezzmo.com/wiki/doku.php?id=using_logging&s[]=diagnostic then after restarting your Mezzmo media server try repeating this by streaming an R video to the pg device then send us the logs so we can investigate what is happening.

Hi again looks like its working now tried on all tvs and works. Not shore why it was not working before must of been somthing i was doing. ONE think tho i still would like to lock out the devices accept the device they are using eg there app (tablet or phone) and there tv in there own room. I can just see my younger kids sending a (g) or (pg) to my older kids tv with a rating or (r) just to annoy them. Eg if my 18yo is watching a move and one of the younger kid sends a lower rating to the 18yo tv using there tablet or phone it will play on there tv stoping the move they are watching i can see a fight happening lol.

thanks

[Peter]

Glad to hear it is working, your idea for locking the app to only send content to a specific device is interesting. We could add a password or pin to lock the device list to only allow certain devices to be selected but this would not prevent using another app to play a file to the TV and interrupt the playing content. We may consider adding something like this.

[stewart]

maybe lock the tablet or phone to the device on the server side so only that phone or device will work with that tv or with itself

[Peter]

The app doesn't actually talk to the server when playing a file or when performing an action such as pause, stop, seek, etc. The app talks directly to the device and tells it which URL to request and then to stop, play or pause, etc. so it would not be possible to use the Mezzmo server to prevent actions being performed on the device.

[stewart]

maybe lock the tablet or phone to the device on the server side so only that phone or device will work with that tv or with itself

yep i realize that but i have a way around that lol i have locked the google play store on the tablets and phones giveing me more control this means they can not download other apps lol

[Peter]

One possible way you could keep them separate would be to put each TV and phone in a separate subnet and this would prevent them from controlling each other's TV using the app, this would probably require adding an extra router and also you would need to have the PC running Mezzmo server in both subnets.