android app locking stream to device with password

[stewart]

hi i tryed that eg i set the device to rating g in the device manager and the andiord app to rating r int the drvice manager and the app override the device and played the r movie

i don't think you understand what im saying ill try to be more clear

let say there are two rooms both rooms have a media player with two different rattings we will say peter is G and sam is R

Now both kids have a phone and have the mezzmo app on it peter android phone is set to G in the device manager and sam's is set to R Both phones can see both media players in the stream to device in the mezzmo app setting peters is set to (G no problem because sam can watch (G) anywhay) and sam is set to (R) Big problem keep reading

Now if peter (G) goes to sam (R) and ask sam to stream a (R) rated video or file to peters media player (G) it will stream and play on peters media player.

Now if the select stream to device was password protected in the mezzmo android app this would mean sam with (R) could not stream to peter (G) because he would not be able to select his device.

EVEN BETTER would be to have a option to lock the phone device mac address to the media player mac address or ip's so they could not share high ratings with low rating devices maybe theres a better way but that is the problem with the andiord app it can stream high rating videos to a device that is ment to be set lower.

thanks hope this helps

[Hania22]

very Nice Idea as well .

[Peter]

I tested this here and found that if you set the content rating to G on the device then this allows all content to be streamed to it because the minimum age for G is 'None' or 0. The setting for the Device is 'Do not stream files with the following content rating or higher' so setting it to G should prevent all files from playing as the content rating will test to see if the minimum age is less than 0, try setting it to 'M' or 'PG-13' if you are using US Content Ratings and this will prevent an R rated file being streamed to the device.

[stewart]

i was using (G) as a sample it dose the same if a device is set to pg or (m) it does not work its a HUGE hole in the android app. you are not understanding what im saying maybe i know more about your app than you do lol anyone keen to try and explane it to them better because im tell you it does not work and is a huge security problem.

[Peter]

When a device requests a file from the Mezzmo server the content rating of the file is checked against the current content rating settings for that device, if the file's content rating is above the content rating set for the device then a 403 forbidden response is returned to the device. If in the Mezzmo android app you have used the PIN in settings to unlock the content ratings then the file will be able to be streamed to the device regardless of the content rating set. We have tested both of these scenarios here using the same setup you have described and the only way to stream the R rated file to the device is if the PIN is entered, please check to see if you have http://www.mezzmo.com/wiki/doku.php?id=mezzmo_android_bypass_content_rating_r estrictions&s[]=pin the PIN set. You can try exiting the Mezzmo android app then change the PIN in Options in Mezzmo then run the Android app again to see if the file still plays on the device when played from the android app.

[stewart]

Werd then because if i have say a media device set to (pg) in the device manager and i have the cellphone app set to (R) in the device manager. Then i tell the phone to stream a video that is (R) to that media device that is set to (pg) it will play on that device ????

[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.