PenkethBoy 2063 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 (edited) If you have more than one Shield (or other device) as it displays in the Emby Dashboard as "NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV AndroidTv 1.5.55g" Is there any way to know which one it is? - Can it be named in the App on the Shield so its given an identifier?? Yes i know i can name it under "devices" but if they both show the same name - not much use Edited March 3, 2018 by PenkethBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mastrmind11 717 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 (edited) I solved this by deleting shields from the device list and then firing up a shield, played something, and that let me determine which one it was, then named it in devices. Process of elimination. Unfortunately Emby does not honor the device's name as it's set on the device itself. I think I opened a FR for this a while back. Edited March 3, 2018 by mastrmind11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 Thanks yes i can find out which one it is - but will the server "know" it A vs B when they connect again and provide the default name? I.e. does it record the unique android ID of the Shield to do this? @@ebr - any option to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37118 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Yes the server will know the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 Cool - ok will give it a go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37118 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Doesnt the os have a friendly name setting you can customize as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14935 Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Doesnt the os have a friendly name setting you can customize as well? Yes, but it doesn't appear to be very easily accessible to the app. I tried a couple options I found and they didn't work on my NP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 Yes i had already changed the name on the shields - but as ebr said does not show up Changing in emby works via devices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdiguy 96 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 (edited) I will have to look into doing this as well. I have 2 mi boxes now, i named both of them in the android tv os but it doesnt show said name on the emby server dashboard. Ok that was actually very easy for me, used the last used by to tell which was which now i can tell which device is in use. Edited March 8, 2018 by tdiguy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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