Sync logins between devices

[crusher11 1245]

I have an NVIDIA Shield running the universal Android app, a UGOOS AM6B+ running EmbyCon, and Home Assistant.

Is there a way I can set it up so that whenever a user logs in on the Shield, that same user is logged in on the UGOOS? I only need it to work for accounts that already have their passwords saved on both devices.

[RanmaCanada 567]

AFAIK that is not possible as the user must physically log in. This is like asking if you can log into multiple PC's at the same time while not physically accessing them.

But I'm not a dev. It might be possible to script something like this through home assistant, but it could potentially open you up to security issues.

[crusher11 1245]

As I said, the passwords are already saved on the devices, so there are no security implications here.

[ebr 16591]

20 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

so there are no security implications here.

There would be a security implication by what he suggested because it would open an attack vector that isn't currently there.

[crusher11 1245]

1 hour ago, ebr said:

There would be a security implication by what he suggested because it would open an attack vector that isn't currently there.

If you're in my theater room in order to log into the Shield, you can just as readily log in to the UGOOS directly . It just takes an appalling number of button clicks and deep knowledge of the menus, plus waiting for it to reboot. 

[ebr 16591]

2 hours ago, crusher11 said:

If you're in my theater room in order to log into the Shield, you can just as readily log in to the UGOOS directly . It just takes an appalling number of button clicks and deep knowledge of the menus, plus waiting for it to reboot. 

I'm not sure how that is relevant to the security issue but, in any case, this is such a niche situation that something custom will need to be created and it may be possible with HA as Ranma suggested.

[crusher11 1245]

20 hours ago, ebr said:

I'm not sure how that is relevant to the security issue

If the only way to log in to the Shield is to be physically present, and the only way to log in to the UGOOS is to be physically present, and they're in the same room, there's no change in security if I get the logins synced.

[ebr 16591]

35 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

If the only way to log in to the Shield is to be physically present, and the only way to log in to the UGOOS is to be physically present, and they're in the same room, there's no change in security if I get the logins synced.

The suggestion was to create an integration with HA.  That has no "physically present" requirement and no automation that you could create in that regard would.