Forum Discussion

leeroyjones's avatar
leeroyjones
Joining in
2 years ago
Solved

Pausing devices

Hi, We have been able to pause devices as and when needed for some time now. However, my 12 year old son has somehow managed to bypass it and stop his tv (YouTube etc) from staying paused. Can anyon...
  • carl_pearce's avatar
    carl_pearce
    2 years ago

    A MAC address is used by VM as the mechanism to pause a unique device.

    Most mobile phones can use a random MAC address.

    If the TV is Android based it's possible there could be an option to randomize the MAC address, so there is nothing you can do.

    Or they could be switching between wired and wireless (Each interface will have a different MAC address so you'd need to pause both!).

carl_pearce's avatar
carl_pearce
Superstar
2 years ago

A MAC address is used by VM as the mechanism to pause a unique device.

Most mobile phones can use a random MAC address.

If the TV is Android based it's possible there could be an option to randomize the MAC address, so there is nothing you can do.

Or they could be switching between wired and wireless (Each interface will have a different MAC address so you'd need to pause both!).