Apologies if this should be posted somewhere else.
I have had this TV for about 7 years and have never had this pop up before. About a month ago, I bought a router that uses OpenWRT. With that, I setup up Adguard and specifically one of the lists that is supposed to block devices from phoning home.
Am I nuts thinking that this pop up is due to the TV not being able to offload what has been recorded? How would I check that?
Not on the TV. It won’t accept one that doesn’t work, and remembers and reverts to any old one if it can’t connect to the new one.
I could change the router SSID or password, but I have far too many devices, and a MAC address block was the quick option.
If its android be careful. Found out the hard way trying to fixed-ip a tablet on my 3D printer that they can report a false macID and it changes
Fyi on Android this is a setting you can disable if you want, when you edit the network there should be a privacy option.
There’s not really a reason to have a randomised MAC on a home network, but for pretty much everywhere else it’s a good thing the default is to have it randomised per connection.
Actually did that, but it kept changing regardless. Samsung 9 tablet FWIW
So here’s an idea.
When you first get it, connect it to a working guest network that you just made.
Then shutdown the guest network and make sure there are no open Wi-Fi networks in your area.
Alternative: set up a dummy wifi network, then coonect your TV to it, then configure that network such that it’s not connected to the Internet.
Yeah, but you will have to make a fake Samsung/LG server with the correct IP address, use a quantum computer to get their https private keys and reforge a certificate for that fake server and implement all required API endpoints before you can make the TV activate.
Great advice which is completely inapplicable to the person you are giving it to, considering they already set their TV up ages ago.
And the advice to anyone about to get a new Samsung or LG TV is “Don’t.”
I have seen the answer to that…
The person absolutely wants 4K 50" for some reason and monitors that come for that much are industrial ones that cost 5x as much.
I am more than happy with 27" and don’t even require 4K, so MSI, ViewSonic etc work well.
Dumb video projectors are a thing.
yeah but nowhere near the video quality.
I’ve had the same 40" LG OLED TV for like 15 years now, and I want to get myself a new big 4k OLED 65" behemoth for Christmas this year. I looked up hospitality TVs of that size and whoo boy, they’re like $3-4k. But you can get a regular TV that size and spec for like $1k.
I have no open Wifi in my house or nearby, I plan on just using it as a second monitor for my computer, and never connecting it to anything beyond my soundbar. Then just hope that it doesn’t brick itself I guess.
Yeah, I would expect those thingies to also have much better quality internals, that are less probable to cause the kinds of problems that might happen in industrial environments.
I would expect it to start nagging you and then eventually degrade into unusability. Which is why I won’t buy such snitch devices.
I guess it depends on the severity of nagging, and how long until it becomes unusable. The 40" LG TV I’ve had for over 15 years is still running strong, thing doesn’t even know what time it is. I dunno. Maybe just not connecting it to anything would work?
15 years ago is another thing entirely. I would expect outright malice and dirty tricks in current gear. Not buying them would seem like a wise precaution.
If I can find that thread, I will link it to you.
You can convince that chap to not buy a smart tv.
a Mac address block works but may not work on newer devices. next time you may have to bite the bullet.