bpmod
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Hello all
First time poster.
I recently purchased a new 55" LG TV, 55UM6910PUC from Walmart. I have set it up and the one thing that I was interested in is being able to watch Youtube videos directly on my TV.
When I attempted to watch Youtube, however, I was taken to a 'download app' page. It seems that without downloading and installing the Youtube app, you are not able to access any videos through that service.
So, I installed the app.
Now, I have found out that anybody who comes into proximity of my TV can stream Youtube videos to it without my knowledge or consent. This has now been going on for a couple of months.
I called LG customer service today and spent an hour trying to have them answer how to prevent any random person with a phone from being able to stream content to my TV. I was simply looking for a setting that would allow me to block content that I have no control over.
The CSR basically told me to reset my TV to factory settings. So, I did that and then (after the extremely frustrating phone call was over) needed to spend a half hour or so reconfiguring everything, I mean everything, back to the way it was before. The CSR told me that should this happen again, the simple solution is to restore to factory settings. (Yes. Really simple!) She also told me that, before anybody can stream anything to my TV, there would be a pop-up message on the TV that I would have to acknowledge and agree to. I have never seen any such message and told her so.
Once I got everything set back up the way I wanted, I went to launch a Youtube video and discovered that I needed to download and install the app. That's when I remembered that I had done that upon first setting up the TV. I reinstalled the app and watched a video or two. I did notice when I installed the Youtube app this time around that the app turned on a setting 'turn on via wifi' and gave instructions as to how to turn that off. I immediately went into said settings and turned that off. It should also be noted that my TV is not connected via wifi, but by a wired connection.
I went back to watching something else and suddenly, as had happened several times before, I found myself watching somebody else's choice of video as some random person came along and started streaming content to my TV.
So, is there any person here who knows how to get Youtube content for yourself without opening up your TV to any random person in the neighbourhood?
Thanks
Brian
First time poster.
I recently purchased a new 55" LG TV, 55UM6910PUC from Walmart. I have set it up and the one thing that I was interested in is being able to watch Youtube videos directly on my TV.
When I attempted to watch Youtube, however, I was taken to a 'download app' page. It seems that without downloading and installing the Youtube app, you are not able to access any videos through that service.
So, I installed the app.
Now, I have found out that anybody who comes into proximity of my TV can stream Youtube videos to it without my knowledge or consent. This has now been going on for a couple of months.
I called LG customer service today and spent an hour trying to have them answer how to prevent any random person with a phone from being able to stream content to my TV. I was simply looking for a setting that would allow me to block content that I have no control over.
The CSR basically told me to reset my TV to factory settings. So, I did that and then (after the extremely frustrating phone call was over) needed to spend a half hour or so reconfiguring everything, I mean everything, back to the way it was before. The CSR told me that should this happen again, the simple solution is to restore to factory settings. (Yes. Really simple!) She also told me that, before anybody can stream anything to my TV, there would be a pop-up message on the TV that I would have to acknowledge and agree to. I have never seen any such message and told her so.
Once I got everything set back up the way I wanted, I went to launch a Youtube video and discovered that I needed to download and install the app. That's when I remembered that I had done that upon first setting up the TV. I reinstalled the app and watched a video or two. I did notice when I installed the Youtube app this time around that the app turned on a setting 'turn on via wifi' and gave instructions as to how to turn that off. I immediately went into said settings and turned that off. It should also be noted that my TV is not connected via wifi, but by a wired connection.
I went back to watching something else and suddenly, as had happened several times before, I found myself watching somebody else's choice of video as some random person came along and started streaming content to my TV.
So, is there any person here who knows how to get Youtube content for yourself without opening up your TV to any random person in the neighbourhood?
Thanks
Brian