72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by GekkePrutser on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:33AM (#25314413)

The Amazon Fire TV does this already :(

If it doesn't see internet it just blocks itself and goes to a screen "Oops I have no internet".

So you can forget about watching movies from your local server using the VLC app as well. Ridiculous.

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by moonbug on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:08AM (#25314647)

makes it utterly useless in an IPv6+NAT64 environment, incidentally.

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by tguvot on Saturday December 05, 2020 @12:36PM (#25316398)

You can go to settings > installed application and lunch VLC or anything else directly from there

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by GekkePrutser on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:19PM (#25320052)

I'm pretty sure the last time my internet was down I couldn't get into anything but the wifi settings. But I'll try it next time, thanks for the tip!

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by tguvot on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:57PM (#25320299)

You can go back from network settings back to settings or something like this. just poke around. Discovered it when comcast went down for 4 days and wanted to run kodi on firetv

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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by hda2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:27PM (#25320479)

Amazon also tends to hide options until you "try" connecting to your network. My device refused to work without internet until I "tried" connecting to my network using an incorrect password. When I did that and the device failed, an option to skip network setup appeared. In small font at the bottom of the screen, of course.

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