Companion Remote Control Extender Friendly Name

[nuclearxp]

This is probably a question more specific to the WMC configuration of extenders, but I'll ask anyway (perhaps a Ceton Companion feature request?)

Is there a way to give extenders a friendly name. For example, when using the Ceton Companion app on my phone, when I select one of my 3 xboxes to control, if more than one is on at one time my poor family sees something like Mcx3-SERVER (server is the name of my server serving WMC video). It would be nice to have an option to assign these friendly names like "Living Room" so we don't have to guess which box we're going to control.

[barnabas1969]

This is a popular feature request, and Ceton has said that this feature is "in the works".

[Motz]

With the latest companion services we added a new "beta" channel that you can subscribe to under "about". We will be pushing out new features and posting them there for testing before doing official builds. I will create a sticky as to when new beta builds are released.

[bigpunk]

I noticed there is a new Beta Version (12.10.20.864) in the Companion App can you post a change log.

[mikinho]

I noticed there is a new Beta Version (12.10.20.864) in the Companion App can you post a change log.

Installer changes only:

1- Installer will clear older Yammm caches
2- Installer does not wait for the services to start before continuing

[nuclearxp]

Yeah I added this as a feature request. I noticed the beta channel but am not interested in following anything that isn't a full release. When it comes to paid software (even $5) I want the tried & true stuff. Leave beta testing for those that don't have families or have the time to mess with stuff!

[nuclearxp]

Do you know if, in the example of xbox extenders, ceton plans on using the console name which is available in the latest update? See: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/ ... ayto-setup. This would be nice to pull this by default and then provide a subsequent naming capability afterwards.

[nuclearxp]

Any response if ceton services can pickup and pass along an xbox extender friendly name per their latest update?

[erkotz]

We are implementing features in a future release to allow you to have more-friendly device names.

[nuclearxp]

erkotz - yeah I checked the ceton feature request list and noticed this was accepted. my question is more specifically, will the ceton cervices attempt to initially populate known "friendly" devices automatically - e.x. when it reaches out to and connects to xboxes, can it pull the "friendly name" we're now able to assign to our consoles. same principal would theoretically apply to other extenders i presume

[mikinho]

erkotz - yeah I checked the ceton feature request list and noticed this was accepted. my question is more specifically, will the ceton cervices attempt to initially populate known "friendly" devices automatically - e.x. when it reaches out to and connects to xboxes, can it pull the "friendly name" we're now able to assign to our consoles. same principal would theoretically apply to other extenders i presume

Sadly poor assumption. There are 3 different places you can rename Extenders and they are each used by different products. We won't be supporting all of them.

[bartman01]

erkotz - yeah I checked the ceton feature request list and noticed this was accepted. my question is more specifically, will the ceton cervices attempt to initially populate known "friendly" devices automatically - e.x. when it reaches out to and connects to xboxes, can it pull the "friendly name" we're now able to assign to our consoles. same principal would theoretically apply to other extenders i presume

Sadly poor assumption. There are 3 different places you can rename Extenders and they are each used by different products. We won't be supporting all of them.

Wouldn't it be better/more universal to just put this feature in the App itself instead of relying on features in the extender? Should be pretty straight forward to do a simple X=Y device assignment and then show the user 'Y' while using 'X' internally.

[mikinho]

You see it as a good solution but others are asking for the opposite

The feature is complete and will be in beta this week (wanted to release yesterday as Xmas update but...)

[barnabas1969]

You see it as a good solution but others are asking for the opposite

The feature is complete and will be in beta this week (wanted to release yesterday as Xmas update but...)

It's possible that not many of us asked for it to be a setting in the Companion Services because we assumed, based on your previous post, that it was not possible to get the friendly name from all extenders due to the fact that they all store it in a different way. In order to fully support all types of extenders, the only solution is to be able to enter the name in the settings of the Services application. Supporting only the Echo for friendly names is BS.

[mikinho]

It supports all extenders, I don't think anyone said anything different.

It just doesn't pull existing friendly names from all extenders.

[barnabas1969]

I thought I read in another thread that the friendly name will only work with Echo. If it works with all extenders, then that's wonderful. I don't care how the name gets into the app... as long as there is a way to do it with all extenders. I currently have an Echo, a DMA, and three HP's.

[bartman01]

I thought I read in another thread that the friendly name will only work with Echo. If it works with all extenders, then that's wonderful. I don't care how the name gets into the app... as long as there is a way to do it with all extenders. I currently have an Echo, a DMA, and three HP's.

I'm with you, the info on this seems contradictory from post to post. It would be nice to have a clear explanation on what the solution is going to be and how it applies to all extenders. The info I've seen indicates that it won't work with all extenders and that it appears to be written primarily to work with the new Ceton extenders.

If the plan is to get the name from the extender name somehow, I also think this would be a good feature to add 'in app' since the names many would want to present to family members may be far different than the names they want on the devices themselves.

[mikinho]

The post stated it will only rename the Echo device itself...as we obviously have control over that.

The implementation will be in the change logs when posted.

[foxwood]

I have two Linksys Extenders. There's an option somewhere in the menus on those Extenders to rename them (it's been a while, I'd have to check which menu it's on). On my Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines, the list of Network Devices shows the name that I have specified. I don't have an XBox - how does it show up in Windows?