For an unknown reason my BBC account has just been lost from my TV, and
I've been asked to sign in again - for the first time in well over a
year. Unfortunately, although I'd been able to sign in again with a new password on my laptop, I couldn't access anything on the TV which
allowed me to sign in to that.
After three attempts I finally got back into the TV. Anybody else had
this issue recently with their BBC account?
On 26/11/2021 20:39, Jeff Layman wrote:
For an unknown reason my BBC account has just been lost from my TV, and
I've been asked to sign in again - for the first time in well over a
year. Unfortunately, although I'd been able to sign in again with a new
password on my laptop, I couldn't access anything on the TV which
allowed me to sign in to that.
After three attempts I finally got back into the TV. Anybody else had
this issue recently with their BBC account?
Don't you just login on the PC, go to a web page and enter the number
that is displayed on the TV.
That's how most smart TVs join these days (BBC/Youtube/CH5/Ch4/4Play),
you don't need to enter the password on the TV.
For an unknown reason my BBC account has just been lost from my TV, and
I've been asked to sign in again - for the first time in well over a year. Unfortunately, although I'd been able to sign in again with a new password
on my laptop, I couldn't access anything on the TV which allowed me to
sign in to that.
After three attempts I finally got back into the TV. Anybody else had this issue recently with their BBC account?
--
Jeff
On 26/11/2021 20:39, Jeff Layman wrote:
For an unknown reason my BBC account has just been lost from my TV, and
I've been asked to sign in again - for the first time in well over a
year. Unfortunately, although I'd been able to sign in again with a new
password on my laptop, I couldn't access anything on the TV which allowed
me to sign in to that.
After three attempts I finally got back into the TV. Anybody else had
this issue recently with their BBC account?
Don't you just login on the PC, go to a web page and enter the number that
is displayed on the TV.
That's how most smart TVs join these days (BBC/Youtube/CH5/Ch4/4Play), you don't need to enter the password on the TV.
--
Adrian C
On 26/11/2021 21:14, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 26/11/2021 20:39, Jeff Layman wrote:
For an unknown reason my BBC account has just been lost from my TV, and
I've been asked to sign in again - for the first time in well over a
year. Unfortunately, although I'd been able to sign in again with a new
password on my laptop, I couldn't access anything on the TV which
allowed me to sign in to that.
After three attempts I finally got back into the TV. Anybody else had
this issue recently with their BBC account?
Don't you just login on the PC, go to a web page and enter the number
that is displayed on the TV.
That's how most smart TVs join these days (BBC/Youtube/CH5/Ch4/4Play),
you don't need to enter the password on the TV.
That's what's supposed to happen. I got logged on using the laptop, but I could only use iPlayer on the TV as a guest (via a phone PIN). On the
third attempt the TV recognised I was signed in on the laptop and I had access to iPlayer on the TV.
I find it odd that you can't sign in directly on the TV. Why isn't it possible to enter a username and password via the TV's iPlayer app without messing around with a computer/smartphone?
--
Jeff
I find it odd that you can't sign in directly on the TV. Why isn't it possible to enter a username and password via the TV's iPlayer app
without messing around with a computer/smartphone?
On 26/11/2021 22:14, Jeff Layman wrote:
I find it odd that you can't sign in directly on the TV. Why isn't it
possible to enter a username and password via the TV's iPlayer app
without messing around with a computer/smartphone?
Perhaps on-screen keyboards are too complicated for each platform, or
the TV platform is too insecure to be trusted with hashing and
communicating passwords.
On this Amazon stick, iPlayer offered me an option to use a landline, to
sign up without a mobile or computer. However, most (if not all) users
of the Amazon stick are _very_ connected to the internet and email, so I don't think there will be many takers of that feature.
On 26/11/2021 21:14, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 26/11/2021 20:39, Jeff Layman wrote:
For an unknown reason my BBC account has just been lost from my
TV, and I've been asked to sign in again - for the first time in
well over a year. Unfortunately, although I'd been able to sign in
again with a new password on my laptop, I couldn't access anything
on the TV which allowed me to sign in to that.
After three attempts I finally got back into the TV. Anybody else
had this issue recently with their BBC account?
Don't you just login on the PC, go to a web page and enter the
number that is displayed on the TV.
That's how most smart TVs join these days
(BBC/Youtube/CH5/Ch4/4Play), you don't need to enter the password
on the TV.
That's what's supposed to happen. I got logged on using the laptop,
but I could only use iPlayer on the TV as a guest (via a phone PIN).
On the third attempt the TV recognised I was signed in on the laptop
and I had access to iPlayer on the TV.
I find it odd that you can't sign in directly on the TV. Why isn't
it possible to enter a username and password via the TV's iPlayer
app without messing around with a computer/smartphone?
On 22:14 26 Nov 2021, Jeff Layman said:
That's what's supposed to happen. I got logged on using the laptop,
but I could only use iPlayer on the TV as a guest (via a phone PIN).
On the third attempt the TV recognised I was signed in on the laptop
and I had access to iPlayer on the TV.
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