While working on imports, we finally enable the ability to put them in the Trash. This upset many of you as you wanted to make sure they were always protected. We agreed! But you also wanted to be able to control this server side, not from the client's settings.
We thought on this for a while and thought, why not let you control ANY client setting from the server. So that's what we did!
You can now add settings, server side, that will override all of your client's settings. Want to make sure every client has Kids Section turned on? No problem. Want to turn off delete buttons for all your clients? You can do it!
Practically all of the client settings are available to do this.
How does it work?
When you add a setting to override, it will be used for each client. When the client boots up, it will read the settings and make that setting disable locally. So anything you override on the server, can not be changed on the client.
Is this a settings sync?
Nope, this is just you configuring certain settings for every client on the server.
What if I want some apps to have different settings?
After we put this through its paces, we'll be introducing the same thing on a per client level. This means you can configure each client specifically how you want it.
Clients will adopt the global settings first, then the client specific ones.
We just want to get this stable before we scope it to individual clients. But it won't take much to get client scoped settings working, all the hard work has been done.
For now, just DON'T use this feature if you need clients to have different settings.
Requirements
- Channels DVR Server prerelease (v2021.03.10.2332)
- Channels for Apple beta from TestFlight (v3.10.2310)
- Channels for Android beta (v203102309)
Feedback
If you have any issues, please post them in this thread.
