Linking a Channel to an Online Account

The SDK specifically warns against using the device ID (serial number) as a registration token. If you do this and the user later sells or gives away his device, the new owner will inherit the account of the old user.

Factory reset will remove all contents of all registries. The user would have to relink his device after a factory reset.

--Mark

I am curious about this as well.

I am working on a service with a free trial type system where we want to eliminate the possibility of getting multiple free trials.

Would it be acceptable to log the unique serial # in a separate database but then use the method described in the developer guide for actually authenticating/authorizing the viewer (so a factory reset would disassociate the account from the device, but the device would not be able to generate a second free trial?)

Thanks!

If the end user sold the roku to a new person, why would you not want to give the new owner a free trial?

I am curious about this as well.

I am working on a service with a free trial type system where we want to eliminate the possibility of getting multiple free trials.

Would it be acceptable to log the unique serial # in a separate database but then use the method described in the developer guide for actually authenticating/authorizing the viewer (so a factory reset would disassociate the account from the device, but the device would not be able to generate a second free trial?)

Thanks!

I think that would be acceptable.

- Joel

Are you going to have the user type in the entire device ID somewhere on your website?

"360tv" wrote:
Are you going to have the user type in the entire device ID somewhere on your website?

The device ID is available using roDeviceInfo. It's passed to the website by the player along with the on-screen code and any other pre-registration request info.