Lone Pine Farmhouse Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Anyone familiar with a way to suppress the SONY TV software update diag box? The TV menu seems to give the option for prompted or automatic updates, but not NO updates. The problem we are having is that all updates reset the TV IP addresses and then they loose the system. We use them purely as displays - I'm guessing the updates are truly for folks using the android features etc. If I could do everything over - I'd have purchased displays from sharp or NEC. Willing to try custom firmware or anything. It has my partner wondering why we spent so much on an automated system he cant control (not understanding that the TVs are not C4's problem). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sonic30101 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Not that i am aware of, but you could do a dhcp reservation for the tvs so you dont have to worry about the static address resetting when updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lone Pine Farmhouse Posted May 10, 2017 Author Share Posted May 10, 2017 @sonic30101 How does the DHCP reservation work? As in, how does it prevent each screen from latching on to a new IP address when it resets? I'm thinking my PAKEDGE would be looking for a device MAC or some other identifier before giving it back the same IP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstafford388 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 MAC reservations create a table in the DHCP server to specify specific IP addresses for devices with specific MAC addresses. When the TVs come online and ask the DHCP server for an IP address the DHCP server will recognize the MAC address of the TV and only give it the specified IP address. This will always keep the device at the same IP address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyknight Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 And no, MAC doesn't change with a (well, non-hack) firmware update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Home Theater Advisors Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I've gone back to using IR emitters for TVs that are just monitors. We do not even connect the tv to the network in these cases except up on initial setup for a firmware update. We try to not use smart tv features in our installs (Roku or Apple TV instead). For simple on/off and input control there is no need to go with IP control that I can see - seems more risk than it is worth. A little super glue on the IR emitter and that sucker isn't coming off because someone dusted the tv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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