Choosing the name of a display

[Taralia]

Hello.

I'm currently working on a project where I have to use dashkiosk to display websites on different displays depending on their role. Each display has their own name (serial number) given by the server at their first connection, and it is stored locally in the display as a cookie.

The thing is that the name is given randomly. I'd like to be able to name them properly to be able to identify them in the admin board of dashkiosk, maybe even include it in the URL, like "https://example.com/receiver?name=XXXXX".

If you have any idea on how to proceed, please let me know.

[vincentbernat]

Receivers cannot choose their name for security reasons (you don't want them to hijack an existing display and get its configuration). However, this can be patched out and the name could only be a suggestion to server.

However, did you notice you can give each display a description? Maybe this would be good enough for you?

[Taralia]

Yes, we already gave a description to the displays.

Maybe if we cannot give a name to a display, we can suggest to the server that it wants to be in a group if it's not assigned yet ? So each display could be redirected in their 'default' groups without having to do it manually on the admin board.