Parental Control Plugin

[lowlight]

This is Very cool. I've got a little one that soon enough will learn how to use the TV and remote and I'd like to have some Parental Controls on PMS. I too would like to see a folder level block that wouldn't require me to add file after file to the .ini file. Since I'm on a linux box I've been creating directories for a "theme/rating" and then creating symlinks in that to the files in my "All" directory. Being able to put a lock on everything other than the "Kids" dir would be nice. I also couldn't tell from the docs/demo if you can have different unlock codes for each rating level. That way you can leave the G rated movies unlocked for the little kids, and give your 10 year old the key for the PG rated stuff and your 14 year old for the PG-13 and below while retaining the key for the R rated stuff and above for yourself.

Another tweak to this would be to auto lock everything again after a certain (configurable) length of time has passed since the server stopped streaming. That way if you're up late watching an R rated movie and forget to re-lock everything, your kids can't get into it all when they get up in the morning.

[zomgheals]

I have alot of problems with this release and playing movies / shows with external subtitles, seems to stop playing and crash at around 2 minutes and 45 seconds or so. only for external subs (i think at least?)

[ramses]

This is not a problem of the "plugin". Try the updated version. It is bases on svn version 405.

[ramses]

Im excited

maybe it would be a nice feature to query imdb for movie rating.

So you could lock everything that not suitable for person under a certain "age".

For example lock all movies that are rated R or X.

Even more simple, lock by folder. I have folders just for kids movies and folders for everything else. It would be great to just lock at the folder level. But I'm really happy to get a chance to play with this! Locking by file is fine too...

I'm not too bad with Perl scripting so I might be able to make a little script to lock all the files based on an Internet look up. I certainly can make a script to create a basic control .ini for each file in a folder. Just edit the script a bit then run it on the next folder.

I'll post the perl script here if that's ok?

With the latest version you can put a file called "folder.ini" in the folder to lock the complete folder.

[Redlum]

Very cool

[kosmo90]

Sorry for digging up an old thread but ivé just tried making a .ini file and it stays as a .ini .text file (windows 7)
Any ideas
Thanks

[Silvos]

Hi ramses,

Are your changes in the current beta build? If so it does not seem to work, has the implementation documentation changed between then and now?

If your changes are not in the current beta build could you supply a new link? The link in the original post does not work for me!

Thanks!

[ramses]

Hi ramses,

Are your changes in the current beta build? If so it does not seem to work, has the implementation documentation changed between then and now?

If your changes are not in the current beta build could you supply a new link? The link in the original post does not work for me!

Thanks!

No, my changes aren't in the current beta build. This plugin is currently a proof of concept version. There are some untested modifications. But there is a new build with the current beta build of PS3 Media Server. I've changed the download link (see top of thread)

[timman]

Do you have any instructions how to use the new plugin please?

[JonnyManiac]

This looks just like the sort of thing I've been looking for but I like to keep on top of the latest beta builds from SubJunk. Does this actually work as a plug-in or does it depend on a custom build of the server software?