Disable internet/remote access?

[thatdoodle]

One of my friends came over yesterday, and connected to my unit through Spotify connect over my WiFi to stream some music.

After he returned home he was still able to connect to my unit and stream music to it as it appears under the "On other networks" section in Spotify connect. He's been using this to incessantly spam me with baby shark and as far as I can see it's impossible to prevent him from doing this or force disconnect him from the device. I can start streaming my own music via Chromecast but there is nothing to stop him from connecting again, kicking me off the device.

While I don't mind my friend playing a joke on me, it is annoying and I don't particularly like that the WiiM is accessible over the internet by anybody that has connected to my WiFi.

Is it possible to disable this remote play feature at all?I assume closing the inbound ports used by Spotify connect will fix this, but this is fairly advanced for most users so I'd appreciate if there could be a setting in the app to control this.

 

[jfbuk]

Another alternative is to only allow your friends to connect to a guest network broadcast by your router.
If your router allows it you can temporarily allow guest network devices access to your main home network resources and then take it away again or possibly just change the guest network password so they lose access.

 

[Wiimer]

Can you block your friends by "signing out from anywhere" after changing the password on your Spotify account?

(I haven't had that experience, so I could be wrong.)

 

[jfbuk]

Can you block your friends by "signing out from anywhere" after changing the password on your Spotify account?

(I haven't had that experience, so I could be wrong.)

I don't think that will work,
Its the friend's Spotify account that is "remembering" @thatdoodle 's Wiim as a Spotify connect destination.

 

[Burnside]

Can you block your friends by "signing out from anywhere" after changing the password on your Spotify account?

(I haven't had that experience, so I could be wrong.)

Yeah, that seems to be Spotify's advice but misses the point. I wonder if changing your device IP would have any effect

 

[thatdoodle]

Can you block your friends by "signing out from anywhere" after changing the password on your Spotify account?

(I haven't had that experience, so I could be wrong.)

Yeah, that seems to be Spotify's advice but misses the point. I wonder if changing your device IP would have any effect

I don't even have a Spotify account as i've always used Google play music/YouTube music

Another alternative is to only allow your friends to connect to a guest network broadcast by your router.
If your router allows it you can temporarily allow guest network devices access to your main home network resources and then take it away again or possibly just change the guest network password so they lose access.

While this would work it seems like a hassle that should be unnecessary and is probably something else that is beyond the ability/knowledge of the average user

 

[huw]

Does this work - https://github.com/thlucas1/homeass...ooting#zeroconf-api-service-resetusers-action ? It suggests you can use the Zeroconf API from a machine on your network to force the log-out of your friend from Spotify Connect on your device. Source: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ot...t-speakers/m-p/6573589/highlight/true#M118983