Media Devices

All devices that have connected to your Mezzmo media server are listed in the Media Devices dialog. This dialog lets you control what devices you want to be able to connect to your Mezzmo media server and how Mezzmo delivers media files to these devices.

The device list contains all the devices that have attempted to connect to your Mezzmo media server. Each device listed has a status that you can change with the Allow / Deny button. Each device has settings that Mezzmo uses to determine how to deliver media files to it. You can use the Edit button to adjust these settings.

Click this button to refresh the device list.

Click this button to edit the settings for the selected device. The Device Settings dialog will be displayed.

Click this button to remove the selected device from the device list.

The next time the device tries to connect to your media server, it will be allowed or blocked based on your setting for the Allow all new devices to connect to Mezzmo checkbox.

Click this button to change the security status of the selected device. When set to Allow, the device will be allowed to communicate with Mezzmo and Mezzmo will deliver media files to it. When set to Deny, the device will not be able to communicate with Mezzmo and Mezzmo will not deliver media files to it. This lets you set the security of your Mezzmo media server at the device level.

By clicking this option, new devices that connect to your Mezzmo media server will be accepted until you manually block them using the Allow / Deny button.

If this option is not checked, devices will be denied access by default until you change their permissions in the Device list using the Allow / Deny button.

By clicking this checkbox, each time a new device connects to your Mezzmo media server, you will be notified with a popup window in the bottom right hand side of your computer screen. The popup window lets you click on it and configure the permissions for the new device.

Note: This popup window only appears if the Mezzmo (Windows) application is running.

By default, Mezzmo uses MAC addresses of your devices to uniquely identify them on your home network. This allows for accurate device recognition since a device's MAC address is unique and fixed, unlike IP addresses which may change from time to time.

Some Mezzmo users have network bridges on their home network. Typically, network bridges hide MAC addresses of devices connected to it and only present the MAC address of the bridge itself. So Mezzmo is unable to correctly identify each device using MAC addresses in this circumstance. One solution is to turn on 'MAC forwarding' or 'MAC pass through' in your network bridge settings so that MAC addresses are passed through the bridge. This fixes the problem of accurate identification of device by MAC address. Unfortunately, not all network bridges have 'MAC forwarding' or 'MAC pass through' in their network bridge settings.

If you have a network bridge that does not have 'MAC forwarding' or 'MAC pass through' settings, you can check the Use only IP addresses to identify devices checkbox. When set, Mezzmo will use only IP addresses to identify devices on your home network.

Important: For this setting to work, you must set a static IP address for each device on your home network. Go to each of your device's network settings and enter a unique IP address. After setting static IP addresses for your devices, stop your Mezzmo media server and delete all devices listed in the Media Devices dialog. Switch off/on your devices and then restart your Mezzmo media server. You should now see your devices listed in the Media Devices dialog.