Bugzilla – Bug 4255
Request for device tracking for purposes of theft recovery
Last modified: 2006-10-01 22:11:23 UTC
Aloha... As a proud owner of a Slim Device I was musing over the functionality this morning and came up with a feature that you might consider adding: Specifically... since each Slim Device is basically an 'internet appliance' (sure you can use it without the internet - e.g., computer-to-slim, but it was built to hook to the internet) - that means you could offer SUBSCRIBBERS an interesting service: 1) A person who owns a Slim Device could go to your website and turn on an option marked "MY SLIM HAS BEEN STOLEN". 2) If 'said slim device' appears to your network (squeezebox) than you fire off an EMail to the owner with the IP address that the connection was from. This 'feature' should NOT be advertised - it should only be available to people who purchased a Slim Device. (otherwise, a thief, having stolen one, would visit your website only to see it had 'theft detection' - a bad idea since we would want to catch them). There is not much code involved in implementing the above feature and I suspect that your customers would find the option very useful (especially since the same person using a stolen slim device most likely has their other stolen goods as well). Hope to see this feature (before I get robbed) :)
Tell him it is actually already possible. If you register all your players with SqueezeNetwork, the Players page displays the last IP each player was connected from.