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It would probably be more reliable to base it in MAC address and IP.
Thank you. I'll do as you suggest.
You can find the renderer name by … looking in … "debug.log".
In the debug file, it's called a Chromecast, even though it's not a Chromecast! (It's an app on my Pixel 2 phone.) It also says ...

boss wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 2:18 amUsually you can give your device a fixed IP address.

True, I can do that using the MAC address on the router. Would that prove more reliable than using a render name, do you think?

I can non-default specify options for a particular renderer in the `UMS.conf` using the IP address, e.g.:
192.168.1.15.show_recently_played_folder = false
However, the IP address of the device can change. To overcome this, I can instead use the render name, e.g.
my_renderer.show_recently_played ...

Regarding the "ini" it is a part of formatting and there were some wrong formats I fixed after I read this topic. Now it is not listed.
Thank you. I don't suppose that you know what the "web" value means?

vfolders: A comma-separated list of allowed virtual folders. You can configure "virtual ...

I am brand new to UMS, so I'm still struggling to understand bits and pieces.

On the security and privacy page , the whitelist section lists a number of properties.

Most of them seem obvious, but some are meaningless to me. A search has revealed nothing to me.

I've listed the options below with ...