# Authenticating on a TV needs a better solution

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/authenticating-on-a-tv-needs-a-better-solution/659379>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-windows, fire-tv, roku, smart-tv, networking\
**Created:** [November 29, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/authenticating-on-a-tv-needs-a-better-solution/659379 "2020-11-29T20:00:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![w5ddf8fyh6\_privaterelay\_appleid\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@w5ddf8fyh6\_privaterelay\_appleid\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/w5ddf8fyh6_privaterelay_appleid_com)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/authenticating-on-a-tv-needs-a-better-solution/659379/1 "2020-11-29T20:00:39Z")

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Lifetime subscriber here.

Can you please add a method to allow me to log into a TV using my phone? I have the Plex app installed. Logging in by using a number pad on the TV screen by clicking on each number visibly is silly, especially since the screensaver forces a new login every time we take a break. I have to ask everyone to leave the room which is getting old… Surely you can bounce my login through my home server, via wifi, via your servers, anything other than logging in by showing everyone my pin. Whats the point of even obfuscating the pin using dots if you are highlighting each number as I enter them??

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**Author:** ![nx6](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/nx6/32/103992_2.png) [@nx6](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nx6)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/authenticating-on-a-tv-needs-a-better-solution/659379/2 "2020-11-29T20:23:09Z")

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> [@Hide PIN entry so not everybody in the room can see it // mod: enter pin via remote’s keypad](https://forums.plex.tv/t/hide-pin-entry-so-not-everybody-in-the-room-can-see-it/318833/):
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> I find it annoying that I have to use the arrows to ender in my pin, especially with other people in the room while watching something. Please intergrate the numbers on the keypad to work when entering in pin. This should be private. Related Thread: [Samsung TV app \*\*PIN NUMBER EPIC FAIL!\*\* - #2 by amsquires83](https://forums.plex.tv/t/samsung-tv-app-pin-number-epic-fail/298990/2)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/authenticating-on-a-tv-needs-a-better-solution/659379/3 "2021-02-27T20:23:22Z")

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