now tv box in holiday home

[Anonymous User]

Bought new box for holiday home. OK for us with now tv account and pin, also have Sky account and pin at home address.

We let the holiday home out, and want to ensure that guests can't order films etc through Sky Store. How do we set up pin for this, or does our Sky pin at home cover the now tv box ?

[Anonymous User]

@Anonymous User Welcome

Go to My Account /Payment Pin where you can set it up ( top right of forum page)

You'll need to set pin for NowTV as your Sky pin won't protect you

[Anonymous User]

Ta. So will the now tv pin which we have set up stop any Sky Store purchases by unauthorised people ?

[Anonymous User]

Sky store is independant app...

it has no links to the NowTV account...

it requires the sky store account be linked to the SkyID independantly to even start purchasing...

You use the Skystore.com web site to manage the sky store app... 

https://www.skystore.com/myaccount/account

Its there you manage the pin numbers...

 

[4268]

Are you sure this is wise? What are you going to do if the box is logged out for any reason? Give a potential stranger your account details?

[Anonymous User]

@Anonymous User the Sky Store payment PIN is different from the NOW TV payment PIN. You can manage it via the Sky Store website here https://www.skystore.com/myaccount/account

Although I suggest making sure both are enabled to stop guests from also purchasing the expensive Sport Passes.

[Anonymous User]

Thanks for the link. Both pins now enabled, hope this keeps the bills down...

Can guests "sign us out" on our box ?

[Anonymous User]

@Anonymous User guest could sign out, or even factory reset the box. Hopefully they'll be sensible and enjoy the fact that you are allowing them to watch TV you've paid for.

[Anonymous User]

Do you know if it 's possible to hide the "my account" details on the page that pops up when you press the now tv button on the remote ? Or simply disable this button ?? This would stop anyone except me from signing out...

[Anonymous User]

@Anonymous User it's not possible, but even if you did manage to use software to stop them logging out, a factory reset would have a similar result.

[Anonymous User]

This is becoming too much hassle ! Might just leave it in there for a few months and get some guest feedback.

Have also bought an LG smart tv for another holiday property, but inbuilt now tv app only does half the job - no ITV player or All4. 

[Anonymous User]

---

@Anonymous User wrote:

This is becoming too much hassle ! Might just leave it in there for a few months and get some guest feedback.

Have also bought an LG smart tv for another holiday property, but inbuilt now tv app only does half the job - no ITV player or All4. 

---

The tv will have itv player etc built in as stand alone apps

[Anonymous User]

This may be a bit too late but hopefully it'll help others.

We too have a holiday let and I realised our monthly subscriptions were going up and up and then realised that our guests had bought monthly passes for movies, for kids subscription and even one day sports passes. 

You can set a payment PIN on your account -- here's the link to the NowTV help: https://account.nowtv.com/payment-pin

I did it and it's very simple.

Hope that helps others -- what, for me, started out as a £25 p/month package is now £37 and went up to £45 in another month. My bad, it was on direct debit and I wasn't looking too closely.