What is "Device MBP-15 is playing games on launcher-public-service-prod06.ol.epicgames.com."

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Ro88durham

• December 23, 2020 16:53

I got this alarm on my laptop but I don't play games on it.  Epic is obviously most likely Fortnite; my son sometimes plays Fortnite on our xbox.  But why would this alarm show up on my MBP?  It occurred shortly after first logging on this morning.    

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  Firewalla

  • December 23, 2020 18:02
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  Two possibilities

  1. Your laptop IP changed and took on the one used by xbox. 

  2. and most likely one of the browser tabs (or an app) on the MBP is talking to epicgames in the background.

  Game detection + adult content detection are extremely sensitive in our system.

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  Andy brown

  • December 23, 2020 18:17

  Windows computers can get gaming alarms from the Xbox site from its background tasks. I built a virtual windows 10 in Proxmox and within 10 mins got a gaming alarm, I hadn’t done anything with it.

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  James Willhoite

  • December 24, 2020 17:23

  I’ve had my echo say it was “playing games” when listening to music. I agree, it might be a add in the background of a site. I’ve had that happen before too.

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  Firewalla

  • December 24, 2020 17:51

  Let me talk to our engineering team, see if we can tune these down a little.   May I ask whoever is reading this thread ( I assume this is managing kids ), do you want the gaming detection to be very sensitive?  If we tune this, the logic may not detect those internet games that don't have many interactions with the internet. 

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  James Willhoite

  • December 24, 2020 18:00

  For me it is not an issue really. I just told the Firewalla to ignore that site since it was just music.

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