Users on the move constantly

Hey guys!I'm fed up with my current solution with initials CM and looking to replace it all with LimeLM. I already use it for my demo mode and also use wyUpdate.

Here is the scenario I'm up against....Most my users are sound designers that work at different locations weekly. One week at Sony Pictures, the next at Disney the next at Warner Bros.

With my current solution I write the serial number of a USB flash drive or iLok into the license and read that and match it to the USB/iLok device on the system. If the serials match then it launches my program. This way guys can be super mobile.

With LimeLM I can use the License fields to store the USB Device serial number and it works great, but the problem I have is with online activation it requires you to de-activate a license before you can re-activate on another system and that is not an option for people that are constantly moving around and wouldn't remember to deactivate before going to another lot always.

Since the license can only be used if you have the matching USB/iLok device and serial it doesn't matter if activated 100 times since can only be used if you are in possession of the physical device it's binded to BUT the trouble with that is me paying for all those activations and the Unlimited plan is not an option right now....hehe i'm eying the lower Activations plans at this point

I don't care about fingerprinting, I just care about a clean fast way for users to enter in their KEY and pull down their license with the USB/iLok Device serial number embedded in it that I use on my end to check if OK to launch.Plus I like how I can easily add un-locking features if users upgrade using the License fields, plus all the web API's

Any suggestions how to pull this off with Lime or not possible currently without the unlimited plan?

thx for any info you can share!Steve

Hey Steve,

There are a couple ways you can this. Broadly, the solution is floating licenses. Because that's exactly how your users are using your app (on X machines at a time, one different machines depending on their contract / current job).

https://wyday.com/limelm/help/licensing-types/#floating

How you implement this is the trick. You have a few options ranging from inconvenient to super convenient:

1. The customer runs a TurboFloat Server instance on a piece of hardware they own either at their office or home.

2. The customer runs a TurboFloat Server instance on a simple small piece of hardware they carry around with them (like a raspberry pi). You could even pre-load raspberry pi with the TurboFloat Server instance.

3. The customer enters their product key into our LicenseChest product (coming soon) and spins up a TurboFloat Server instance running on our infrastructure. And if it's a license for a single "concurrent computer" (i.e. 1 activation) then those customers will be able to create hosted TFS instance for free.

It sounds like option 3 would be best for you and your customers. This is coming very soon.

yeah I was gonna tell you I needed a hybrid between your TurboFloat and the Standard activation and looks that it's coming with the LicenseChest. Very Cool!

will it just work with single activations or will my end users need to do some extra step to get this going as this kind of implies? "customers will be able to create hosted TFS instance for free."

thx man!

>> "will it just work with single activations or will my end users need to do some extra step to get this going as this kind of implies? "

You'll need to include TurboFloat in your app: https://wyday.com/limelm/help/using-turbofloat/

And your customers will need to "activate" their key in our LicenseChest interface to created the hosted TFS instance.

hey Wyatt, got an ETA on LicenseChest yet?

Steve

No ETA. We're working hard to get it out ASAP.

Hey Wyatt!just checking if there is still hope for LicenseChest sometime in 2019 or if I should be researching other solutions?

lmk!

Steve

Yes, its coming 2019

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