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it occurs to me now that the whole recent stuff that Apple has been pushing, where apps are banned from making HTTP requests (HTTPS only) may have been the impetus for this. Their "setup app" can't connect to http:// 192.168.1.1/ (or if if can, does so only after popping up dire warnings in scare dialogs) -- but it can connect to the "cloud" server so just send it up to the cloud and back down the WAN port. I can see how they arrived here. Still this is why "apps" suck for this purpose, but I bet they moved to apps for because there are probably plenty of households without a working computer, who need wi-fi for their phones and Rokus, and this proved to be the friendliest way to do it.