Systems and methods for streaming content

A content streaming system for streaming audio and video data to a television within a multi-room accommodation, the system comprising:

• a multi-room accommodation router being operably configured to connect to an on-site local area network at a multi-room accommodation, the multi-room accommodation router being configured to monitor, interact with and forward data packets on the local area network of said multi-room accommodation;
• an identification code for disposal to the television in the multi-room accommodation, wherein the identification code comprises a unique ID and a security key for uniquely identifying the television in the multi-room accommodation to the system;
• a media streaming unit disposed in a data centre that is off-site with respect to and away from the multi-room accommodation, the media streaming unit including a plurality of media streaming devices, each media streaming device being operable to encode and transmit audio and video data to the television within the multi-room accommodation;
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• a cloud server disposed off-site with respect to the multi-room accommodation, the cloud server comprising a virtual multi-room accommodation site container communicatively connected to the multi-room accommodation router and to the media streaming unit, the cloud server being configured to receive a message containing the unique ID and the security key from a quest device and, in response, initially reserve one or more media streaming devices from the plurality of media streaming devices for use by the quest device;
• wherein the system is configured to:
• monitor data packets from the on-site local area network of said multi-room accommodation for media streaming device connection requests from a guest device connected to the on-site local area network of said multi-room accommodation;
• communicate, in response to media streaming device connection request, a notification packet for the or each media streaming device from the cloud server to the guest device connected to the on-site local area network through the multi-room accommodation router, wherein the notification packet comprises at least some authentic device description details and at least some modified data configured to show that the or each media streaming device is connected to the on-site local area network of the multi-room accommodation;
• establish connection between the guest device on the on-site local area network and one of the media streaming devices in the off-site media streaming unit through the cloud server;
• receive instructions for the media streaming device from the guest device at the cloud server;
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• generate a stream of audio and video data at the connected media streaming device based on the received instructions, and encode and transmit the audio and video data to the identified television in the multi-room accommodation for display at a television in the multi-room accommodation.