Hi all, I’ve been researching and have no idea how to configure or set this up.
My family in another city has a Samsung smart tv but are unable to use my Netflix due to the “not in the same household” message.
I currently have an exit node (raspberry pi) at my home and their other devices (android, windows, etc) are all fine. I’m just trying to figure out how to get it working on their Samsung tv now.
Would the best option be to have them get a supported router to install tailscale on? Or is there a free/cheaper option?
Those travel routers look very simple! I found the cheapest being the sft1200 but unfortunately it’s not supported but a quick google search suggests otherwise via other methods.
Might have to browse around for an affordable one.
Neither of which of those will run Tailscale, but I use them to run WireGuard back to a WireGuard server running on a Raspberry Pi at home, in order to be able to access geo-locked TV shows when I am overseas, and both work absolutely fine for that purpose.
Although the GL-AR300M is only 2.4Ghz single band and has a maximum theoretical WireGuard throughput of 50mbs (although the reality is far less), but even so it is still is perfectly adequate to stream normal HD TV - £30 from Amazon or less secondhand from eBay, etc.
(My ‘fallback’ is Tailscale from the Firestick to a Synology NAS at home).
Tailscale is now available on the Fire TV Store, so you can install it like you would install any other app
The Amazon App store is telling me that it isn’t compatible with the Amazon 4k Firestick - are you suggesting that is incorrect, because there doesn’t seem to be any way to install it through the App store on that device.
Do you have a tutorial on setting up wireguard on a raspberry pi? I tried installing tailscale unofficially on a sft1200 opal router but unfortunately connecting to an exit node results in no internet connection.
Unfortunately happens if you’re using an older Fire Stick model, based on a version of Android prior to 8.0. Recent versions of Tailscale for Android require Android 8 or newer. APKs of older versions might run on your device, but they’re unsupported and lack newer features.
I use Tailscale back to a Synology NAS (and that has an exit node), and I use WireGuard back to the Raspberry Pi - www.pivpn.io
That way I have two different devices as an exit point to use, just in case there is an issue with one whilst I am in another country (and was needed the last time as one place I stayed the WiFi seemed to block the WireGuard service but was fine with Tailscale).
You could stick OpenWRT on it, with a Tailscale client.
Then Policy Based Routing so that it only goes to the Tailscale client for Netflix based domain access.
Note; this is all theoretical, I’ve not tried it myself
However, I do use a Pi4 as my main router, with PBR in play (via an OpenVPN connection for some domains).
, that’s how my family in another state uses my Netflix otherwise they’ll get the error/message.
I just used it to access sonarr outside my network and I have laptop on 24/7 for plex obv, but now I can take full advantage thank uuu