Tell me about your TV setups. Bonus points if you also have a VPN. So far the slickest/neatest setup I have tried has been using DeX from my Samsung phone conencted to the TV.
I find it so bizarre that a service called F1 TV doesn’t have any official smart TV apps.
I finally caved in and bought a Roku and I was up and running in minutes. I should have done this two moths ago.
I’ve had a fire stick for a long time and I’ve been waiting for an official app but I got tired of waiting for an F1 sponsor to have an F1 app. (What a crazy idea!)
Long story short it works great. I cut the cord this week and enjoyed my first weekend of just using F1TV to watch the races and for me it went great and I look forward to future weekends.
Sure there was a technical issue with the audio so we didn’t have sky sports commentary until after the red flag but all in all for me, it was a great experience.
No advice for a VPN though sorry. I’m in Canada and f1TV is available here.
As far as I know you don’t need a VPN to watch.
I have subscribed via an VPN (Mexico I think it was) through my Android Phone via inApp purchase.
I’m now watching everywhere with German commentary from Germany
I don’t. Because I quit F1 TV. Because of this specific issue.
They’ve been promising smart TV apps for three years. So far they’ve only delivered an app for Roku. I’m not interested in paying for broken promises and/or incompetence.
I use Nord VPN and run it on my laptop through HDMI to my screen. I was using the F1TV site at the start of the year and it worked… sometimes. Very glitchy and tried lots of different little Tweeks but never got a whole race weekend or even a full race for that matter fully problem free.
After 5/6 races there must have been an update on the F1TV site and I ran into problems using my VPN. Basically if i try log in while the VPN was active it would cause an error and if i log in without the von it wouldn’t show the live content.
So I downloaded the Race Control app for windows after seeing it on here. Never looked back. Props to the creator it’s excellent and easy to use and no issues running it with VPNs. It takes a bit of setting up so don’t try get it running T-15 to lights out like i tried to do the first time (although my laptop is old and slow and shitty so everything takes a long time).
Without buying a stick or whatever your other options are if u have a PC I’d say it’s the most reliable especially if running a VPN.
I might try come up with a more elegant solution next year but works great for now
MacBook Pro connected via HDMI to the television running a VPN. I used a chromecast with iPad and iPhone as well but from some GPs casting doesn’t work anymore.