Hi, I have a smart TV in a separate network from home. I can’t touch the modem, so I was thinking to hotspot from a phone connected to the home VPN once a month, does this work, or does the tv require to be connected to the home all the time? Otherwise I need to repurpose a raspberry pi and connect the tv to it…
Thanks!
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Does the Smart TV run VPN clients?
If you run VPN on your mobile hotspot, be it Android or Apple, the VPN only works on the mobile device. The devices connecting to the hotspot do not see the IP that the VPN sees.
It won’t passthrough.
Your options are:
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Router in another location that can do VPN client configs. So you can connect to a VPN somewhere else, presumably in own home or you could use datacentre VPS.
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Buy a NUC PC or Raspberry Pi and run Ubuntu Server on it and set it up as a VPN gateway. This device would connect to VPN and it could be configured to handle IPv4 forwarding. You’d then point Smart TV to it as for it’s gateway. Then the Smart TV would see the VPN IP instead.
You could also run bind on the VPN Gateway so that it can accept DNS as well, then forward DNS requests to a server of your choice.
This sounds complicated. Why not just get a fire stick or Ccwgtv?
Uh, apparently I need to root android in order to pass the vpn to the hotspot… Yeah probably I’ll use a raspberry pi or an old rooted phone as vpn gateway… thank you!
If I use the DNS of the home connection I can bypass these new restrictions? So let’s say any DNS queries to Netflix go through the DNS server hosted on the main home, this would allow me to use the account somewhere else?
To be honest, I jailbroken a few iPhones years ago and was able to enable VPN on Hotspot so connecting clients would passthrough the VPN as well.
Probably be same with Android but I was assuming devices being stock, then it isn’t permitted.
I don’t know about that to be honest cos passing DNS queries through to elsewhere, it isn’t going to mask IP is it when you are connecting in from somewhere else. Only a VPN is going to do that.
This is the current method I use for bypassing geolocation restrictions, might work for this too.
Are you using a SmartDNS to do that? That’s the only way I think you can bypass geo-restrictions at home. What you’re asking though, if I understand correctly is:
You want to point to your DNS at home from elsewhere? It won’t mask IP. I’m doubtful it would work if you using a Smart DNS because usually the IP at home is registered so simply pointing to DNS at home, from outside, I don’t think that is going to work. Would also have to open port for DNS.
It’s not a SmartDNS, but it’s similar. I basically want to make my TV query a DNS server at the “main” home for the account, so Netflix will see the requests coming from the DNS server where the household is. It is a similar concept to a SmartDNS, they also don’t hide your IP, they just sent your DNS query to another country in order to make Netflix think you are somewhere else. It’s a similar concept. And this would be private network DNS server, so no ports open. Tailscale is great for that.