So a certain streaming service has now made it so my parents and MIL can’t share our account. I don’t want to pay for 2 additional households, and I don’t want ads
I have nabucasa, so I don’t need a vpn for remote access. I only want to put a different IP on our Firestick. We can pay for one additional house so the relatives both have normal accounts, and a vpn would be enough to cover the once a week that we use it for ourselves (our kid watches it more than any of us, kids accounts don’t have the IP address restriction)
What’s the easiest VPN to set up for this use? Bonus points if there’s a good up to date tutorial in layman’s terms to set it up. It’s not like I’m computer illiterate, but I’m definitely not advanced by this groups standards.
House B connects to house A, therefore all traffic appears to be coming from House A and streaming services are nones the wiser.
I do this very setup with Apple TVs and 3 locations. My Apple TV and my MILs Apple TV tunnel to my BILs Apple TV for Netflix, Disney+, etc and we all use one account.
We have the best wifi setup, by a LOT!! We’re the only ones with fibre optic internet to the house, and everything relevant to this is connected via wired connections and not wifi. The only pitfall is that home assistant runs on a Raspberry pi and is also running Adguard
If I’m understanding this right, they log into our wifi network to load stuff. What’s the login process look like on their end?
It’s worth noting that MIL in particular won’t be able to handle anything complicated. She was too intimidated to log into Netflix without help, she needed DH to walk her through it over the phone. And that’s just entering a email and password. He needed to go through “all the steps” multiple times…
No. They login into nothing, they just start Netflix and watch. There is no “logging your WiFi network”. The tunnel is an on demand connectivity that bridges between the two networks but directs traffic to move one direction. Think of like roads, houses and intersections.
To follow the example If im at house b and I want to watch Netflix im going to get into my “tailscale car” which obfuscates my original home location and drive to house a. I then get out of my “tailscale car” go into house a then leave house a together to watch Netflix.
The VPN add ons in HA are for remote accessing HA, your question pertains to a site to site VPN which generally isn’t what these add ons are meant to accomplish out of the box. That said you could run a WireGuard/OpenVPN server as an add on in HAOS, but I wouldn’t suggest doing that if running on a Pi as it could get overloaded.
Right, but how does their TV know to use the tailscale “car” and not just use the standard wifi route? Theres gotta be more to it than just installing stuff at my house and it works, something done at their device to reroute it through our network
“Isn’t what these addons are meant to accomplish out of the box” — isn’t that what one of the primary function HA is? Using devices and services otherwise designed out of the box for cloud hosted services but instead using locally with HA using custom radios and apis…
Just the other day there was a post talking about custom, not even HA official, google drive plugin for HA and how to setup backups. Should that be removed because “Storing stuff in Google drive isn’t HA related”?
Site to site vpns is a function of the VPN addon, get off your pedestal…
Using tailscale, you’re effectively running a network that sits inside your network. It runs in the background and any traffic through it looks like its coming from your network. Netflix and others are none the wiser.
When you tell Tailscale to use your internet service as the exit node, it effectively tells the remote users that they will be routing their traffic via your network - anything bound for the internet goes by your internet service.
In terms of complexity, its all hands-off. Your MIL and other users wont have to do anything. The tailscale agent runs in the background, boots with the devices automatically. The only caveat is that if your internet goes down, i believe theirs will stop working too since they cant route traffic via you anymore. I haven’t tested how Tailscale handles that.
There some more configs to it, and technically it uses both connection your local WiFi network and the tunnel at the same time. One facilitates the other. I think you need to brush on general networking conceptions; tunneling, split tunneling, routing policies, etc Before moving forward because you can beef it and get your relatives account banned for “using a vpn”.
Apple tv has Tailscale as an App and can leave the VPN connection on full time. If you Google I bet you can find a way to get Tailscale on a fire stick so that it does the same thing. Set it up once and forget it