This will be a different one…
I have multiple Apple TV’s throughout the house, mainly for my kids. We have the restrictions set up on certain apps for the Apple TV so I’m constantly hearing a yell through the house, “Can I have the code please!?” When I hear that I open up the Remote app on the iPhone, hit the drop down, select the Apple TV, then I’m able to put in the code. In this scenario, I am obviously on the same WiFi network.
I’m curious if anyone out there knows how I can connect to my VPN and be able to connect to the Apple TV’s outside of being at home on the internal network. (I use a UniFi UDR.)
As I’m typing this I’m thinking that I just need to create a firewall rule to bridge between the VPN subnet and the internal network subnet. I feel like I have this setup but it’s just not working.
Thoughts?
Idk but I have zero Apple TV setup and I kept getting a horrible apple dropdown message on the iPhone THAT KEPT CRASHIN MY HECKIN PHONE ALL DAY. Oh and it happened to three other people with iPhones sitting near me in a coffee shop - it was weird af.
Sorry. I just couldn’t find anything on this today and I needed to cry a little abt it.
Yes the firewall rule should work.
If you crate a WireGuard VPN, it should just work for internal networks (no firewall changes needed). It allows me to manage a lot of things remotely. Biggest “issue” I see is mDNS doesn’t cross the VPN, so it may not work if ATV requires that to connect.
I actually hadn’t tried this, so while turning lights and plugs on and off works natively on the Home App, ‘through the cloud’, TV remote control only works on the same network? Testing by turning WiFi off an my iPad and forcing cellular, I now see the TV remote ‘Play’ button is White while on WiFi, and greyed out on cellular.
I’ve tried it with several VPNs and haven’t seen it work, I suspect due to mDNS as you mentioned. I also have a Harmony Hub and that works fine though
Yeah, my google TV’s remote works just fine over the vpn.