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A road warrior VPN setup running on a Raspberry Pi 4 and placed in your home costs less than $50. There are 1000 reasons to have one anyway, and watching TV whi

A road warrior VPN setup running on a Raspberry Pi 4 and placed in your home costs less than $50. There are 1000 reasons to have one anyway, and watching TV while traveling is also one of them. I know for a fact the Spectrum TV app works quite well under this setup.

mav3rick 6y ago
You'd expect the average Joe to do all of this ?
- derefr 6y ago
  The average Joe isn’t subscribed to YouTube TV in the first place, are they? They’re usually paying their cable/telco for TV service. (Which, as it happens, already comes these days with mobile wi-fi streaming of the same content via the provider’s apps.)
  - Infinitesimus 6y ago
    Not sure that's a given. Anecdotally, quite a few people on my friend circle hate cable and have YouTube TV for sports and a few minor things. No data but I'd assume YouTube's biggest pull is people young enough to hate cable but old enough to use YouTube often and have $$ to pay for the convenience
- lloeki 6y ago
  I have an Amplifi device but never tried this Teleport thing which looks like a toggle-and-forget thing. Seems simple enough, I’ve seen regular Joes and Janes go to surprisingly more convoluted lengths to access content they feel entitled to. https://help.amplifi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037903234-Teleport-About-Teleport https://help.amplifi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037903234-Tele...
- aasasd 6y ago
  Btw, some routers have built-in VPN—I think ASUS has it, for no particular discernible reason. For dynamic IPs, it also can ping a couple DynDNS providers. Can't speak as to whether the performance of a router's hardware is enough for VPN together with two streams of video.
jeegsy 6y ago
Do you have a good link that explains how to do this? I am very much interested in implementing that
- chrsstrm 6y ago
  This OpenVPN[0] setup works very well and uses certificates for auth. It's easy to use and you just need to set up port forwarding in your home network so you can dial in from remote. These days all the cool kids are using WireGuard[1] though. I don't have a link to a handy installer and setup guide for that but they do exist. Using a Pi 4 with gigabit ethernet makes a big difference over older Pi hardware. [0] https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install [1] https://www.wireguard.com/ https://www.wireguard.com/
jpeeler 6y ago
I see you commented below that you used OpenVPN for implementing this. I tried using a self-hosted Squid proxy with the Spectrum website, but was unsuccessful at getting it to work. I also tried routing the traffic over SOCKS5 (using ssh -D) and it still didn't work. This was a while ago, but I recall that the website was using Flash. I'm just assuming that the website was using Flash to do some local network checking outside of the tunneled traffic and that's why it didn't work, but I'm uncertain if that makes sense. Sounds like I should have tried a full traffic solution like a VPN...
- chrsstrm 6y ago
  Routing through where? If you put your proxy in the cloud then it definitely won't work as most providers block known cloud host IPs like AWS, Digital Ocean, etc. I placed my Raspberry Pi inside my home network so that when I'm traveling my traffic still appears to be coming from my home, which is what Spectrum and others are looking for to determine whether to show you the entire channel listing or just a small slice of available channels. If you're not showing a residential IP in their network then it doesn't matter what setup you use, it still won't work.
  - jpeeler 6y ago
    Uh yeah, sorry I didn't specify that I meant at my house, also on a raspberry pi as well FWIW.

mav3rick 6y ago

You'd expect the average Joe to do all of this ?

derefr 6y ago
The average Joe isn’t subscribed to YouTube TV in the first place, are they? They’re usually paying their cable/telco for TV service. (Which, as it happens, already comes these days with mobile wi-fi streaming of the same content via the provider’s apps.)
- Infinitesimus 6y ago
  Not sure that's a given. Anecdotally, quite a few people on my friend circle hate cable and have YouTube TV for sports and a few minor things. No data but I'd assume YouTube's biggest pull is people young enough to hate cable but old enough to use YouTube often and have $$ to pay for the convenience
lloeki 6y ago
I have an Amplifi device but never tried this Teleport thing which looks like a toggle-and-forget thing. Seems simple enough, I’ve seen regular Joes and Janes go to surprisingly more convoluted lengths to access content they feel entitled to. https://help.amplifi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037903234-Teleport-About-Teleport https://help.amplifi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037903234-Tele...
aasasd 6y ago
Btw, some routers have built-in VPN—I think ASUS has it, for no particular discernible reason. For dynamic IPs, it also can ping a couple DynDNS providers. Can't speak as to whether the performance of a router's hardware is enough for VPN together with two streams of video.

jeegsy 6y ago

Do you have a good link that explains how to do this? I am very much interested in implementing that

chrsstrm 6y ago
This OpenVPN[0] setup works very well and uses certificates for auth. It's easy to use and you just need to set up port forwarding in your home network so you can dial in from remote. These days all the cool kids are using WireGuard[1] though. I don't have a link to a handy installer and setup guide for that but they do exist. Using a Pi 4 with gigabit ethernet makes a big difference over older Pi hardware. [0] https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install [1] https://www.wireguard.com/ https://www.wireguard.com/

jpeeler 6y ago

I see you commented below that you used OpenVPN for implementing this. I tried using a self-hosted Squid proxy with the Spectrum website, but was unsuccessful at getting it to work. I also tried routing the traffic over SOCKS5 (using ssh -D) and it still didn't work. This was a while ago, but I recall that the website was using Flash. I'm just assuming that the website was using Flash to do some local network checking outside of the tunneled traffic and that's why it didn't work, but I'm uncertain if that makes sense. Sounds like I should have tried a full traffic solution like a VPN...

chrsstrm 6y ago
Routing through where? If you put your proxy in the cloud then it definitely won't work as most providers block known cloud host IPs like AWS, Digital Ocean, etc. I placed my Raspberry Pi inside my home network so that when I'm traveling my traffic still appears to be coming from my home, which is what Spectrum and others are looking for to determine whether to show you the entire channel listing or just a small slice of available channels. If you're not showing a residential IP in their network then it doesn't matter what setup you use, it still won't work.
- jpeeler 6y ago
  Uh yeah, sorry I didn't specify that I meant at my house, also on a raspberry pi as well FWIW.