Force "Away From Home"

Channels Apple TV
#1

Could we have an option to force to use "Away from Home" on the Apple TV/iOS?

I'm using Tailscale to link my cottage and home together. Tailscale speed is not fast enough to allow more that 4Mb/s. Even if I select "Away from home", because I manage the traffic through Tailscale, it thinks it's local and use my local ip and goes through Tailscale :frowning:

If I use my laptop to access my DVR through http://my.channelsdvr.net, it allow me to bypass Tailscale.

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:
Eric

#2

This is something we’ve struggled to find a simple solution for at the moment.

Are you able to setup a firewall rule to block port 8089 from the tailscale interface on your subnet router to your DVR? It isn’t an elegant solution, but one that we’ve had success with.

#3

Thanks for the quick answer :). I need to investigate this solution.

#4

Do you have some documentation on this? I cannot find any link on how to perform this through Tailscale

#5

Found the solution :slight_smile: Needs to be done through Tailscale ACLs

"acls": [
	// Match absolutely everything.
	// Comment this section out if you want to define specific restrictions.
	{"action": "accept", "users": ["*"], "ports": ["*:1-8088"]},
	{"action": "accept", "users": ["*"], "ports": ["*:8090-65353"]},
],

Thanks for pointing me to the correct direction :slight_smile:

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#6

I had to do this through my Unifi controller. I had the same kind of problem, the speed through the Site-to-Site VPN just wasn’t fast enough. I had to force remote streaming which will use the full speed of my 1GB up on FIOS.

The best I could see was 60mbps through the Unifi VPN, and usually slower. It’s a shame.

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#7

I'm stuck with Starlink at the cottage, so I cannot use the Unifi Site-to-Site VPN :frowning:

60 mb/s is not that bad, I was under the impression that VPN through the Unify was slower than Tailscale

#8

That’s max. It’ll be 10 a lot. Also, I need a little more ommph for 4K.

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