Is it possible to get Hola VPN to work on a Chromecast or Amazon Fire TV?
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Now that we travel full time, we've run into challenges with being able to use Netflix and Amazon Instant Video that an Hola subscription resolves on our laptops and iPads, but it would be handy if it also worked on a Google Chromecast or Amazon Fire TV Stick. Does anyone know if there's a way to get it to work?
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Hola is pretty cool, but I don't think that it will work on the Google Chromecast. According to the discussion at Reddit about Hola on Chromecast, the Chromecast is locked to using Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) which stops the Hola service from working as it essentially uses custom DNS to work around the regionality detection.
They mention in the thread the ability to use a VPN Router to work around that by directing all of the traffic over a tunnel to elsewhere, but that is a lot more invasive than getting Hola working on the device itself.
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It looks like the issues are similar on the Fire TV, it doesn't offer the ability to modify the DNS settings.
https://thevpn.guru/unblock-american-channels-amazon-fire-tv/
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That last link suggested a DNS service that might do the trick if you can modify your router's DNS settings..
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Are you using the Edge Router X?
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Although this article suggests that you can edit the DNS settings in the Fire TV:
http://www.instructables.com/answers/How-to-edit-the-DNS-on-amazon-Fire-TV/
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Oh, Unlocator actually has Amazon Fire TV instructions as well as Chromecast... looks like that might be a good option.
https://support.unlocator.com/customer/portal/articles/1512946-how-to-set-up-amazon-fire-tv
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Looking at Unlocator.... looks easy and cheap but it appears to not support Netflix which is a pretty big one. It does list Amazon Video on Demand which is pretty nice. The kids use that a lot. Hulu is there too. Hulu and Amazon VOD are two of our three big things that we want to be able to use.
Netflix isn't so bad now that they have started offering in Europe and many other countries. When we were traveling earlier this year Netflix wasn't in Europe yet. But they got that straightened out over the summer too.
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@anonymous said:
Are you using the Edge Router X?
We are thinking about traveling with one but it would be ideal to not have to or at least to have the option to not have to. Using a Ubiquiti router with network level VPN is the fallback plan in a pinch, but services like Hola let us get content from all over the world, not just from one place that the network to network VPN terminates in.
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@scottalanmiller I was more thinking about redirecting traffic to 8.8.8.8 to another IP
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller I was more thinking about redirecting traffic to 8.8.8.8 to another IP
Gotcha, that might work too. In some cases (very few) we will have router access even without bringing our own. One of the toughest things is trying to figure these things out before we arrive in a place. If we knew what it was going to be like there it would be pretty easy. But often we find up and have to figure out what to do once we are there.
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I think the issues is, it doesn't offer the ability to modify the DNS settings.
You can read also some infos on: http://www.vpnmagazin.de/
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@scottalanmiller said in Is it possible to get Hola VPN to work on a Chromecast or Amazon Fire TV?:
@anonymous said:
Are you using the Edge Router X?
We are thinking about traveling with one but it would be ideal to not have to or at least to have the option to not have to. Using a Ubiquiti router with network level VPN is the fallback plan in a pinch, but services like Hola let us get content from all over the world, not just from one place that the network to network VPN terminates in.
Grab one of these. That is what I use for network level VPN.
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Are you having issues because of locality (videos only play based on your location)? If you have a server/PC at home running, would ZeroTier be a viable solution for this?
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@nashbrydges said in Is it possible to get Hola VPN to work on a Chromecast or Amazon Fire TV?:
Are you having issues because of locality (videos only play based on your location)? If you have a server/PC at home running, would ZeroTier be a viable solution for this?
Nevermind. Re-read your original post. I clearly didn't pay attention.
