Use Tailscale on your Apple TV!

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9 ай бұрын

With the release of tvOS 17, Apple TV and Tailscale lets you access media servers, photo albums, and more, even when they aren't located on the same physical network. You can share family photos and videos on your media servers with family members' on their Apple TVs- invite them to your Tailnet and have them add their Apple TV!
Personal accounts are always free on Tailscale and can include up to 3 users and 100 devices. Get started today at tailscale.com/yt
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Chapters:
00:21 - Apple TV as an Exit Node
02:10 - Mullvad Love
02:37 - Multi-national citizens
03:49 - Demo Time!
06:25 - Jellyfin Remote Access
07:54 - Recap

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@eric_eagle 2 ай бұрын

Tailscale is probably the most life changing thing to come out for self-hosters in the last 10 years.

@picdu2891 6 күн бұрын

The fact that it works 99.99% of the time with no fuss and that you keep it free is one of the best things in the whole internet. Thank you so much for your work!

@tomreilly100 4 ай бұрын

4 months later and subnet routing is now on Apple TV. Really impressed how fast you guy are with updates.

@nathanielbarry4260 8 ай бұрын

Subnet routing on the parents Apple TV would be amazing! Connecting to the weather station “locally”, just amazing

@geneliverman6827 8 ай бұрын

It really would be awesome if it could also be a subnet router. I could totally see that as being helpful for multiple scenarios

@Sometechyguy 8 ай бұрын

Huge step forward in the selfhosted world - a subnet router option would be the icing on the cake!

@MikeFaucher 9 ай бұрын

Great video. Would love to see the subnet router capability.

@tinglis1 8 ай бұрын

Awesome. This will be so helpful. Add subnet routing and it’ll be perfect.

@averagejoestech 8 ай бұрын

I too would like to make use of the Apple TV as a subnet router. I already use an Apple TV primarily just to support Homekit; being able to add subnet routing would give me another huge functional benefit for this low power device.

@ma-jt2cz 9 ай бұрын

Awesome. I love Tailscale so far since then I started using it for several months. And I am looking forward to give a demo that how to use / configure OpenWRT based routers with Tailscale. Keep going

@mattbridges8499 8 ай бұрын

Tailscale subnet routing would be the icing on the cake for this 😊

@johnvogt621 9 ай бұрын

Love it. Hope you will let AppleTV support all tailscale featurtes in the future.

@traian658 8 ай бұрын

perfect video and I use this solution but, I need find a way to select only some apps to be routed in vpn not all apps - how to do this can you make another video ?

@mattbeef 8 ай бұрын

Subnet routing would be amazing if you want to push that up the feature list

@diver86er 8 ай бұрын

Subnet routing sure would come in handy on an Apple TV!

@jimf5561 8 ай бұрын

Support for subnet routing would be chef’s kiss!

@internetztube 7 ай бұрын

Amazing! Just switched from running Tailscale on a MacMini to Apple TV. But yeah, subnet routing would be amazing!

@trevorlyman6306 8 ай бұрын

Fantastic to see! Hope we get subnet routing soon!

@spanksen 8 ай бұрын

Thx, did i understand that right? If i have 2 Apple TVs, one in Germany and one in Turkey, and i run the Apple TV in Germany in Exit Node, i can connect from my Apple TV in Turkey with the Tailscale App running to my German Apple TV and can now stream in Turkey on my Apple TV content from German Apps like Amazon and Netflix without using another VPN Service?(they always make problems with VPN Services becouse they detect them).

@user-ei2qn6vh1s 4 ай бұрын

You explain things so well. great stuff.

@user-dn9zw1fn8j 8 ай бұрын

Love Tailscale! Please add subnet routing to the apple tv!

@cdnStephen 8 ай бұрын

It would be amazing if they added subnet routing to the ape tv app.

@whiteheadeaglejv 8 ай бұрын

Subnet Routing would be absolutely great on Apple TV.

@_____rnld 8 ай бұрын

With subnet routing would I be able to access all my local devices in my home remotely just by connecting to the Apple TV?

@pastudan 8 ай бұрын

🤯 this is huge. Subnet routing would truly be the icing on the cake

@bw00d21 5 ай бұрын

It now supports subnet routing!!!!! It works great too!!

@Skinnx86 8 ай бұрын

Wow, just need subnet routing enabled & were good to go!

@karthikganesan2025 9 ай бұрын

Finally!! Thanks for making this great feature and making our lives simpler :)

@burkee75 8 ай бұрын

Yes upvote for subnet routing!

@Christos9 6 ай бұрын

This is amazing! Well done Tailscale team!

@NJS187 Ай бұрын

Many thanks for the excellent video! I would like to route my German Apple TV through an Apple TV in the UK. Will that work if I install Tailscale on both and set up the UK one as an exit node?

@Tailscale Ай бұрын

Should do!

@BeYourselfMan 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely AMAZING!!! Please add subnet support for AppleTV. Keep up the amazing work.

@kyleruder9443 7 ай бұрын

+1 for subnet routing. That’d be dope

@xcaptz 9 ай бұрын

Great news 🎉thanks Tailscale

@AlexManMe 4 ай бұрын

Could I ask what’s the difference between this and installing WireGuard on my raspberry pi?

@jayjaywompwomp 4 ай бұрын

Alex it would be awesome if you can have per-app VPN configurations similar to what SafeShell VPN does. For example, I can route KZfaq app traffic to Albania and Netflix to Japan.

@vpl3379 8 ай бұрын

Hi Alex, Tailscale on TV OS is great but i would love to have a native package for Mikrotik Router OS. Currently only Zerotier is supported but i think a lot of homelabbers would appreciate the option. PS. Congrats on the new job :) !

@Tailscale 8 ай бұрын

See this GitHub issue for some more information on Mikrotik support. The short version is that due to performance concerns, there are no plans at this time. Never say never, though. github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/6743

@darokis 8 ай бұрын

Please add subnet routing to tvOS

@sigjudge 7 ай бұрын

What is personally love is shortcut support so that I could tie that in with launching Netflix for example, so that whenever I launch Netflix it looks like I’m at my friends house who lends me his account from time to time.

@rainmagic1 Ай бұрын

Exit node at my parents is saying not connected how could I remote reboot Apple TV

@davekorns 8 ай бұрын

I am behind a CG-NAT ISP (Starlink) and have a video NVR I can’t access remotely. I vote for subnet routing support for Apple TV. Thanks for you excellent implementation.

@amamoh 7 ай бұрын

deploy some mini router with OpenWRT (like GL-MT300N-V2 Mango) and you have subnet routing, or even cheaper some old Dell wyse 5010 with Linux.

@davekorns 7 ай бұрын

@@amamoh Thanks, I looked into OpenWRT and the Mango. Pretty cool. But I always look for the simplest solutions with the fewest "new pieces" (HW and/or SW) I have to support in my home network infrastructure. TailScale addresses my need perfectly but I have to run the MacOS version on my wife's "usually but not always on" iMac. I'd rather have that same solution in one of my Apple TV's which are truely "always on", already exist, and easy to manage.

@noobgamerstatus808 8 ай бұрын

Amazing software, my home server thanks you.

@gbraadnl 6 ай бұрын

Almost considered taking an OpenWRT setup to my brother and parents, but this seems a much easier 'no need to touch'-solution, especially as I am also abroad.

@Tailscale 6 ай бұрын

And double especially as we just added subnet routing to 1.56 for tvOS! 👌

@sharkiedoo 5 ай бұрын

⁠@@Tailscaleit’s cool, I just learned about this Apple TV support and even better news that now you support subnet routing. Great work Tailscale teams

@hornetbad 7 ай бұрын

i hope if you can make it subnet router , thank you

@kevinhughes9801 9 ай бұрын

Excelkent stuff thanks

@lukebouch 8 ай бұрын

I want subnet routing!

@waynethompson8795 2 ай бұрын

im running jellyfin in a docker container on unraid server i have tailscale on unraid set as exit node i have it on a table to watch my media while away from home i can get to server login page but this is where i get confused i dont want to give every one access to the server but what setting do i need to use so i can get direct into jellyfin so i can share it to rest of family cheers

@sudyou 7 ай бұрын

Amazing feature, but there are no option to allow access to local network from tailscale installed on apple tv !

@ross-simon 4 ай бұрын

Without having the device physically with you beforehand, could you do it in this hypothetical situation as well? HI, your mum is in the UK with her own apple tv. you are in the US and invite her as user via your tailscale account she clicks the link via her email on her computer and starts her account she downloads the tailscale app on the apple tv she then she adds her apple tv device to her account she allows the apple tv to be used as an exit node..... ..... ....... What would be the missing steps to then be able to-do the same thing as the video without setting it up yourself with your account and mailing her the device or could you not?

@JasonWho 3 ай бұрын

Yes, you can either have them make their own tailscale account and add their Apple tv, then add them to your tailnet as a user. Or you can just add their Apple TV directly into your tailnet.

@ericonca 8 ай бұрын

Amazing!

@amamoh 7 ай бұрын

Subnet routing can be achieved 10 times cheaper, buy old Dell Wyse 5010 (or something similar for 10$) and install free Linux + Tailscale on it.

@dna_remix 8 ай бұрын

I would be curious to know how the Apple TV w/ Ethernet performs when stacked up against a Rasp Pi as an exit node? Would love to see some benchmarks! From what I've read it appears that exit node performance can vary wildly between device types and OS. Thanks for the video!

@pieterrossouw8596 8 ай бұрын

I'm definitely going to test this. With an A15 Bionic and Gigabit ethernet, should be quite good.

@pieterrossouw8596 8 ай бұрын

Initial test seemed to be limited to 50mbps down for some reason. This was with my phone on a 5GHz Wi-Fi network and with the Apple TV 4K with wired gigabit ethernet. I do need to repeat the test without Wi-Fi or internet involved. PC via ethernet to AppleTV to local network speed test.

@dna_remix 8 ай бұрын

@@pieterrossouw8596 Thanks for the update, that sounds pretty bad imo... Could it be you are going through a relay rather than direct connect?

@darokis 6 ай бұрын

I want subnet routing and policy VPN to have a specific app to connect via vpn.

@MrVinceHamilton 4 ай бұрын

I'm an end user and I'm lost. I set up the apple tv as an exit node. I have tailscale app on my pixel phone set to "active". Does this mean ALL ACTIVITY on the phone will look like its coming out of the apple tv? If I switch the tailscale app on my pixel phone to "stopped" does this mean ALL ACTIVITY on the phone will look like it is coming from the current wifi / 5g I'm connected to? Thanks for any advice.

@Tailscale 4 ай бұрын

Yep! You got it!

@hemanthKumar-gj6dq 9 ай бұрын

We want an official tailscale GUI app for Ubuntu-desktop.

@elijahbutler 9 ай бұрын

FPV footage in your plex server?? Nice

@AlexKretzschmar 9 ай бұрын

Guilty as charged! Fpv is so fun!

@nicholasmincone1222 Ай бұрын

Subnet routing pleae ;-)

@ricardolopez7574 5 ай бұрын

Please add subnet routing to the Apple TV!

@Tailscale 5 ай бұрын

It’s available in the latest release! You asked for it, we built it.

@wattsy291085 8 ай бұрын

Second all the comments - make the Apple TV a subnet router

@jasonjackson4555 8 ай бұрын

Asking for a friend (seriously). Can anyone confirm that this works with Netflix so that the AppleTV running Tailscale + Netflix can connect to another Tailscale exit node (like another AppleTV)?

@JasonWho 3 ай бұрын

Yes, it works

@kristof46 5 ай бұрын

I guess AppleTV has to be turned on to be available as VPN right

@Tailscale 5 ай бұрын

It will work even when the Apple TV is sleeping.

@JasonWho 3 ай бұрын

@@Tailscale I’m sorry to report, my Apple TV (fully updated and in beta program) has to be fully on for any other device on my tailnet to use it as an exit node. If it’s off, we simply can’t reach the internet, it’s crazy and annoying. My Apple TV and TV are connected on the HDMI CEC port so either one can turn each other off, usually I turn them off using the Apple TV remote and the control panel option. And sometimes it just goes idle and turns both off. But in any case, the only time the exit node works is when it’s fully on 😢

@user-xd7zk1pw5y 16 күн бұрын

Love tailscale, but who would buy apple stuff

@satstube 4 ай бұрын

Yes Yes please #AndroidTV devices LIKE NVIDIA ShieldTV that many have would be great for another Lower power device that always on

@Tailscale 3 ай бұрын

I’ll pass this request, and all the others like it, along to our engineering teams. I’m a huge long time fan on the Shield too, mine is from 2015 and still going strong. -Alex

@noomondai 8 ай бұрын

Hi if I was to add a AppleTV device to my tailnet and use it as an exitnode, how would I configure the ACLs so the AppleTV would not have access to any other devices on the tailnet, but the AppleTV could continue to be used as an exitnode? I thought of creating a new user, and adding the AppleTV with that user and the locking down access of any devices associated with that user, but there must be an easier way. Thanks in advance!

@amamoh 7 ай бұрын

"the AppleTV would not have access to any other devices on the tailnet" this is default behavior. There is no subnet routing so it's not possible to access any other device in home network.