Live TV Requires VPN

[ShadowKindjal 21]

I'm currently running my Emby server in docker behind an nginx reverse proxy and it's running great and now I'd like to add live tv to my server but certain channels require a vpn to gain access to them. Is there any way for me to run the live tv traffic through the vpn but still access the server through my domain via the reverse proxy? I feel like I've hit a wall in my research.

[Luke 42078]

Hi, there's currently no option for this, but the idea has come up before and is possible for the future. Thanks.

[mwongjay 74]

On 6/2/2022 at 7:10 PM, ShadowKindjal said:

I'm currently running my Emby server in docker behind an nginx reverse proxy and it's running great and now I'd like to add live tv to my server but certain channels require a vpn to gain access to them. Is there any way for me to run the live tv traffic through the vpn but still access the server through my domain via the reverse proxy? I feel like I've hit a wall in my research.

One way you might solve this, although admittedly more complex, would be:

1. Set up pfsense as your router so you have finer control over your firewall policies
   1. In pfsense configure a vpn client that connects to the vpn server
   2. Update LAN firewall rules to push all packets from an ip (better if you use an alias that way you can apply this to multiple ip's or event a subnet) through the vpn gateway. Lets assume this ip is 192.168.1.80
2. Run xteve in a docker container and assign it a static ip of 192.168.1.80
3. Configure Emby to use Xteve at ip 192.168.1.80 for live tv

Edited June 3, 2022 by mwongjay

[Spaceboy 2573]

10 hours ago, mwongjay said:

One way you might solve this, although admittedly more complex, would be:

1. Set up pfsense as your router so you have finer control over your firewall policies
   1. In pfsense configure a vpn client that connects to the vpn server
   2. Update LAN firewall rules to push all packets from an ip (better if you use an alias that way you can apply this to multiple ip's or event a subnet) through the vpn gateway. Lets assume this ip is 192.168.1.80
2. Run xteve in a docker container and assign it a static ip of 192.168.1.80
3. Configure Emby to use Xteve at ip 192.168.1.80 for live tv

i do exactly this other than running xteve (and a couple of other things that need to go through my vpn) in a windows VM in Hyper V on my main emby pc. cost me a few pounds for the additional windows licence from ebay but i prefer the additional control that windows gives me