Reverse proxy issues with Android TV Apps

[Huehuehue 2]

Good evening Gents, I require some assistance with figuring out why I can't connect to my emby server from the Android TV apps.

I have a reverse proxy setup with nginx using my domain emby.insertdomainhere.com pointing to the docker container for Emby, everything works fine on the mobile applications but when I go to connect on the Android TV apps it always fails to connect, I have added various scripts to upgrade the headers in Nginx, made sure all my networking settings are correct ect I just can't seem to find a way to get it to work.

 

If anyone else has gone through this issue and could offer some advice to point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

[Luke 42414]

Hi, have you compared your reverse proxy setup to this?

 

[Huehuehue 2]

Hello,

Yes I took a look and tried to use the config provided (after I modified everything that was required) but unfortunately it just breaks the reverse proxy connection all together. 

[Huehuehue 2]

I have been able get the reverse proxy working in general (Still doesn't work on android TV) with the below config, but if I add in this line 'proxy_http_version 1.1' it completely breaks, still won't work if I add in the proxy header lines below it either. 


 

 

 

proxy_buffering off;

 

proxy_set_header Range $http_range;

proxy_set_header If-Range $http_if_range;

proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

proxy_set_header Host $host;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;

proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";

 

 

proxy_read_timeout 600s;

proxy_send_timeout 600s

[tollgate 10]

Not a solution to your nginx issue. But perhaps try caddy? My caddy config file just contains this and works with everything:

leno.mydomain.uk {
       reverse_proxy localhost:8096
}


 

 

[Luke 42414]

On 4/18/2026 at 8:53 PM, Huehuehue said:

Hello,

Yes I took a look and tried to use the config provided (after I modified everything that was required) but unfortunately it just breaks the reverse proxy connection all together. 

How does your compare to the one I linked to?