I’ll get right to it. My father is in his 80s and is a long time NJ Devils fan. He recently lost access to said Devils games because the broadcaster and the cable company are greedy and evil.
The Devils are really good this year and he doesn’t have many seasons left, and I don’t want him to miss out.
How difficult would it be for me to get a VPN set up to fool his TV into thinking he’s not in New Jersey? I want to share my Hulu password with him so he can watch the games (I live in MN and get most of the games with my subscription).
As said before, he’s in his 80s and is a complete nightmare with anything tech related, so it would need to be something I could just have someone set up, and it would never need to be touched again. Ideally he’d be able to just turn on Hulu and watch the game.
I’ve done this for a grandparent. In my case, I opted for a more expensive route that was more fool-proof.
I purchased a gl.inet travel router, installed the VPN onto that, set up a VPN kill switch so that it would route all traffic over it, then connected the TV to that.
I did it this way because their TV kept dropping the VPN connection when using the locally installed VPN app and I got tired of walking them through fixing it.
Use a Google Chromecast with Google TV, or the new Google Streamer which is the same thing. It’s just Android, so you can install a VPN app. Then all other apps go through the VPN.
You’ll need to see if the app supports turning on when the device boots. Otherwise you’ll have to teach him to enable the VPN first. The device reboots often with automatic updates.
Get a pair of our routers, one for your side, one for dad’s side. You’ll set up WG server on your side, WG client on his side. You’ll set up the WG client to tunnel from his house to your house for the TV only. Once it’s set up, there’s nothing to touch. Just turn on the TV and Hulu will think that he’s watching from your house.