Using sniproxy & bind combo with WDTV Live/Play

[georg90]

Hi!
Anybody here who owns a WDTV Live or Play device?

The WDTV is a small settop box, to stream netflix and content from you PC/NAS

As sniproxy + bind is working great with PC/iPad + netflix - it doens't work with my WDTV..
Something SSL related I guess, as the WDTV has a geolocation check, which fails once setup with the sniproxy dns url...
netflix simply gives an error message "cannot connect to netflix"

It all worked great with tunlr/unlocator. But since tunlr is shut down and unlocator is changed to paid plans, I want my own solution working for all devices at my home.

I googled a lot and read a lot of post in various forums..but I never met somebody using this combination (WDTV+"tunlr-clone")

Am I the only one? Or is there somebody that wants to share some info ?

[corporate-gadfly]

Am I the only one?

Likely not. It is listed in the Limitations section.

[t3slider]

I will say it is complicated, but it can be done -- see here. I have it working with a WD TV Play (and a Wii, and I assume it would work with other consoles/streamers as well). BUT it is not for the faint of heart. I don't know if anyone else has come up with anything better (or anything at all).

[georg90]

Hi t3slider,

I currently experimenting with your setup.
Did you have to add additional domains to be spoofed? eg. the wdtvlive.com which get's triggered within the location check in the wdtv play.

Thanks for sharing your ideas!

EDIT: Working with Chrome on my PC - still not working with the wdtv play.. any changes you made? otherwise I'll reset the device and try again

[t3slider]

No, I'm not spoofing anything other than what you see in the config files (so just Netflix stuff). I may not be running the latest firmware though so they may have updated something to require it if it isn't working. I just have to exit the Netflix application and start it again when switching between Netflix regions. I would have assumed you would only need to spoof wdtvlive.com when trying to download new geolocation-locked applications, but maybe they added a lower-level region lock to Netflix as well...

[georg90]

I was posting too fast, it's working!
Great work you did there! Now I just have to put everything together, using haproxy directly from the outer world and for my wdtv this solution works great!

Thanks again for sharing!