I currently have Strong VPN and Surfshark VPN. I have an Nvidia Shield with TiviMate Premium that saves recordings to a shared drive on a Win 10 machine that is on the same LAN as the Shield.
Strong works fairly well, but it doesn’t have split tunneling on Windows (not a must for me) and it doesn’t have a Kill Switch on Android TV (which is something I really want). I thought Surfshark would be a great alternative. As noted in other threads on here, it is one of the few Android TV VPNs that has a KS that actually works. However it doesn’t have a “discover on LAN” option in the settings. Surfshark has it in Windows and Android, but not Android TV. So this means my TiviMate recordings fail when the VPN is on. They work fine when I record to the internal storage of the Shield, but not anything over the LAN.
Is there some workaround to this? Or is there a VPN that has a kill switch that works on the Shield, gives you access to the LAN, and has split tunneling? I have contacted Nord and they claim that they have all of this and a kill switch that works on Android TV. But from what I have read on here their KS doesn’t work on Android TV either. I have also tried the free ProtonVPN Android TV app and it allows access to the LAN but there are no settings at all (so no split tunneling or kill switch), but I am not sure if this is just due to it being the free version of Proton.
Thanks.
Miki
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I used Proton on my Shield for years. My Shield is in hibernation while I give my SK1 a full workout. So the Proton is running on it at the mall moment.
Do you happen to remember if Proton had a kill switch for Android TV that worked? Proton is more expensive but has a cheaper 1 month price, so I might just sign up for 1 month of Proton and then get if it does not have a good KS for Android TV I can try Nord. Nord claims their KS only kills the network connection for the devices selected to use the VPN tunnel which is really nice. But I’ve only heard of a couple of VPNs that have a KS that actually works on a Shield and I don’t think Nord was one of them.
Miki
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Deleted. Incorrect info. Sorry.
That looks to be a screen shot from a phone. I’m not sure if Proton is like this, but Surfshark’s Android app (for phone) and the Android TV app (for Shield) are completely different. One big difference for me is that one has “discover on LAN” option and the other doesn’t. I’ve also heard that except for Surfshark and I think Express, most Kills Switches for the Shield don’t work. But maybe that is old news and most do work now.
Miki
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It’s a screen shot off my tablet. My bad. No killswitch option on AOSP or Android TV. Sorry about that. I use the Safety dot.
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