Wishlist: VPN via max2play

I too would like VPN.

Thanks

Just got my first PI today – loving M2P!

There are a couple of things I would like so definitely +1 to VPN and/or maybe FTP?

I have fudged a DDNS by using Chron, but maybe a more elegant way would be beneficial or is that just me? I couldn’t use apt-get, but am guessing that’s intentional and my knowledge of linux is severely limited anyway, so really grateful that this was OS was put together

Hallo,

wann kann mit VPN-Unterstützung bei max2play gerechnet werden?

Meine Versuche, den VPN-Manager für Kodi zu nutzen, sind alle gescheitert.

I would very much like the ability for Max2Play to use a VPN to defeat geo-locking. Pandora recently pulled out of Australia and I miss it.

I too would like to have OpenVPN added to your product.

Raymond Day – please read my original post to understand why the ability of Max2Play to use a VPN is desired – Pandora is one, BBC iPlayer is another. There are many geo-locked services that a VPN allows access to.

About the LCD screen brightness. At lest the 7 inch touch one I have.

Went to try and test dimming it but so I went to this web site. Went to the folder /sys/class/backlight and did a git clone https://github.com/linusg/rpi-backlight.git because that folder is not there. But it says Permission denied and I log in as root. I guess it’s not a real root or I just don’t know why.

I was going to take the SD card out and mount it in another Ubuntu. But it’s to hard I would have to open up this hole case to get the SD card out.

If could do the dimming on the command line there are other web sites that say how to install a light sensor.

Tested tying it another way but it don’t work ether.

root@bed-max2play:~# pip install rpi_backlight
Downloading/unpacking rpi-backlight
  Cannot fetch index base URL http://pypi.python.org/simple/
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement rpi-backlight
No distributions at all found for rpi-backlight
Storing complete log in /root/.pip/pip.log
root@bed-max2play:~#

-Raymond Day

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by Raymond Day.

Hi folks,

I’ve just found this thread after checking out where Max2Play is at these days (I’ve not used it for a few months). I would very much like to see a VPN implementation. One of the reasons I’ve switched away from Max2Play is the lack of VPN support. OpenVPN support would seem a good first step. I have a subscription with PureVPN and their Kodi addon works flawlessly on the same Raspberry Pi B+ (using LibrELEC OS)on which I also ran M2P. Interestingly though, I’ve not had much success with PureVPN on my QNAP HS-251+ NAS. There, OpenVPN works better than other protocols (PureVPN can use several different protocols) but I haven’t been successful yet! Thought I’d share this, as implementation clearly needs careful research.
Come to think of it – isn’t there a Kodi implementation for Max2Play? So presumably any VPN addons for Kodi would work with Kodi on M2P, so there is already a partial implementation on M2P and that should be a help in creating a native M2P VPN addon, shouldn’t it?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by nickc. Reason: Additional thoughts

Hi steve,

Thanks for the feedback. Could you give us some detail what exactly you would want from a VPN integration in Max2Play and what it should achieve?

Hi steve,

I’ve talked some with our experts on the subjects and it’s not feasible on a security level to open your home network to the Pi’s port for VPN usage. It is much safer and preferred to have the VPN on your whole home network and make sure the security of your private connections is ensured. The VPN would open up your home to exploits.