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Netflix on Apple TV not in the US n various issues

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jdaniel

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So not being in the US you need a DNS service or full VPN to get Netflix, netflix works fine on my mac but I am having issues getting it to work on my atv.

I get as far as the login page then it fails and seems to detect that I am not in the US. Anyone using unotelly DNS service or something similar?

It's very weird because I enter the DNS directly into the atv, and it is also on my mac whose internet connection I am sharing with the atv via Ethernet cable
Thanks!!
 
jdaniel said:
So not being in the US you need a DNS service or full VPN to get Netflix, netflix works fine on my mac but I am having issues getting it to work on my atv.

I get as far as the login page then it fails and seems to detect that I am not in the US. Anyone using unotelly DNS service or something similar?

It's very weird because I enter the DNS directly into the atv, and it is also on my mac whose internet connection I am sharing with the atv via Ethernet cable
Thanks!!
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Isn't there a setting that identifies the country you are in? Maybe you need to change that as well.
 
With Unotelly you can have, say, a Canadian Netflix account, login to that account as Canadian. Once logged in go to the Unotelly web site Dynamo page where you can select what country you want for Netflix. Select US Netflix, reenter the Netflix app and you should get the US version.
 
institute said:
With Unotelly you can have, say, a Canadian Netflix account, login to that account as Canadian. Once logged in go to the Unotelly web site Dynamo page where you can select what country you want for Netflix. Select US Netflix, reenter the Netflix app and you should get the US version.
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Yes I have no issues with the mac I just doesn't seem to be fooling them on the atv , I am in a country with no netflix so even visiting the page would not be possible if it didn't work on my mac. Apparently the atv sees thru this Dns trickery
 
It shouldn't if you have the right DNS manually setup in the Network settings of the ATV. Are you using Plexconnect with this?
 
That's the thing with plex connect what I did was connect the atv via Ethernet to my Tb display Ethernet port and set the atv DNS to the ip of my mac and use internet sharing. There's more complications with that if I restart the mac it seems I have to disable internet sharing, first then restart after I start plex connect via terminal wish there was a simpler way.

So If my atv is sharing my connection and my connection has the dns already set should that not be enough? I access netflix on my mac no issues.

BUT it doesn't seem to work so I did apply the unodns on the atv directly just for testing it seems to allow me to sign in page instead of telling me the location is not supported, but then it stops me from going further and again it tells me not supported location. So even if I forgo plexconnect it doesn't work....

So how can I do this with plex connect too? My dns on the mac whose internet is being shared directly with the atv is already set to unotelly, I am out of ideas sigh
 
In the Plexconnect Settings.cfg file set the ip_dnsmaster to the unotelly ip. Leave everything else as normal. Plexconnect will then forward all calls from the ATV through the unotelly ip. And of course make sure the ATV is set to the ip of the computer running Plexconect.
 
institute said:
In the Plexconnect Settings.cfg file set the ip_dnsmaster to the unotelly ip. Leave everything else as normal. Plexconnect will then forward all calls from the ATV through the unotelly ip. And of course make sure the ATV is set to the ip of the computer running Plexconect.
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omg you totally fixed it !! THANKS ! now that I know you are good with these things can you help me with the rest of it?

my plex on the atv is not showing any of the art work, all I am seeing is grey boxes.. and this is a new thing that presented itself today.. I have restarted that pos numerous times, I have looked at the plex server manager on my mac to look at the agent settings...i cant see anything that might be an issue...do you know what might be the problem?
 
I responded to your thread in the Plexconnect forum on the Plex web site. Best to keep the troubleshooting discussion there.
 
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