Can anyone confirm if Amazon Fire TV supports VPN so I can watch American channels?
Can I use VPN on Amazon Fire TV?
Lkakashi19 on 16/06/2014 - 23:13
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You sure can, just go into settings and update the dns in the network options
Have you actually tried it? I know services like unblock-us and getflix work fine on the PC and the like, but I can't get either to work on the Fire TV. Next for me to try is VPN via my router running DDWRT.
Finally I installed VPN on Fire TV: http://www.vpntips.com/fire-tv-vpn-install/ a lot of work (need to root it etc.) but it worked.
Looks like it works with some serious hackery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1360476&pag…
You need to gain root to your device.
You need to install the TUN/TAP driver custom built for the Kindle Fire (attached in above thread).
You need to load the driver via adb.
You then use your regular VPN application. In my case, I run my own openvpn server/tunnel. I don't use any of the 3rd party services, specifically those that bundled their own brand of openvpn. So YMMV.
Having said all of that, I bought the Kindle FireTV. I will report back depending if successful or not.