I am trying to add tonies when I am not at home To do this my plan is to make a wifi hotspot with my phone and tunnel the traffic from the toniebox home with a vpn (wireguard).
I have TeddyCloud running on a respberry pi and also a wireguard (pivpn) instance. Unfortunately, this is not complicated enough. Port 443 is in use on the pi so i used macvlan according to this link. I assigned a seperate ip adress to the docker container (192.168.1.66). The pi has 192.168.1.65. Everything is working so far.
I confirmed that my wireguard instance is working. I can access other ip adresses on the network when I am not at home i.e. 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.65
The only ip adress i cannot reach is 192.168.1.66.
After some research i learned about a limitation of macvlan link. Maybe a can get this to work but then i found out that on android the wifi hotspot data is not tunneled through VPN
Has anybody managed a easy setup so you can play new tonies when you are not at home for initial setup? Any ideas? Lets say the kids get a tonie as a gift and want to play it immediately?
Hosting Teddycloud public on the internet is also a bad idea i think.
TeddyCloud is awesome! Thanks for your great work!
just to promote your question: I am also planning to do the same with a similar set-up. I didn’t try yet as I have only set-up my @home wifi on the toniebox. Is there anything to consider when setting up a second wifi (for the hotspot)? Then I will try as well.
I don’t understand your comment “on android wifi hotspot data is not tunneled via VPN”. When I use my smartphone with VPN tunnel (wireguard) activated as hotspot the clients can access my remote network as well…
I used pivpn because it is very easy to set up. Generated a user. Scanned the qr code with the phone. Forwarded the port on the router. Done.
Unfortunately, my hotspot client (laptop) cannot access the remote network. To verify this, I did the following: I removed my phone from local wifi. I remove my laptop from local wifi. I activate wireguard on the phone. Then I activated the hotspot on the phone. Then I connected my laptop to the phone hotspot.
On my phone I can access i.e. 192.168.1.10. On my laptop I cannot access. This leads me to the conclusion that wifi hotspot traffic is not routed over wireguard. I found also lots of threads on the internet with the same problem: Link or Link. Did you have to check some box on the phone or how did you get this working? My only option I think is to take a cheap travel router with me as a VPN gateway.
My big mistake was that I hosted wireguard on one ip and because 443 was already in use on that device I created a second one with macvlan and put Teddycloud there. As far as I understand there is no direct communication between those two ip addresses possible. I would not recommend this. I never got it working.
it’s been some time since you wrote the last post. I’m facing the same challenge, have you found a solution?
My plan was to set up a VPN connection to home via smartphone when i am away from home and share it with the Toniebox via hotspot and use the hotspot to play new Tonies.
I was very surprised when I found out that VPN connections under Android are not shared with the hotspot participants.
To do this my plan is to make a wifi hotspot with my phone and tunnel the traffic from the toniebox home with a vpn (wireguard).
