TV in the Med - on your TV using the internet.

[Cardo]

I know of one application (a guy who used to post on here) where his RPi collates all his ships NMEA data and sends it to his iPad/iPhone thus integrating his mobile devices into the boat.

Mrs and I have this running on our boat, using an RPi (separate to the media RPi). Initially designed to work with a Pebble, however we're now working on a new version for the Apple Watch. Also planning to set it up so we can view all the data remotely, including anchor watch / depth alarms.

 

[c_j]

Is there anyone else on here who thinks that sounded like a new language

I was once IT literate. I used to write batch files in dos! I had 64k RAM computers multitasking when Windows was still an idea. I am up to page 3 of this thread and I am thinking, I don't understand.
So, I will buy the router, buy a sim (not sure which one yet) and get my Smart TV to connect so I can watch Netflix . I would like to watch BBC but what has a raspberry pie got to do with it? HELP! I understand why the VPN is important, in fact I know some ner-do-wells use IP hiding technology, but at what point do you connect to the VPN? Sorry to be slow with this and I do appreciate what a technically brilliant answer was given by Hurricane. I almost asked for the full info but realised I wouldn't understand.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

I was once IT literate. I used to write batch files in dos! I had 64k RAM computers multitasking when Windows was still an idea. I am up to page 3 of this thread and I am thinking, I don't understand.
So, I will buy the router, buy a sim (not sure which one yet) and get my Smart TV to connect so I can watch Netflix . I would like to watch BBC but what has a raspberry pie got to do with it? HELP! I understand why the VPN is important, in fact I know some ner-do-wells use IP hiding technology, but at what point do you connect to the VPN? Sorry to be slow with this and I do appreciate what a technically brilliant answer was given by Hurricane. I almost asked for the full info but realised I wouldn't understand.

If you're going to use your tv to consume streamed content, then you don't need the Raspberry Pi. However, if you want to consume BBC iplayer streams as if you were in the UK then you'll need a vpn client or service so that you can present a UK ip address to the BBC servers.

 

[DavidJ]

Following this thread I went down the Raspbery Pi route finding OSMC easier to understand than OpenElec. Once I realised that add-on's were actually apps then all went well.
The wifi In my marina is too slow for streaming but staying recently in a hotel (Pierre Vacances in Spain) with good wifi I found it would not connect although it would connect to my mi-fi. I suspect the hotel system somehow recognised OSMC and would not let me past the network login screen.......is this possible?
ps. The ability to download films onto a USB stick from Exodus at home for use on the boat is great.

 

[c_j]

If you're going to use your tv to consume streamed content, then you don't need the Raspberry Pi. However, if you want to consume BBC iplayer streams as if you were in the UK then you'll need a vpn client or service so that you can present a UK ip address to the BBC servers.

Thanks for all this information. Today I have bought the router suggested by Hurricane, £110; bought a "Three" 20gb 1 month contract sim £23 (to experiment with); and signed up to NordVPN 2 year deal $4 dollars a month. The instructions seem really clear on the Nord site on how to configure the router, but if you see steam rising from a boat in Club De Mar next week, that will be me. Joking, I hope to configure before I leave!

 

[PEJ]

bought a "Three" 20gb 1 month contract sim £23 (to experiment with);

I assume that is a UK data sim?

Have you worked out how to get a Spanish data only sim yet? I am struggling with this but have a trip to a Movistar shop planned for the next visit.

 

[TonyR123]

I have also got the same router mentioned (Huawei)

As for data card I have just gone for PAYG 12GB data sim from Three. Is Europe wide. I have not used either yet but taken over to mallorca. Went to local moviestar shop but was shut when i last went, hence three data sim. Doubt i will use that much hence pay as you go

For TV I have gone Apple TV and installed Mobdro. Used this in Mallorca and works well streamed via landline broadband. Very easy to setup sky sports, etc.

Not setup VPN/Smart DNS yet. I will probably go with Smart DNS but not 100%.

 

[c_j]

I assume that is a UK data sim?

Have you worked out how to get a Spanish data only sim yet? I am struggling with this but have a trip to a Movistar shop planned for the next visit.

Its a UK sim but "Three" offer me Europe wide coverage. I think I have understood this correctly. I am only committed for one month so no problem if I have it wrong. I think 20 gb may be a bit light but not sure what my usage will be.

 

[jrudge]

I use three data sims.

They are throttled, but the extent of throttling does vary.

When spain first became a in touch country it was hopeless but I think they realised that had gone too far and speeded it up. I would however be surprised ( pleasantly ) if it supports streaming.

I have also got the same router mentioned (Huawei)

As for data card I have just gone for PAYG 12GB data sim from Three. Is Europe wide. I have not used either yet but taken over to mallorca. Went to local moviestar shop but was shut when i last went, hence three data sim. Doubt i will use that much hence pay as you go

For TV I have gone Apple TV and installed Mobdro. Used this in Mallorca and works well streamed via landline broadband. Very easy to setup sky sports, etc.

Not setup VPN/Smart DNS yet. I will probably go with Smart DNS but not 100%.

 

[c_j]

Thanks for all this information. Today I have bought the router suggested by Hurricane, £110; bought a "Three" 20gb 1 month contract sim £23 (to experiment with); and signed up to NordVPN 2 year deal $4 dollars a month. The instructions seem really clear on the Nord site on how to configure the router, but if you see steam rising from a boat in Club De Mar next week, that will be me. Joking, I hope to configure before I leave!

That didn't work, I cannot confirgure vpn on that router, so cannot get iplayer on smart TV but taking laptop for iplayer and then getting draytek router with the capability for next trip. DOH!

 

[TonyR123]

CJ - can you change the ip settings for DNS? If so then use smart dns. You register your IP and then they ensure that IP comes from the UK

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

That didn't work, I cannot confirgure vpn on that router, so cannot get iplayer on smart TV but taking laptop for iplayer and then getting draytek router with the capability for next trip. DOH!

If you're going to use your laptop for iplayer, then you'll be running your vpn client on that laptop - so your current router should do the job, no?

 

[c_j]

No, unfortunately, I can set the laptop to be in UK with NordVPN and that will be fine but the router I have bought does not have the capability to do this when using the sim, so Netflix and a host of other stuff will be ok on the smart tv connected to the router but not iPlayer. I know I could mirror with Apple TV but my smart tv is currently wired to an older Bose system, and the connections are blocking the hdmi socket, and I don't really want to pull it all apart at present. Sorry I cannot be more technically precise with my information but we do have routers around our business that are capable and our IT support are going to swap one with the router I have, so looks like next visit will be fine, but not on Monday.
The draytek I need is £380, but I am away for a couple of days and I think I will stick with what works albeit without iPlayer on smart tv. I looked at the smartDNS but as far as I can understand it needs your current IP address and as that is dynamic, it could be difficult. Probably have that wrong, but I am happy with the Nord deal its just that I chose the wrong router.

 

[Hurricane]

No, unfortunately, I can set the laptop to be in UK with NordVPN and that will be fine but the router I have bought does not have the capability to do this when using the sim, so Netflix and a host of other stuff will be ok on the smart tv connected to the router but not iPlayer. I know I could mirror with Apple TV but my smart tv is currently wired to an older Bose system, and the connections are blocking the hdmi socket, and I don't really want to pull it all apart at present. Sorry I cannot be more technically precise with my information but we do have routers around our business that are capable and our IT support are going to swap one with the router I have, so looks like next visit will be fine, but not on Monday.
The draytek I need is £380, but I am away for a couple of days and I think I will stick with what works albeit without iPlayer on smart tv. I looked at the smartDNS but as far as I can understand it needs your current IP address and as that is dynamic, it could be difficult. Probably have that wrong, but I am happy with the Nord deal its just that I chose the wrong router.

Ok
So question 1 is - are you getting a good internet connection.
For example how fast can you browse?
I suspect that jrudge is correct - Three offer Europe wide 4G but seem to throttle it down to useless.

If you are getting a good internet why not simply forget VPN and load FilmOn
www.filmon.com
On this website you will be able to watch any UK live TV.
Give it a try.

 

[c_j]

I'm getting 48 mbps in UK on the Three Sim but will know on Monday what I get in Spain, I have only done a month contract to try. Thanks for info on filmon.com, that will work if I get the speed. Thanks for all the replies, really helpful.

 

[jrudge]

I am in Marseilles at the moment so a test.

I got 23meg Down. Wow. Ping was slow at 93ms.

Tried to play Netflix but it says ( wrongly ) that is has detected I am using a proxy and won't play. Hotel internet is fine so it is somethingvto do with he mobile provider ... but it was fast !

 

[adey]

3 mobile won't be any good for streaming in Spain. I tried it in Alicante this week with a Roku stick. To be honest I knew it wouldn't because of how much 3 throttle it but I wanted to try it with O2 as well but that didn't work either. I think the only option would be a Spanish 4G SIM but I'm not actually that bothered about watching TV when I'm there.

 

[jrudge]

I am in Marseilles at the moment so a test.

I got 23meg Down. Wow. Ping was slow at 93ms.

Tried to play Netflix but it says ( wrongly ) that is has detected I am using a proxy and won't play. Hotel internet is fine so it is somethingvto do with he mobile provider ... but it was fast !

To clarify this was using 3 in France

 

[jrudge]

NOw in Barcelona. Theee at home download 5mbps

 

[Hurricane]

I bought a Three contract in the UK last week for my mobile phone.
The contract has 12Gb data and Feel at Home
I only intend using it for the phone but I'm in Sant Carles, Spain at the moment so I've just done a speed test.

Only 3G here so maybe not a good test but the whole service is very erratic.
During the Broadband Speedchecker test the speed varied from nothing to 24Mbs.
Most of the time it was virtually nothing.
It seems to me that Three are chopping (if thats the word) the service as a means of throttling.
This means that Three is useless for TV - even if they were to provide enough data per month.
This is certainly the case in Sant Carles.

BTW Whitelighter ran his Vodafone phone sitting in exactly the same position 2 days ago and ran the same speedchecker with very fast and acceptable speeds.