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Comment by lucb1e

17 hours ago

How would Tailscale run in your home network without a hardware device to connect to?

You can create a subnet router on tailscale and access any device on your local network, regardless of them having tailscale installed

Not to take away from this device, I think it’s pretty neat. But you can run tailscale on anything, even Apple TVs. If you have a Unifi network odds are that you have at least one spare computing device that can run tailscale.

  • Problem is that I think my Apple TV goes into some sort of deep idle mode where tailscale stops working. So it’s been effectively useless for me when I travel.

    • Check the Tailscale blog and docs for AppleTV. ISTR reading about an issue like this popping up and they had a workaround of some sort. Never happened to me.