Multiple user profiles with VPN (tailscale)

Platforms Apple TV
1

Hi,

Know that multiple user is available, can we imagine being, for instance, at my father’s housse watching local medias on ATV / Infuse on this account AND, on my account watching my medias through Tailscale ?

Thanks

2

Hi,

Am I the only one interested?

Best

3

I continue my monologue: the VPN part works, but not the multi-account part.

I added my account to tvOS, any changes made on this new account (WAN) are propagated to the original account (LAN).

In the end, once I’m logged again into the original account (LAN), which is my father’s, I can find my Infuse account, my TrakTV account, etc.

Does multi-user works ?

Best

4

I’m not sure I totally understand what you are looking for, but Infuse itself does not have any limitations to streaming at two different locations at once.

However, it does not currently have the ability to use a watch party type feature between different accounts and different locations. But in theory, you could sort of do this manually by each of you starting the same video at the same time on each device. Play, pause, and stop would all need to be done manually.

Also something to keep in mind is if you are using the same iCloud account in both places then changes made on one device would sync to the device in the other location, which may cause issues if you are wanting to connect with a remote address on one device and locally on the other.

5

Assuming that tvOS and Infuse support multiple accounts, I would like to be able to log into my account from my father’s house and watch my series.

I can access my series from my father’s account or via my account, but the problem is that Infuse mixes everything up.

I created my account on my father’s Apple TV, added my shared TV series folder (VPN), and everything worked fine. When I returned to my father’s account, it was the same thing: the shared folders were mine, not my father’s.

6

What type of server are you streaming from? Are you using different accounts on this server? Are you using different iCloud IDs on each of these devices?

7

Let me rephrase that:

At home, I have an Apple TV 4K with Infuse Pro installed, which plays files from a Synology NAS via Ethernet. My father has the same type of setup, but I should point out—though I doubt it’s relevant—that we each have our own Apple ID. All of these devices, the Apple TV 4Ks and the NAS, run a VPN called Tailscale.

When I’m at my father’s house, I would like to be able to access my Infuse library, i.e., the files stored on my NAS. There are two options:

  1. Add a shared directory to my father’s Infuse that points to my NAS. This works.

  2. Add my account (Apple ID) to my father’s Apple TV so that we can each have our own Infuse library, then once logged into my account on the Apple TV 4K/Infuse, add that same shared directory. This doesn’t work 100%.

The problem with option two, which is the most elegant and practical, is that although Infuse is supposed to manage user accounts, or at least that’s what I understand, logging into my shared directory on my account from my father’s Apple TV 4K messes up Infuse: on his Apple TV 4K account, I find my Apple ID, my Trakt account, my Infuse library…

Is that clearer now?

8

Ok, I think I understand now.

Each profile on the Apple TV is fully independent, so changes made on one profile will not be visible on the other profile(s).

However, there have been a few cases where installing the tvOS 26 update breaks user profiles at the system level, so there would be some data shared between profiles when there shouldn’t be. This would affect all apps that use Apple’s profiles and not just Infuse.

Unfortunately, since this is a system-level issue/bug the only way to resolve it is to perform a factory restore on the Apple TV and start fresh. This has been confirmed to fix the issue for those who have been affected.

9

Ok, bad luck, thanks.