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So the public services are purely for private use, to sync your mobile devices? You can install Wireguard on Android, send them over there. Though for e-reader, since they are Kobos (basically Android), you can trick it to install the app. Or even another launcher/book reader.
Kobo uses its own OS, not Android unfortunately. But I just found a tailscale plugin for it, so will try that
Install Koreader. Then install the bookorbit plugin
It’s very easy and reversible. And its really good
Yeah, not "Android" like Amazons' is not Android; all based on AOSP but not certified for Play Store. Or is it depending on the device in Kobo, do they use something else too? The ones i know (Leaf, Note) have the not-Android ROM.
Kobo runs a light linux software called NickelOS on an esp32 board. No android at all. No ability to instal apks. Its not even AOSP.
One can install a custom OS over top called KOreader which expands its usability and offers tons of community led plugins.
I hate our kobos. The app is shit. Total waste of money.
But this gives me hope. I'm going to play with this.
Just install koreader. It really saved my kobo purchase
I love my kobo precisely because there's a huge community behind KOreader. Lots of YouTube tutorials, lots of flexibility. My kobo kept dying at like 50% battery and I just assumed it was a bad battery. Turns out NickelOS was trying to cache a book infinitely in the background so the battery calibration was wildly off because it never properly achieved a sleep state when powered down.
I left it sitting for a year and a half. Charged it for a full day to balance the cells, copy pasted the files needed for KOreader, changed a config file so that NickelOS would not cache items in hidden folders, and then threw all my epubs onto a hidden folder called ". books" and boom.
New life in my kobo. I use it daily now. Battery is accurate to 20% (then it sorta doesnt turn back on but whatever). Fair warning though because KOreader is so expansive that its a rabbit hole. UI takes getting used to but the customizability is huge and it runs more efficiently without bloat and you can even use LocalSend to wirelessly push epubs from any device that can run LocalSend to the Kobo so you never have to plug it in again.
I sync book progress from my Xteink X4 pro to my Kobo Clara HD using KOSync and have my own little KOSync instance running on my homelab (but you can just use the public instances if you want).
Issue:
Most clients we instruct on homeoffice usage with vpns are already unable to remember the workflow: VPN -> (wait until green for connected) -> open work app -> Do work -> close work app -> disconnect vpn.
Now you also may not want to tunnel all traffic (if you don't have a VPS with symmetric Gbit and unlimited traffic) so you'd need to set up split-tunneling and/or limit the apps allowed for the tunnel (works in android).
Honestly? It would be easier to set up a S2S split-tunnel VPN with wireguard on the relatives router.
You can just specify AllowedIPs in the wireguard client config to route only traffic to your services through the VPN, works great.
Yes. Split-tunneling...
But if you are really hardcore about restrictions and would need to update the profiles it will be a pita...
Scheduling stuff is annoying ;-;
AllowedIPs is a client side restriction that can be ignored anyway, no real security benefit from not just putting your entire network there.
Can you ellaborate?
The user can just edit the wg conf file and remove the restriction where it can and cannot connect to.
The file is not a baked immutable binary
Oh sorry I was thinking you were talking about something entirely different. Makes sense, and yes.