Amr Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Hello everyone, Need some help with a trick or a work around for Pandora and iHeart Radio on Control4! I use a Smart DNS which works perfectly house-wide on all devices except for Control4! For Pandora I can log in normally but it says Country Code is Restricted, also iHeart Radio doesn't allow to login and says restricted in your country! Amazon and Dezzer works perfectly, I don't have Spotifiy Premium! Am obviously outside us and running HC800 with the latest and greatest 2.10.4. Cheers, Amr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokead Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 I'm interested to know how you got around it for Amazon? I have a US Amazon account but my Prime account is in Canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstar Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 14 hours ago, Amr said: Hello everyone, Need some help with a trick or a work around for Pandora and iHeart Radio on Control4! I use a Smart DNS which works perfectly house-wide on all devices except for Control4! For Pandora I can log in normally but it says Country Code is Restricted, also iHeart Radio doesn't allow to login and says restricted in your country! Amazon and Dezzer works perfectly, I don't have Spotifiy Premium! Am obviously outside us and running HC800 with the latest and greatest 2.10.4. Cheers, Amr I can't say for sure but I would think a full VPN solution like offered by your current Smart DNS service should work (says they are supported)? https://www.smartdnsproxy.com/ https://www.smartdnsproxy.com/Services Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Smart DND proxy is the VPN provider I use, so I believe there is a setting in Control4 forces the Region code ...Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 I'm interested to know how you got around it for Amazon? I have a US Amazon account but my Prime account is in CanadaI use Smart DNS proxy and I have all US services, no sweat!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Tokead 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vstar Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 20 hours ago, Amr said: Smart DND proxy is the VPN provider I use, so I believe there is a setting in Control4 forces the Region code ... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk your location is set at the beginning of your project but i would be very surprised if the driver was passing along that information and overriding your VPN/DNS service but i suppose it is possible if they are working fine as other regions on your other devices using the same service? you will need composer HE (Home Edition) to look or change it, see page 7 and 8 https://www.control4.com/docs/product/composer-he/user-guide/latest/composer-he-user-guide-rev-s.pdf Maybe there is a setting in the driver itself i suppose? sorry the only one i am currently using is tunein so I can not check the ones you mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcovach Posted September 21, 2018 Share Posted September 21, 2018 I'm pretty sure the locale in your project needs to be set to a US city in order for the pandora driver to work even if you have a VPN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted September 21, 2018 Author Share Posted September 21, 2018 I'm pretty sure the locale in your project needs to be set to a US city in order for the pandora driver to work even if you have a VPNOk, I changed to US location, rebooted the controller but iHeart did not work, I didn’t tried Pandora yet, I will try and see if this has any effect.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 Nothing works, I will need some more research, am using Roku Minidrives for now, not a very cool option, specially if all I want is to stream in audio-only zones ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted September 25, 2018 Author Share Posted September 25, 2018 Ok, IHeartRadio is not working whatever I do, It maybe an issue with VPN provider as the issues with web interface not IOS or Android app!? Pandora works but u have to change LAT/Long to a US city and never change it to your actual location! U don’t have to be in US time zone thought!Anyways, no Pandora or iHeartRadio for me!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashkan Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 Hey @Amr, have you ever ended up getting Pandora working? same boat as you in Canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amr Posted December 4, 2020 Author Share Posted December 4, 2020 On 12/3/2020 at 1:38 AM, Ashkan said: Hey @Amr, have you ever ended up getting Pandora working? same boat as you in Canada Yes, I use a US address in the project and I have a house wide Smart DNS service that tricks these services into getting it to work, so I have all working now. The problems of putting a US address it will miss up any kind of scheduling and temperature reading will be not related, nothing else will matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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