Policy Based Routing Wireguard - Specific Application

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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This is probably crazy but I need to say it out loud to see how crazy I am.

I currently use Wireguard for a specific app on my Android TV box. I simply side loaded the android app and it does work and I have set it to only work on PSVue (the app).

My question is through policy based routing could I remove the app and set this up on my router (8devices Jalapeno) to route this specific app through Wireguard and leave everything else well enough alone?

I ask since the app is sort of flaky but does work and will continue that route if this is impossible. I imagine I would have to identify the app somehow so it knows how to route it, but my tiny brain cannot solve that issue.

Thanks.

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Sure you can. May people on this forum are running Wireguard on their router - and use policy based routing.

And you could identify the device by its IP.

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Appreciate the comment. The part that gets tricky is I do not want the entire Android TV box to go through Wireguard just a specific app to go through Wireguard on the Android TV Box.

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What's the problems with the wireguard android app?

If you want to separate the traffic from a single app then you probably need to run a vpn app anyway unless the app can be configure to use a proxy server,

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