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How to use KDE Connect with a VPN on Android? (lemy.lol)

submitted 18 hours ago by QuazarOmega@lemy.lol to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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I've set up a phone with Rethink DNS as a permanent VPN, so nothing can come through, I tried putting KDE Connect in the Bypass Universal list, but it still fails to discover devices on the network and in turn it can't be discovered by others itself.
I tried without VPN active and it all works, of course. Is it possible for the 2 to coexist? If so, what settings should I change?

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[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 39 minutes ago

Turning on "Block connections without VPN options" will not make KDE connect work. Your solution is, either to keep this setting turned off, or use Rethink using another device. By using another device, I mean, set up Rethink either on your router, or maybe an old Android with Rethink installed and using using it as a hotspot with "Allow clients to use VPN" option (which is available on LineageOS, but not on GrapheneOS). Or you can also set up something like piHole.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

if you use Android's built-in setting to set up DNS instead of using an app that uses the VPN slot, you might have more success.

also, you might want toggling "block connections without VPN" off in system settings, I had to disable it when using KDE Connect with Mullvad.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd like to use Rethink DNS (forcefully set to DNS+Firewall) because it keeps a record on-device of the connections that apps tried to establish. So as I understand it's not possible to have both then?

[–] blaise@fosstodon.org 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

@QuazarOmega @noodlejetski TIL rethink DNS

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 hour ago

It's a great project yes!

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Right, the Mullvad app now has a warning that Android's "block connections without VPN" disables both split tunneling and local network discovery. So it must be off when using KDE connect.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yes, I believe the issue comes from that(edit: tried disabling it and it was indeed that), ideally one would keep that setting on, I guess there's no internal Android setting to exclude on an app by app basis unfortunately

[–] railwhale 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I also have Rethink as a permenant VPN. I set KDE Connect to 'excluded' and it works for me.

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 1 points 5 hours ago

Do you also have "Block connections without VPN" on like this?

VPN settings on Android for Rethink DNS, showing 2 toggles "Always-on VPN" and "Block connections without VPN", both enabled