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As from the title: when I am connecting to my Plex (running on my Synology NAS at home) from my Android phone connected to my car (with Android Auto) and the WireGuard tunnel is active, the album covers are not being displayed.
If I instead disable the WireGuard tunnel on my mobile, the album covers are shown.
I don’t have any firewall rules in place for when the Android device is connected via WireGuard: it has full access to the whole subnet and ports.
Does anybody know what difference is causing the album covers not to be shown?
TIA
Thanks for your reply.
In what way AA would want to transfer any data into the VPN? I mean: I don’t know exactly how AA works, but I thought it would simply be some sort of “docker” or “enabler” for apps that are “AA-compatible” so that these apps can be shown on the in-car display?!
Anyway: how can I exclude AA from the VPN as well? Any hint will be appreciated - thanks!
I don’t massively understand the technicalities of it but it’s something like AA uses a combination of Bluetooth and WiFi Direct where the head unit supplies the phone with an IP address to connect, but this cannot be reached through a VPN.
As for excluding apps this can easily be done with wireguard by editing the tunnel on your phone clicking where it says “All Applications” and using the check boxes to exclude apps (this is assuming you are using the official wireguard app)
So here I am, after excluding AA from WireGuard. Well, the situation hasn’t changed: I still don’t get the album images displayed
How to troubleshoot further?
No, I just use Plex.
But now I “came clean” with myself I’ve excluded Plex app from WireGuard and now I can see the album covers.
My original idea/goal, was to access my Plex through WireGuard VPN and disabling the remote connectivity from Plex towards their “cloud” (so to speak). But now I don’t really want to fight this thing anymore: my Plex is connecting to Plex server and my Plex client does the same. The encrypted tunnel between my Plex at home on my NAS and the Plex server will let me stream and see the covers from my Plex app on Android (same concept - it’s an encrypted connection).
The only thing I don’t understand, is why it wouldn’t work when accessed directly through the VPN… anyway…
I’ve installed it a few hours ago, looks nice and indeed I only need it on my mobile device for music streaming… The first impression is quite good, but I miss “Random Album” Radio… do you happen to know if it’s possible to create such a radio station?