Tailscale service add-on does not persist login across boots

  • Running LibreELEC 13 nightly 20260927 with the latest version of the Tailscale add-on, on a LattePanda IOTA. Running tailscale up or tailscale login manually fixes the broken service and allows pinging other nodes. After a reboot, Tailscale no longer works and requires another tailscale up (which, curiously, does not ask for a login, so the state is stored somewhere) or tailscale login (which does request a login).

    Logs from journalctl -u service.tailscale: https://paste.libreelec.tv/unbullying-brittani.log

    Any help is appreciated ^^. If any additional information is needed, let me know.

  • Still having the issue. Seems like adding

    Code
    ts_connect="true"

    to the ~/.kodi/addons/service.tailscale/bin/tailscale.start script before the if [ "$ts_connect" = "true" ]; then line fixes it. The "Enable" setting is definitely on in the UI, but it doesn't seem to actually be set in the script. Curiously, when I open the settings, change nothing, and click "Ok", it still says settings were changed and asks to restart the service.

    Regardless, I've decided to just move away from the Tailscale add-on and use a separate machine as a reverse proxy to my Jellyfin instance.

  • The tailscale add-on was largely developed by Claude (driven by me, who is not a software architect) over a long weekend at Kodi DevCon when lots of beer was drunk. I'm still amazed it works at all, so there are likely many opportunities for improvement :)