Posts by zomboided

The import function assumes just one provider, and will try and common up files (like ca.crt, pass.txt, etc) that are supplied.

You can absolutely use multiple providers if you ensure the paths in the files are all correct (and absolute). For example you might have one ovpn file with "ca .../provider1/ca.crt" and "auth-user-pass ../provider1/pass.txt" and another ovpn file with "ca .../provider2/ca.crt", etc.

If you use the import wizard to import just one provider, you should see the resulting files, which can then be duplicated/modifed. There are some words on the github wiki about this too.

The log shows that authentication is failing, no doubt. See this issue here NordVPN Authentication not possible · Issue #227 · Zomboided/service.vpn.manager · GitHub

Quote from dynamiike

Hi,

when I'm connectet with the vpn the internet connections stops. But it says I'm connected to the vpn. I can connect to the vpn without problems with my PC and my andoid app. I tried reinstall the addon and change alle the settings. I use Libreelec 9.01 with raspberry pi 3. My vpn provider is private internet access. I also tried different servers. My internet connection is back as soon as i disconnect from the vpn.

I hope you can help me

The log shows the connection initializing just fine. I can see this in two places. it also seems to remain connected. There does seem to be some network issues though so I don't doubt you're having issues. You could try resetting the VPN provider and deleting the downloaded files to see if doing a fresh connect fixes it. Or it might be some kinda DNS issue. There's some trouble shooting suggestions on the wiki linked from the first post. However, I use the exact same set up as you (albeit with PIA's UK and US servers) and don't see this problem at all, so I'd guess it's something in your environment. that's causing the issue.

You can do this by not connecting on boot and filtering the addons you want. When you’re not running those addons, it’ll return to the default state of not connected

When it's blue the text that's displayed tells you that an update is available.

So it means the VPN provider you're using has been updated which you can choose to ignore if you're ok with the location(s) you're using

It's a hommage to the bug in Street Fighter II that occasionally made a fireball turn red.

The information presented is what the provider chooses to make available.

For *some* providers you can switch between the profile name and the server name. For others, you can't.

If you have specific servers you want to use and the provider only makes automatic country names available then it's up to you to work out what those servers and and use the user defined option to make those selectable for you.

The file/directory problem appears to be a Kodi issue, not an addon issue. Maybe it's better with 18, I've not tested.

Yes, I could support sub directories for the add, but the reality is you should just be doing this once, so equally the user can copy everything into one directory and add all at once so I'm not seeing this as something really worth spending effort on.

You can't change the directory names, especially the user defined one as it'll stop working. Maybe I'd do this differently if I wrote it again, but it's embedded into the code now.

According to their website, Cyberghost proudly claim over 3000 servers in their pool. I've ZERO interest in maintaining all of those in an ongoing basis (I've actually zero interest in even adding them all to start with).

The ones that are offered up in the add-on are (were) a per country server, where I think they (used to) connect to a random server within the country, which is where you see a different address from what's there.

I think what you're telling me above is a subset of the 3000+, where the two digits relate to the server within a given country.

So do the existing servers work? If not, then I think it's time to remove support for Cyberghost. If they do, then that's great, and people that don't care about using random servers can carry on, and people that don't can add the subset of the 3000 they want to use via the User Defined option.

The German location is fixed, you'll see notification that there are updates and you'll have to validate the connection again. All of the other locations I tried replied to a ping so I don't believe they're broken. If you do, you'll need to be specific about which ones.

I noticed that the screen resolution changed on all of my 3 upgrades (RPi 2 and 3) after upgrade (to something really low). And the code in Kodi 18 behind displaying settings has been regressed somewhat. I just accepted that I had a spot of reconfiguring to do after the upgrade...and any way it was way less painful than starting again.

You need to use User Defined rather than the built in, so it'd be up to you to ensure the ovpn files you're using are correct/current and put everything in the User Defined directory.

See 09. User Defined VPNs · Zomboided/service.vpn.manager Wiki · GitHub

I think it tells you everything you need to know, but come back with questions if not.

Yes it was added about 6 months ago

VPN Mgr 6.0.2 is on the repo and can be downloaded from GitHub

It adds support for Shellfire VPN using their API so that any changes they make to servers, etc are available immediately in the add-on.

It also fixes a bunch of things changed/broken in Kodi 18 Leia. I've tried to make upgrade work, and I think it does on Kodi 17, but if you upgrade to Kodi 18 first, and then upgrade to VPN Mgr 6.0.2, then you'll probably see an error which will require you to reboot the system before VPNs happen again. After this everything should work as expected.

Unfortunately you can no longer see the add-ons selected for filtering directly from the settings page. They're still active though, and you can see them if you select the appropriate line/option. I've raised a bug against Kodi.

Any other issues, first try uninstalling and reinstalling the add-on before you post a bug report. I don't wanna spend any more time chasing issues caused by the changes between 17 and 18, and will focus development on 18 going forward.

Quote from Popeye2468

I actually have it fully working with 2nd and 3rd connections now I set it up in v17 first then installed 18 and it works as expected, the only thing I'm now trying to figure out is VPN manager installation on ubuntu, can get everything working but the kill all, its grinding on me keeping me up lol, if anyone has any advice they would like to share to help, It would be greatly appreciated

01. Installation · Zomboided/service.vpn.manager Wiki · GitHub

killall needs to run without requiring a password?

Quote from pimo17

Hi Zomboided

When do you get the update 5.0.8 of your addon?

I found an extra bug in addition to the slower connection with the vpn Hyde my ass. When your addon is activated the keyboard goes from azerty to qwerty and we can not do anything in the settings (in system the librelec icon does not work too)

Courage for your efforts.

kodi 17.6 openvpn 5.0.7 on librelec raspberry pi3

Try deleting zomboided.xml in /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps

There's nothing else happening in the addon to change the keyboard, but it's possible that there was a bug that screwed up the keymap.

If your problem is that the second vpn is greyed out then as was explained, it's a Leia bug. The same bug exists across all platforms. Use a non beta (ie Kodi 17) build and you'll be fine

Ok, so Kodi 18 is no longer beta, I'll test against it and raise bugs against the Kodi devs. 17 is still the answer for now.

See the first post, which links to the wiki page on download and installation and also the trouble shooting page. There are Windows sections in both that will tell you what to do.

I don't think it's a problem on Windows, or platforms that have the up/down scripts installed to kick a network manager. But I don't know if the experience differs across VPN providers. No trouble shooting needed, I just need to go read and understand some code. Meantime, if you're that worried, hard code your providers DNS or a free one into LE.