The VPN (Microsoft Defender) on my Samsung phone prevented to find my players

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Claude

• December 30, 2024 16:56

The BluOS app 4.8.0 on my Samsung Galaxy S21 could not find my players (NAD758 & Pulse Flex 2i) anymore. It just told my "No player found" after a while. I tried every thing I found on the internet including restarting the phone, removing and reinstalling the app, resetting all appliances for 5 minutes, resetting my router to factory settings and changing the SSID, etc etc.
The app was working well on my PC with Windows 11.

I finally found the problem:

It was the VPN (Microsoft Defender) on my phone that was giving trouble.

I removed the VPN on the phone then everything worked again.

(Settings > VPN)

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  Gerben

  • December 30, 2024 18:43

  Such behaviour is to be expected with a VPN. Depending on the specific VPN (I am unfamiliar with MS VPN), typically two options may exist to use VPN and BluOS simultaneously:

  1 allow LAN access

  2 configure split tunneling to exclude the BluOS app

  Option 1 is fine to use at home, but you would prefer to block LAN access when on a public WiFi and could easily forget to change this setting accordingly. That is why I prefer option 2.

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