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[SOLVED] Is their some way to disable wireless AA VPN warning? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello guys. Is their some way to disable the Android Auto VPN warning? I use a VPN quite often and every time I go in to my car this warning comes up. But I can not disable mute or suspend it. I am aware AA doesn't work well with a VPN. But having no way to like accept that is annoying. Now I have to disable the VPN which I don't always want to do. Or unpair and repair AA every time I want to use it.

Its not like you swipe the warning away. It comes back every few seconds as long as the VPN is on.

If their is someway to disable or even remove this useless feature perhaps with ADB. Do let me know.

EDIT: Thank you all who suggested to to exclude AA from the VPN app. never done this with wireguard but this was indeed the solution!

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The error doesn't pop up just because you have a VPN connected. It pops up when it can't actually communicate with the car. All it's doing is adding some extra text to the error message if a VPN is connected.

Wireless Android Auto communicates to your car using Wi-Fi Direct. Something is preventing your phone from communicating with the car. Sometimes it's an improperly configured VPN.

Does your Wireguard route all traffic through the tunnel, or only traffic for particular IPs? If it works fine when your VPN is off, that means it's an issue with your VPN configuration. The Android TV version of Wireguard lets you select just specific apps to route over the VPN - does the Android phone version support that?

For what it's worth, I use Tailscale and haven't seen this error.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Yes, the Android version also lets you exclude apps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

That's annoying as fuck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which VPN provider are you using? Maybe look for split VPN in the settings or app exclusion. Then select AA and the warning goes away and AA also works as expected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

None. Self hosted wireguard. To access some services.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

There's an almost invisible button that lets you exclude apps when you edit the profile. With android auto excluded mine works without disconnecting wireguard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Self hosted Wireguard is what I also use (though with WG Tunnel app rather than the official client for auto connect when I leave my home WiFi) but both support split tunneling when you edit the tunnel properties. Just check the AA app, save, and you're good to go.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I'm fairly positive that using WG Tunnel from f-droid as a client would allow you to set split tunnel, excluding AA from the VPN.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Do you tunnel everything or just your home net?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Wild guess: your VPN may have a kill switch or other policy that either routes all traffic through tunnel OR kills it outright if it attempts to communicate in any other way. Which may include WiFi direct since its (unsure) an IP protocol?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Is this only an AA wireless issue? I thought AA just won't start with a VPN running on the system at all. I use wireless and have a couple VPN profiles and it always shows this any time I leave it on, I think it's AA system functionality to prevent spoofing location or GPS or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I used Hail to freeze AA and just don't use it. It's broken garbage anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I can disable AA on my device no problem. But I use it sometimes too so that isn't a great solution. I agree that it is a mess though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

AA is fantastic 🤣