Help with VPN and Android Casting

Anonymous · March 9, 2025, 11:39am

I want to cast my android device to my television, which I know how to do but it requires to be on the same network as the television…

So I thought I would use split tunneling on android for just my browser/app, when I do that it still disconnects me from the cast cause apparently I changed networks how to fix this?

mjdseo · March 9, 2025, 11:39am

Have you tried turning on Allow LAN Connections?

williamspacefire · March 9, 2025, 11:39am

Try to disable split tunneling, activate lan connections and turn off the option to block connections without vpn. Thats the only way i can access my home network with vpn connected,

Anonymous · March 9, 2025, 11:39am

what is that? sorry I do not know

alex_herrero · March 9, 2025, 11:39am

Exactly this. Tried yesterday and worked like a charm.

Anonymous · March 9, 2025, 11:39am

It’s a known issue that’s even reported on their GitHub.

They just either don’t have the ability to fix it or they just don’t care. They haven’t even acknowledged the problem on GitHub and it’s been there for nearly two years now.

github.com/ProtonVPN/android-app

Local network traffic seems to be routed through the VPN

opened 05:19PM - 05 Jan 21 UTC

h4ckemc2

Local network traffic seems to be routed through the VPN. For example, when tryi…ng to cast content to Chromecast devices located in the same local network as the Android device running the ProtonVPN app, cast cannot be performed. The VPN has to be shut down in order to be able to cast (e.g. casting video from streaming apps as Netflix or others). The VPN app should be able to identify whenever a local network connection is being established and not routing its traffic through the VPN, on the contrary, traffic going to the Internet should be tunneled through the VPN.

mjdseo · March 9, 2025, 11:39am

Go to settings and turn on LAN Connections. This should allow you to cast on your network