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Hi, Eddie not registering its version number makes WinGet (which we all know is Microsoft's official package manager) want to reinstall its current version every time it checks for an update. A fix for this was requested here (nov 2021) and here (jan 2023) but still hasn't been implemented yet while it's such an easy fix. Upon further inspection, it seems development on the Eddie client is really slow, as can be seen here and here. There's some development being done from time to time but a new stable version hasn't been released in years. It makes me want to consider an alternative as it indicates AirVPN may not have their priorities straight. Can anyone weigh in here?

I bought 3 years thinking this would work fine, but since the minute I restarted my PC the program doesn't work. I've seen treads since 2021 and baffled this is still an issue and that the solution is to restart the PC (which isn't an actual solution, the program should run just fine). Is there anyway someone found how to actually fix this issue? Using windows 11, already added eddie to exceptions in my antivirus and run as administrator. I'm using Eddie version 2.21.8

I have been using this program for years. No problems. Today I do my usual. I click the icon to start Eddie. It shows it loading, etc. But then....nothing. Nothing at all. I click in Task Manager and it shows the UI running, but It is nowhere. It is not in my "Hidden Icons" either. Nowhere. So, I went and checked the site and updated to most recent version. I start the program, and still nothing after it loads. No UI. Nothing. It is still running in Task Manager, but not showing up on my desktop. I recently disabled it showing up in Hidden Icons in the settings of Eddie. That was two weeks ago and has been working fine since. Could that be the issue? How do I get this to pop up now that I disabled it showing up in Hidden Icons? I fail to understand what is going on here. Nothing has changed on my PC either, no updates, etc. It worked just fine yesterday. Is there a way I can find the settings of Eddie file and re-enable it showing up in Hidden Icons? A pic to show that it is indeed running in Task Manager. I am on Win 10 64. Please help. UPDATE: I completely uninstalled Eddie and reinstalled. It works fine now. I am going to assume there is a problem with disabling "Show in Tray" and "Minimize to tray" because there was never a problem all these years until I recently disabled (unchecked) those. I personally don't like the program starting to tray because it doesn't pop up, you have to go to tray and click it for it to pop up. I also found this post (below). But, there was no way to click on the program in the tray because that option had been disabled. The only option for me was to uninstall. So, now I am stuck having the program go to hidden tray, which annoys me.

Hello there! If this doesn't belong here, please delete and I'll get the idea lol I'm new to AirVPN and Eddie -- but running into some issues with getting connected for the first time. Ultimately I'll be looking to take advantage of some of the more advanced features and will likely be using the CLI anyways depending on what docs / help I'm able to find, but I've been having issues with eddie's UI being too small, the cli running indefinitely, and i'm just not sure if this is picture or description are as expected? maybe I just need to adjust a few things on my screen/mybrain

I just updated the android app to the 10-16-24 update to v320. It introduced a handful of problems. I was able to fix most of the problems with an uninstall/reinstall then changing some default settings (like turning off ipv6) but there's one thing that I can't get to stop. Every time I go into Eddie it wants me to enable notifications on my phone. I never got this popup before the v320 update. I cannot figure out how to get it to stop asking me to enable notifications. I cannot allow notifications for Eddie on my phone because my phone will not allow it. How do I get Eddie to stop asking me to allow notifications??

Hey folks, I wanted to give Asahi Linux a shot and tried to install the Eddie Client on my machine. When starting the program, the UI is presented to me as a black window (which can't be closed). Any ideas what the issue might be? Thanks in advance and best regards

Dear members, As you might know, on the Eddie downloads page for Linux, there is no option for RISC-V architecture 64 bits (riscv64). However, since Eddie is open source, I managed to obtain the source and build it for riscv64. I can confirm that it is working without any issues. I attached my build of the riscv64 Eddie client to this post. You can extract it and run via eddie-cli or dotnet eddie-cli.dll. Make sure you have .NET 9 SDK installed, I linked it below. Required software: - .NET SDK 9 for riscv64 (Release v9.0.0-preview.7.24405.7 · filipnavara/dotnet-riscv (github.com) - courtesy of filipnavara) - Make sure your kernel was built with the following flags. Some vendors ship kernels that lack some features that Eddie need. CONFIG_NF_NAT=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_AMANDA=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_FTP=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_IRC=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_SIP=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_TFTP=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_REDIRECT=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_MASQUERADE=y CONFIG_NFT_NAT=y CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_NAT=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_PPTP=y CONFIG_NF_NAT_H323=y CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT=y CONFIG_IP6_NF_NAT=y (Optional) (If you want to build it yourself) Build steps: 1. Obtain Eddie source (AirVPN/Eddie: UI/CLI for OpenVPN/WireGuard (github.com)) 2. Traverse into src/App.CLI.Linux/ 3. Open App.CLI.Linux.net7.csproj and change <TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework` to <TargetFramework>net9.0</TargetFramework>. 4. Remove the lines containing PublishSingleFile, SelfContained, PublishReadyToRun 5. Run dotnet build. This will take a while. 6. The command will fail with an error mentioning postbuild.sh. This part we will need to do manually. - Run ../Lib.Platform.Linux.Native/build.sh Debug shared - Run cp ../Lib.Platform.Linux.Native/bin/libLib.Platform.Linux.Native.so ./bin/Debug/net9.0/ - Run ../App.CLI.Linux.Elevated/build.sh Debug STANDARD - Run cp ../App.CLI.Linux.Elevated/bin/eddie-cli-elevated ./bin/Debug/net9.0/ 7. Copy resources folder via cp -r ../../resources ./bin/Debug/net9.0/res 8. Ready to go! cd into ./bin/Debug/net9.0 and run eddie-cli with eddie-cli or dotnet eddie-cli.dll. eddie-riscv64.tar.gz

I try opening Eddie on my fairly new Windows 11 computer and it flashes up briefly before disappearing. It was working perfectly for several months and then this happened. When I tried to shut down, Windows said Eddie was preventing shutdown. I forced it to stop with Task Manager. When I restarted it asked if I wanted Eddie to make changes to my computer. I, maybe foolishly, said yes. I uninstalled Eddie and still got a message that it was preventing shutdown. I reinstalled it, hoping an update may have fixed the problem, but it's the same. Edit: I have now solved the problem. I had to manually reopen the main interface and was looking in the wrong place for the icon.

I'm on macOS sonoma, using Eddie with network lock and port forwarding set up in qbittorrent. I'm not getting any transfer activity. The interface list in the advanced settings doesn't have "eddie" like it does on pc. I've been trying them all, but nothing seems to enable transfers. I've attached a screenshot of the options available to me. I have a feeling it's one of the utun0-6, but I can't get it to work. Any help?

Ive followed instructions below (both methods, same resulting interface) to bind qbit to Eddie and it did not work. I tested with this ubunti torrent which should stop when you disconnect and it did not stop.

I hope this doesn't break any rules, please let me know if it does (that's why I posted here) I'm not looking for AirVPN alternatives - more than happy with my 3 years with Air! Unfortunately though, Eddie doesn't work properly on my linux distro (ZorinOS), which I've customized quite a bit. So I'm looking for other clients that I can use AirVPN's servers on, that will hopefully work better. Any recommendations?

Hello 1. I have Eddie installed and configured (it's working) 2. I have Open VPN Gui installed and working (it's working) When I use connect to a server from Eddie it's working fine When I Use Connect from Open VPN it works fine as well but How can I connect a VPN and use a networklock simultaneously? IN eddie I can either choose to connect or to lock network - it confuses me a lot.

I have included a link to the article regarding how the TunnelVision technique can be used to manipulate traffic away from the VPN tunnel. My big question is does Eddie support Network Namespaces in the Linux client. "It is not feasible to fix the issue by simply removing support for the DHCP feature because this could break Internet connectivity in some legitimate cases. The strongest recommendation we have is for VPN providers to implement network namespaces on operating systems that support them, similar to the method described in WireGuard’s documentation. Network namespaces are a Linux feature that can segment interfaces and routing tables away from the local network’s control, and other operating system maintainers should consider whether namespaces are feasible to implement. " https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/tunnelvision

Hello everyone I've had a problem for a few days Unable to connect Eddie. He keeps trying to connect but can't do it. If anyone can help me, that would help me a lot. thanks in advance

Hi, I'm on Linux Mint 21.1 and I've installed the Eddie client (version 2.21.8, installed via apt). When I open the Eddie window, I can use it to connect to the VPN, but if I close the window, it closes the VPN connection. I would expect the connection to stay up when the client window is closed. Is there any way to do that? I've looked it up and it doesn't seem to be a common issue. If this is a normal feature of Eddie, would switching to a CLI client solve the problem? Or would I need that terminal window to stay up as well? Thanks! Edit : I found the answer, im putting it here in case other people have the same question : simply right-click the tray icon and select "hide main window", very easy

Hi All I have been using AirVPN with the Eddie Client for Mac since moving from Mulvad. Mulvad allowed me to Print documents from my mac to my Networked printer however I don't seem to be able to find the printer when using Eddie and need to disconnect from the VPN to print. Is there a simple way to print on my Lan whilst connected to VPN? Thanks

Hello, I recently got AirVpn. I can't connect to a server using the Android Eddie client. I get an error with quick connect. It gives me an error about end of the server list, no server available for connection. I set my default server to Japan in the server tab since automatic connection tries to connect me to Singapore which is extremely slow server for me. I'm using the latest Eddie client from Google play and Android 13 with March update on Google pixel 7. Thanks for your assistance.

Hi everyone.😀 Sorry if the English is bad, I use google translator as a helper. My operating system is Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon. when I became a member on January 23, 2018, everything worked as it should. but not anymore, the problem has been there for a really long time. But I agree with this problem if no help is found. Eddie no longer starts when I press "connect to a recommended server," the screen just shows "waiting for latency test" and nothing happens. But I get Eddie to work, but when I press "cancel" and select the desired country from "server", Eddie starts without problems. This has to be done every time I start eddie. I would also like to ask if it is better to keep Deactive or Activate network Lock. I keep activated ?.! I've never been familiar with the settings, I don't know if they need to be changed in any way, if everything works otherwise? If there is something that should be done in the settings, I would be grateful for the information. Thank you very much..🤝

Hi, I would like to set up split-tunneling by using the "routes" tab within the Eddie client (Windows). I want all traffic to be sent outside of the tunnel, except for my torrent client qBittorrent like it is described in this forum post. Unfortunately, the comment by the staff member did not include an explanation with steps how to do this exactly. I want to be sure that I am doing it correctly, so just guessing or trial and error is not an option, as I am worried about exposing my IP address if I do not set it up correctly. I was not able to find an explanation for this as all the other forum posts that I found only explained how to do it with using external software and not the Eddie client. My knowledge about networking is somewhat limited. So how exactly do I either exclude all traffic except from the tunnel except for the one specified? And how do I know which IP addresses I need to include for qBittorrent? are there multiple or just one? If someone knows how to see which one(s) it is in the "execution log" within qBittorrent please let me know. Adding these details in case they make a difference: I have port forwarding set up and use wireguard as a protocol and I have the Web-UI enabled to use with Prowlarr. I don't know if I am using IPv4 and/or IPv6.

Good morning I installed Eddie on my TCL TV and I would like it to run when my TV starts up in order to avoid any leaks but I cannot find this option. Can you tell me how to do it? THANKS

My knowledge is lower intermediate at best but let me explain myself. So I got the AIRVPN sub, setup port forwarding, setup port forwarding in qbitorrent and all seemed gravy. One problem the speeds are bad, like real bad terrible even. So I go on this forum and read a post about using wireguard with airvpn. So I download wireguard and generate a protocol thru this site and paste into the wireguard it connects. Speed much better and still says I'm in another country. Here's the rub: The torrent I'm downloading in qbitorrent is now saying "stalled" and I'm seeding nothing also Eddie is continuously saying "connecting" and "restarting". I read somewhere saying to go into protocols/ prefs/ uncheck auto/ choose wireguard/ and then save. No changes. I figured I did something wrong somewhere or didn't do something.... Now I'm wondering about something call DNS leaks? Basically any help you can give me would be appreciated.

Hello! Firstly, I have a win10 PC, and at this time was running Eddie with qbitrorrent 4.6.0, and Eddie and qB are binded via the torrent clients settings. I normally seed overnight and leave my PC and VPN running. This morning when I went to check on my PC, I saw a notification that at 3:47AM it disconnected and then reconnected 2 min later at 3:49AM. I checked the logs, and I don't really understand what happened exactly, but through some key words it appears the server was Inactive, had to restart, and attempted to reconnect (successfully)? Here's a screenshot of just part of the logs when it first disconnected, starting at 03:47:03, but will also attach the full .txt file. Now for my question: Is there something I need to do to fix this or is just an occasional occurrence, and this happens here and there? Since I had Network Lock activated, my IP was not leaked during that 2 minute disconnection, right? I searched the forums for a bit and saw that someone had a similar inactive error, but their issue may have been due to using the same server+key(?) for 2 devices. At this time, I only had Eddie running on one device (this PC). I do have it on another laptop, but that laptop has been completely off since the last week, so I don't think that would be the issue? Thanks in advance for any answers or information. Love the client, and my questions may be dumb, but I'm very interested in learning what happened so that I have a better understanding going forward. Eddie_20231117_075642.txt

When I whitelist one app, all the apps are now bypassing the VPN. This is not the definition of whitelisting. I mentioned this on the review I gave on the Google Play Store and I get a reply saying that I have this backwards??? Techtarget definition : What is a whitelist (allowlist)? A whitelist (allowlist) is a cybersecurity strategy that approves a list of email addresses, IP addresses, domain names or applications, while denying all others. Surfshark definition : VPN whitelist (aka Split Tunneling): Allows chosen apps and websites to bypass a VPN (Virtual Private Network) even when it is turned on Why is someone replying to my Google Play review that I have it wrong? What am I missing?

I am using Eddie on Mac but it prefers to use OpenVPN instead of Wireguard for some reason. I want to use Wireguard when possible (my network supports it) for the speed and latency benefits. Please add an option to add a preferred protocol.

Preface, I'm kind of dumb when it comes to VPNs and networking and all that. I'm gonna need the dumbed-down version. I have Eddie set to stay connected to one server and Always-On VPN is on in my phone. However, it keeps disconnecting. I get the alert attached. What gives? Is this just how Eddie operates? I'm really having a hard time with the UI and with it continually disconnecting.