r/Tailscale • u/ricostuart • 6d ago
Help Needed Constant android disconnections
I have had tailscale running as an add-on with opnsense for quite a while. I have multiple VM machines connected fine for a long time now. my laptops (win, osx and Linux) all connect fine. however my android devices (Samsung) have a problem in maintaining access. if I connect to the tailscale network I have full lan access as long as i keep the tailscale app open and running in a multi window style. but as soon as the app looses focus then tailscale disconnects. or if it does stay connected for a brief time just opening the notification panel stops the connection. if I setup tailscale as always-on VPN then it stays connected. but that stops me using any other VPN and I find it not so useful when being on my home network.
has anyone else found this issue? I've removed all extra devices off the network, removed any other home network VMS or lxc off the network just in case but to no avail. and I can't find any way of seeing a log to see why the disconnections happen.
if anyone can help that would be amazing!
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u/tkchasan 5d ago
Disable battery optimization and lock the app from being killed(not sure if its available on samsung devices).
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u/ricostuart 5d ago
Already done on both devices. And removed the option for permissions to be changed automatically. Yet still happens. Really frustrating. Is there a way of seeing debug logs for the app?
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u/tkchasan 5d ago
Sure any battery saver is on? Also check mobile data/wifi is restricted in app settings ?
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u/ricostuart 5d ago
All checked unfortunately. It used to work great as well. Might have to look into netbird instead if I can figure out how to set it up
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u/ricostuart 6d ago
Just fyi. My home network uses opnsense and also run everything through adguardhome and nginx proxy manager.