Just a personal use case, maybe it isn’t an advantage. But the official android app is just a web wrapper and the use of MPV as external player don’t allow self-signed local certificates (and they never will…).
Findroid does the job for you while using MPV under the hood and you can connect to your local DNS with self-signed certs without any issues :).
I have no issues connecting to my server when using my local DNS and self-signed certificates with the normal app either, or perhaps I’m misunderstanding you.
Ohhh? I tried to make it work even adding the certificate into de /data folder of MPV (rooted android) but it didn’t worked… (source)
I remember I even checked the logs via ADB and while I can’t remember the exact error logs, it wasn’t accepting my certificate.
Also android MPV is the only application on Android that doesn’t accept my self-signed certificate. Navidrome, HTTP shortcuts, bitwarden, Tempo… They all accept without any problems.
If you have some juicy info to share I’m all ears 👍 !!
Not sure, I must say I let Caddy do all the certificate work for me. I know Caddy also creates an ACME CA signed certificate, perhaps even if you connect locally it’s using that somehow instead of the self-signed one it creates?
Regardless, not much juicy info on my end. I used Caddy and “It just works™”. Might be worth a shot for you too.
Just a personal use case, maybe it isn’t an advantage. But the official android app is just a web wrapper and the use of MPV as external player don’t allow self-signed local certificates (and they never will…).
Findroid does the job for you while using MPV under the hood and you can connect to your local DNS with self-signed certs without any issues :).
I have no issues connecting to my server when using my local DNS and self-signed certificates with the normal app either, or perhaps I’m misunderstanding you.
Ohhh? I tried to make it work even adding the certificate into de
/data
folder of MPV (rooted android) but it didn’t worked… (source)I remember I even checked the logs via ADB and while I can’t remember the exact error logs, it wasn’t accepting my certificate.
Also android MPV is the only application on Android that doesn’t accept my self-signed certificate. Navidrome, HTTP shortcuts, bitwarden, Tempo… They all accept without any problems.
If you have some juicy info to share I’m all ears 👍 !!
Not sure, I must say I let Caddy do all the certificate work for me. I know Caddy also creates an ACME CA signed certificate, perhaps even if you connect locally it’s using that somehow instead of the self-signed one it creates?
Regardless, not much juicy info on my end. I used Caddy and “It just works™”. Might be worth a shot for you too.