Plugin can't communicate with TotalMix when Mullvad VPN is active

[Jocko315]

First of all .. I love this plugin so much, it's genius. I want to make extensive use of it but so far it only works when I disable my Mullvad VPN, which I don't want to do as a general principle.

I've put both streamdeck.exe and de.shells.totalmix.exe in Mullvad's "split tunnel" list so theoretically they shouldn't be affected by the VPN. TotalMixFX.exe is also in the split tunnel list.

I've put all aforementioned executables in my windows firewall whitelist as well as the default OSC ports just for good measure.

I've tried using every combination of IP addresses in ds.shells.totalmix.exe.config as well as in TotalMix's "remote controller address" within it's OSC settings.

The odd thing about this issue is that I am also using a plugin within REAPER that triggers TotalMix functions via OSC, and that is working fine, both with and without the Mullvad VPN.

My RME interface is the HDSPe MADI FX.

I've attached my log file here. My ds.shells.totalmix.exe.config is all default values. I'm very happy to do any testing or under the hood work you'd like. I really appreciate your time.

pluginlog.log

[shells-dw]

Thanks buddy.

Hm, looks like your VPN software interferes with the local addresses so the plugin cannot use them as usual. I don't know your VPN software, so maybe look for something that excludes local traffic, stop it messing with local traffic or see if there's an option to block all traffic that's not covered by a policy or something like that and disable that. This tool probably does weird stuff to your machine's networking as these VPN Tools tend to.

Other than that I cooked up a quick possible way around that, but if that doesn't work, I'm frankly not really into spending time
debugging some 3rd party VPN software.
de.shells.totalmix.streamDeckPlugin.zip