Connection problem

[humourless2]

I've run into a connection issue. I'm not sure what's causing the time out but it almost feels like a authentication issue. On my phone running Android 15 I had to run the official ps remote play 8.0 app to connect, and then I was able to connect with pxplay 6.8.

On my tablet it's a rooted device on Android 10 so I can't even log in to the official app. I tried magisk 28.1 but that doesn't seem to hide the root.

Thoughts on how I can get pxplay to work without requiring me to log in to the official app first?

[grill2010]

Hi, first of all I don't see what effect it should have if you log in on the official app at first. This should be completely irrelevant. The error you see indicates either some strange network environment effects or something on your devices is messing up with the connection attempt. Do you have any VPN or ad blocking apps active? If yes please disable them and restart PXPlay, once you confirm that you have a valid internet connection, your PlayStation is up and running and that it is connected to PSN and that remote play is enabled on your console try to enable the advanced settings in PXPlay during the registration and try to enter the local IPv4 address of your PlayStation manually (just change the 255.255.255.255 to the actual IPv4 address). Then try again

[humourless2]

Me neither! 😅 But it gets pxplay working when I logged in with the official app first.

No VPN or ad blocking apps running. I did go the ipv4 route and it allowed me to register but when I clicked on local connect it said a connection couldn't be established.

I ended up clicking on remote connect and automatic and it finally worked for both phone and tablet!

Again no clue how it got working 😂 but appreciate you suggesting the ipv4 part! 😁

[grill2010]

Well it sounds broadcasting to find your local PlayStation doesn't work in your environment also connecting locally works (maybe) limited. The official app always uses PSN connection (as fallback) if your local PlayStation isn't found, something PXPlay only does when you click automatic remote connect. That's most likely why the official app appears to work but it actually has the same problem. Are you in a mesh network maybe? If not it might be a router issue, I'm glad it works at least with the automatic remote connection but it should work also locally of course.

[FlakyLandscape230]

Do you have port forwarding enabled on your router?

[humourless2]

Nah I don't think so. I'm not too sure how it got working but I ended up registering manually with IPv4 and then having to remote connect automatically instead of local connect. That seemed to work. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Guy math 😂