Hi All, Total Newby to this so any help greatly appreciated. Purchased a Vero 4k after lots of reading and recommendations on many threads that this was the best plug and play and also supported box out there. My box arrived yesterday and after a easy set up and update I hit my first hurdle. I need to run Express VPN or another recommended VPN provider.Spent hours reading through the topics on here and on the net on how to do this. It has just made me more confused and especially after reading the latest update caused changes to this process. Would any kind person be able to write me down or refer me to a simple step by step process on what I have to do. Really looking forward to playing with this box and getting to understand OSMC and Linux better,
Installed the Brian Hornsby VPN addon onto a USB Thumbdrive and plugged it into the Vero4K. Found it in the zip files and kept opening it up but nothing. Reformatted the thumbdrive several times and redownloaded the zip file. Shows up on the computer when opening it up but not as much on the Vero 4K. A little lost on this, due to my computer skills? Any help greatly appreciated
Hello fzinken, Thanks for the reply. Pulling my hair out with this. Confirming that I went settings> Addons>Instal from ZIP. It shows the file, click on that and it shows more files, click on any of them and nothing. If I go out of there and look in file manager it shows a lot more in the ZIP file???
Sorry for the frustrating questions but totally lost by what Iām missing. Followed all the prompts and steps on Brianās page and guideline. Installed the zip program from his or the gift page onto the USB thumbdrive. Put thumbdrive into the Vero 4K . Opened up settings > add ons > install from Zip > clicked on thumbdrive> clicked on script.openvpn > clicked on resources> opens up images , language , lib. Can click on any of these and nothing? You say your not meant to extract the Zip just open it from Kodi? It may sound simple and yes the jokes on me but missing something simple here guys.
Thanks Sam , will try that now. What should then happen when I plug the thumb drive into the Vero 4K. Do I go into the add on browser > instal from zip file?. Currently on the OSMC skin, that doesnāt make any difference does it?
Either follow @sam_nazarko advice or if you want to make live easy connect to the Vero with ssh (see Accessing the command line - General - OSMC) and then execute wget https://github.com/brianhornsby/script.openvpn/releases/download/v3.0.0/script.openvpn-3.0.0.zip
You then choose āhome folderā after choosing āInstall from ZIPā
That link worked thank you Sam, at least now I am showing Open VPN enabled in my program add ons. I then go into configure it shows the following
Open VPN Configuration
Import Open VPN Configuration File
Delete Open VPN Configuration File
Open VPN Settings
Open VPN /user/bin/open vpn
Management IP Address. 127.0.0.1
ManagementPort. 1337
Where to now? Thanks for your invaluable assistance so far. Greatly appreciated.
I think there are some presets to let you pick most providers.
Otherwise they should have an OpenVPN file on their website for the VPN you wish to use.
How did you get your username and password into the openvpn add on? Iāve got the add on installed and Iāve downloaded the slickvpn config file. (Not sure if Iām supposed to modify that file?) and imported it. When I click run it says āAn error has occurred whilst trying to connect OpenVPN Unable to connect to OpenVPN management interface. Any ideas?
I feel like I should be modifying the config file with my username and password but not sure and donāt want to mess up the config file. There are no areas within the OpenVPN add on to add any credentials.
Hello Connect, Did you have a win with your VPN settings? The way I had success was after installing the Brian Hornsby Zip File for open VPN I then put on the Zomboided Addon and found Express VPN under them. Enter your username and password as directed. Works great. Sorry about the delay. Not on here often enough but such a great helpful forum. Good luck
