for some reason the devs of stremio seem adamant about not adding a bind feature so im hoping theres an alternative of some kind that does have this feature or if theres an application that i can use to force it to not send any data if my vpn is not on.

I dont want to use a vpn with a killswitch because that impacts other applications

ideally a cross platform desktop application

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[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't use streamio, but if you use docker you can set it up a gluetun container to be the network for a streamio container. It's a fairly simple setup and it'll keep any container connected to it behind the VPN you set up.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Is there a nooby way to do this? Maybe a gui

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure about a gui but it's pretty easy with docker compose. I can shoot you over a sample of my compose files and how I have it all set up. It's just a couple files and a few commands and you should spend more time waiting for the containers to build than anything.

[–] pedantichedgehog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not an answer to your question, but how are you using stremio with a vpn?

I use stremio+realdebrid+torrentio. Realdebrid doesn't, as far as I know, work while using a vpn, but if there's a way around that I'd love to know.

[–] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

It does work with VPNs that are approved.

https://real-debrid.com/vpn

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can use a VPN client that supports split tunneling.

I believe the openvpn client does, and there's also https://tunnl.to/

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

Tunnl looks perfect but sadly its windows only