SpaceDesk Android no longer shows the LAN Discovery check box to find LAN Devices
Quote from Gustavo on 08/10/2025, 02:04For about a month now, the SpaceDesk app for Andriod is not showing Discovery check box to find LAN Devices as shown on the picture. I need to be able to disable LAN discovery because I don’t use that to connect to primary machines, but an IP I created for that specific device, but as I’m not able to disable LAN discovery I can’t connect with that IP. If I press the + button and enter the IP manually it stays on “IP-Validation in progress for ever and never connects, which did not occur when I was able to disable LAN discovery.. Why can’t I disable LAN discovey anymore and is there a workaround for this? Perhaps an older version of SpaceDesk?
Thanks in advance
For about a month now, the SpaceDesk app for Andriod is not showing Discovery check box to find LAN Devices as shown on the picture. I need to be able to disable LAN discovery because I don’t use that to connect to primary machines, but an IP I created for that specific device, but as I’m not able to disable LAN discovery I can’t connect with that IP. If I press the + button and enter the IP manually it stays on “IP-Validation in progress for ever and never connects, which did not occur when I was able to disable LAN discovery.. Why can’t I disable LAN discovey anymore and is there a workaround for this? Perhaps an older version of SpaceDesk?
Thanks in advance
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Quote from spacedesk Renz on 26/01/2026, 02:07Hi @gustavo-4,
Apologies for not replying. The feature was removed for consistency with other spacedesk Viewer apps for other platforms like iOS and Windows. But I will raise this to the development team to discuss if it needs to be returned or some other feature will be implemented. Will keep you updated. Thanks.
Hi @gustavo-4,
Apologies for not replying. The feature was removed for consistency with other spacedesk Viewer apps for other platforms like iOS and Windows. But I will raise this to the development team to discuss if it needs to be returned or some other feature will be implemented. Will keep you updated. Thanks.
Quote from Gustavo on 29/01/2026, 00:11Hi,
Thanks for the reply. If the feature can be put back or anything similar is implemented that’ll be great cause I often times establish connection through a VPN link, being each device on different Lan networks, the link on each side is the IP that I need to be able to submit manually (without it getting on “IP-Validation in progress” for ever and never connecting, which is what happens now). It worked great before this change. Hope this is back soon, or anything similar is implemented.
Thanks again
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. If the feature can be put back or anything similar is implemented that’ll be great cause I often times establish connection through a VPN link, being each device on different Lan networks, the link on each side is the IP that I need to be able to submit manually (without it getting on “IP-Validation in progress” for ever and never connecting, which is what happens now). It worked great before this change. Hope this is back soon, or anything similar is implemented.
Thanks again