How to setup NordVPN or OpenVPN on an Amazon Fire TV Stick

cleared the app cache and data. launched it again and loaded the file again. again it succeeded but IP address stays the same

After I loaded the config file and changed the settings in Open VPN it has worked for me. I can try to post my Open VPN settings tomorrow if that will help.

Thanks. The only thing I changed was the log in at boot. Did you change more?

I may have, I’m not sure!

what’s funny is I called NordVPN for support on this earlier. They sent me some geek wizzard link. Didn’t have any advice beyond that. You’d think they’d figure this out to increase their user base, especially with native apps that can be downloaded for easy VPN install on firestick like IPVanish

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Yeah I looked and looked for info on how to do this and didn’t really find anything but enough to hack it together myself like you did. Most of what I saw was telling you to go buy some expensive router. I’ve never heard of IPVanish before.

IPVanish can be downloaded directly from google store on the firestick and you’re good to go. you don’t get as much security around the VPN as NordVPN. that’s the trade off. It’s a VPN but that’s it. Nord gives extra protections

I downloaded an app named “Downloader” from the firestick, It allows you to access websites directly. I entered the web address http//www.whatismyv6.com. It will display the IPv4 address. This was different than my original pre-VPN IP address (even though my Firestick still shows that web address). I Turned off the firestick and connected again. The IPv4 address changed again and was also different than the pre-vpn IP address shown to me on the Firestick. I contacted NordVPN support and they said that this means that I am connected to their servers. I’m still not sure why the Firestick is showing the original IP address. It could be a IPv6 address. NordVPN uses just IPv4.

The chat agent told me If you are receiving another IP address via your browser that means that all of your connection is being rerouted through that IP. Therefore you have nothing to worry about.

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There were a couple other people reporting a similar issue a few weeks ago in this thread, that their IP asn’t changing, hopefully this helps people, thanks for sharing…

On another note, do you know of any VPN services that offer the Open VPN Configuration files like Nord does?

I supsect that many of the popular ones should be ok with Open VPN. I called ExpressVPN support before buying NordVPN and they told me that it could be sideloaded to firestick

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There’s probably a way you could just use your PC, for instance someone above said you could FTP into your Firestick, if that’s possible you could probably load the VPN software onto your Firestick that way. I had to use my android phone to load OpenVPN on to mine.

Thanks CGlov, if you read through the thread I think someone else had the same problem, but when they’d test it, it showed the NordVPN IP even though the firestick was still showing their real IP.

Hi Gabby, not sure how to solve your problem of moving it to you the you already have an account option, no problems with this when I did it.

To open up OpenVPN though you can go to Settings - Apps - Manage Installed Applications I believe it is…

I removed your email address from your post otherwise you’d probably end up with a ton of spam.

I use the OpenVPN for Android app on mine, check out the instructions at the beginning of this post. I didn’t have any luck using the NordVPN app but you can use your Nord account with the OpenVPN app…

Just a heads up to the board, Nord deletes old servers periodically so make sure you are actually connecting. You may have to sideload a new config file if you are not connecting.

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I used dropbox to move the config file from my PC to the ES Explorer in firestick. in ES Explorer, go to Cloud, and select droppox. Sign in and copy the file from there to Local/Downloads. Then it’s available for you to connect to via OpenVPN

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I googled the “no process” error message and couldn’t find anything on it, having never experienced this I have no idea but maybe someone else will.

Also is the No Process error coming from the Firestick or could it possibly be coming from your TV itself, is there something like a serial # for the error message?

So today I got billed by Nord for another year’s service even though I had a few years worth of credits from the OP I made here… so I go login to their site and it has been revamped and surprise my credits were nowhere to be found… what a ripoff… this will be my last year with NordVPN…

Wot ain’t a ripoff these days

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I emailed them, will post here if they make it right or not… You know in my experience porn companies are a lot more honest, give you a way better cut and are more likely to pay up than these mainstream companies.