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How do I run my expo app using the tunnel? It worked last week but for the last 3 days, it stopped working.

Code written: expo start --tunnel

Logs received

Methods I tried:

  1. I used 3 different networks. One using public wifi, one using home wifi and lastly using 4G hotspot.

  2. Logging into expo account before running expo start --tunnel https://forums.expo.io/t/tunnel-url-not-found-failed-back-to-lan-url/14380/7

Is there any other way I can try to make the Tunnel URL to work?

EDIT: Sorry for the late update, but the solution I got is in this link! Expo forum discussion

Irvin ting sie ze
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Updating these node packages solved my problem:

expo-cli and @expo/ngrok

Ryan Le
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Dabir Rahamni
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I had the same error message, but running the command r to restart expo worked for me.

expo r --tunnel

Hope this helps you

Jose Rojas
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Your development laptop/computer needs to be on the same network as your mobile.

I connected my phone to my home wifi router and turned off 4g

Then I connected my laptop to the same wifi router

I created an account with expo and logged in by performing expo login and filling in the details

I then published by performing expo publish

I then scanned the qr code and it loaded and build the project onto my iphone

I then went into the root of the project and typed expo start --tunnel and it worked

code_capo
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First, I would like to point out that I am logged into my expo account. I also removed babel-preset-react-native, and am now using metro-react-native-babel-preset, because the former was deprecated. These might be a few things you want to try if it still doesn't work. Find instructions for Metro here.

Anyway, the thing that worked for me was downgrading to Node LTS.

IIX
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The instructions are not intuitive, so here is a fix:

  1. npm install @expo/ngrok
  2. brew install ngrok
  3. ngrok http 3000
  4. expo start --tunnel
Zorayr
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Worked when i connected my device and turned on usb tethering

Even i had the same issue . i pressed ctrl+c and then this time tried this command : "expo restart" After this, i got a message in terminal saying "tunnel ready"

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Rohit
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I solve this. Installing @expo/ ngrok the version who expo was trying to install. After that I run

expo start --tunnel

Again it works but fail again. To solve this I just need to click in tunnel connection again in expo dashboard and it works.

When I restart my computer and restart app with expo start --tunnel it works well and don't stop again.

Zorayr
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Dálcio Macuete Garcia
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If you are on a silicon chip you might need to install rosetta 2 by entering the following command into a terminal: softwareupdate --install-rosetta

Simon
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What worked for me was running this command:

sudo npm install @expo/ngrok@^4.1.0

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onwuegbuchi eric
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