Ente Auth misleadingly says it's connected to (self-hosted) server

[wrobelda]

Description

I have noticed a while ago that my Ente Auth records on my macOS desktop are not in sync with mobile, but I brushed it off as some intermittent sync issue since the desktop app says "connected to 10.x.x.x" in the status bar.

Today I looked into it deepr and turns out that the message is misleading. First I noticed that opening 'Active Sessions' fails with "Failed to fetch active sessions", so I looked into the log file and can see:

[AuthUtil][INFO] [2025-12-29 13:40:41.526555] Requesting authentication
 [AuthenticatorService][SEVERE] [2025-12-29 13:40:41.547804] Failed to sync with remote
⤷ id: 1750ec39-fc3c-49ab-9172-cf3b46703253 
⤷ type: DioExceptionType.unknown
⤷ error: DioException [unknown]: null
Error: NSErrorClientException: Could not connect to the server. [domain=NSURLErrorDomain, code=-1004], uri=http://10.x.x.x:8080/authenticator/entity/diff?sinceTime=1746484111564774&limit=500

So not only is there no visual indication of connection issues in the app, it explicitly suggests the contrary.

Version

4.4.12

What product are you using?

Ente Auth

What platform are you using?

macOS