Detect VPN connection

[Eric Kruis]

Is it possible to detect an active VPN connection with Tasker?

[CoolRaoul]

Is it possible to detect an active VPN connection with Tasker?

It depends.

If you just want *inside a task* to check if VPN is on or not you may use the following method (replace "flash" commands by you own code)

Vpn
 A1: Run Shell [ Command:ifconfig Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:Off Store Output In:%out Store Errors In: Store Result In: Continue Task After Error:On ]
 A2: If [ %out ~R (?m)^(ppp|tun) ]
 A3: Flash [ Text:VPN is on Long:On ]
 A4: Else
 A5: Flash [ Text:VPN is off Long:On ]
 A6: End If
 

But if you want to trigger a profile as soon as VPN is on, I don't have an working solution (unless using a polling approach which would be a very bad thing in term of performance and ressource usage)

[Eric Kruis]

I wanted to check inside a task. Your solution works. Thanks a lot!

[G M]

I was NOT able to make a proper query with this verification however since on VPN at appears "ppp0" I simple checked a match for this when VPN is on foreither wifi and gsm. Hope it helps.. or that I0m not incorrect.

Vpn
 A1: Run Shell [ Command:ifconfig Timeout (Seconds):0 Use Root:Off Store Output In:%out Store Errors In: Store Result In: Continue Task After Error:On ]

 
 A2: If [ %out ~ *,P-t-P,* ]

 A3: Flash [ Text:VPN is on Long:On ] 
 A4: Else 
 A5: Flash [ Text:VPN is off Long:On ] 
 A6: End If 

On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 1:24:15 PM UTC+4, Eric Kruis wrote:

I wanted to check inside a task. Your solution works. Thanks a lot!

[SimonBG]

And that didn't work for me either (I am not a regex master so I don't quite understand it). For me, just *If [ %out ~ *ppp0* ]* is what worked. Just adding as info for future newbies.

[Pent]

Just FYI, next version of Tasker has a state for this.

Pent