vpn VPN Connection Manager

[deanishe]

VPN Connection Manager

Manage your Tunnelblick or Viscosity VPN connections from Alfred.


 
 
Usage

• vpn [<query>] — View and filter Tunnelblick/Viscosity VPN connections.
      - ↩ — Connect/disconnect selected connection.
• vpnconf [<query>] — View and edit workflow configuration.
  • Workflow Update Available! / Workflow Is up to Date — Workflow update availablity.
    • ↩ or ⇥ — Check for and install update.
  • App Name (active) — The currently selected VPN application.
  •  App Name (not installed) — Supported, but not installed, VPN application.
    •  ↩ — Go to this application's website.
  •  App Name — Installed, but unused, application.
    •  ↩ — Use this application to manage VPN connections.
  •  Online Docs — Workflow README.
    • ↩ — Open in your default browser.
  •  Help — This forum thread.
    • ↩ — Open in your default browser.
  • Report Problem — Workflow's GitHub issues.
    • ↩ — Open in your default browser.

 

If you haven't entered a query, any active VPN connections will be shown at the top of the list. Action an active connection to disconnect it.
 
If you are connected to multiple VPNs, an additional "Disconnect All" item will be shown first.
 
Download & Installation
 
Get the workflow from GitHub releases.
 

Edited October 10, 2018 by deanishe
Remove Packal link

[lid]

This is awesome, and works great. Thanks.

[deanishe]

Updated today to work properly with just one VPN and with smarter sorting (i.e. Alfred's knowledge applied) when not connected to a VPN.

[deanishe]

Updated today to stop the hanging background processes.

[schmkr]

Hi,

 

I recently manually updated your workflow by downloading the latest release from Github and opening the .workflow with Alfred. Although the workflow shows the VPN connection I have configured in Viscosity, it keeps on saying there is an update available. Hitting <enter> on that item just doesn't seem to be doing anything. Any idea on how to fix this?

[deanishe]

Screenshots are not enough to diagnose issues.

 

Please open Alfred's debugger, run vpn workflow:update, and post the debug output.

[schmkr]

Can't seem to reproduce this anymore. I had removed the settings.json file containing the version information and installed the latest version of the workflow downloaded from Github.

 

When I run into the issue again, I'll try to provide debug output!

[piggah]

[2017-12-26 00:44:29][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 1: .
00:44:29 workflow.py:2055 DEBUG    ---------- VPN Manager (3.0.1) ----------
00:44:29 workflow.py:1462 DEBUG    reading settings from /Users/nickferguson/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred.vpn.manager/settings.json
00:44:29 workflow.py:2339 DEBUG    update check not due
00:44:29 vpn.py:523 DEBUG    args : {'--all': False,
 '--help': False,
 '<name>': None,
 '<query>': u'',
 'conf': True,
 'connect': False,
 'disconnect': False,
 'list': False}
00:44:29 workflow.py:1689 DEBUG    loading cached data: /Users/nickferguson/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred-3/Workflow Data/net.deanishe.alfred.vpn.manager/__workflow_update_status.cpickle
00:44:29 workflow.py:2269 DEBUG    update_data: {u'available': False}
00:44:29 vpn.py:120 DEBUG    appinfo=AppInfo(name=u'Tunnelblick', path=u'/Applications/Tunnelblick.app', bundleid=u'net.tunnelblick.tunnelblick')
00:44:29 vpn.py:120 DEBUG    appinfo=None
00:44:29 workflow.py:2074 ERROR    'NoneType' object has no attribute 'path'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/nickferguson/Library/Application Support/Alfred 3/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.5272EA93-6E91-458E-8E16-68480B7C094B/workflow/workflow.py", line 2067, in run
    func(self)
  File "./vpn.py", line 535, in main
    return do_config(args.get('<query>'))
  File "./vpn.py", line 343, in do_config
    icon=app.info.path,
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'path'
00:44:29 workflow.py:2097 DEBUG    ---------- finished in 0.143s ----------

I'm trying to use with tunnelbrick ... I'm not knowledgeable enough to diagnose this. 

[deanishe]

@piggah Download the latest version of the workflow. The issue is fixed.

[Davide]

Hi deanishe,

 

great workflow, any chance to make such a workflow for the VPN App Shimo? 

[deanishe]

5 hours ago, Davide said:

any chance to make such a workflow for the VPN App Shimo?

 

Very unlikely. I don't have it and it's expensive.

[Davide]

I understand. For students it's free and for Tiger VPN User (now 77% new year discount period)

[deanishe]

Have you got a link for that? I have a TigerVPN account.

[deanishe]

Never mind. I've had a look, and it's not included with the account I have (a low-end, but lifetime, account from some bundle).

 

I've had a look at the app (via the demo), and it does look like it would work.

 

I'll ask the developers if they'll give me a licence for free, so I can support it in the workflow.

 

[deanishe]

Actually, you can forget it. Shimo's supposed AppleScript support is broken.

 

It throws an error if you try to get a list of its connections, so it won't work.

 

If you want Shimo to be supported by the workflow, you'll first have to get the developer(s) to fix the AppleScript support.

[Davide]

Thanks! I will contact 

[Januz]

Hi, I wanted to test your workflow, but get the error message that Viscosity is not installed. It is actually installed, but I used `brew cask` to install it (the .app resides in /Applications though). Might that be the reason your workflow doesn't recognize it?

[deanishe]

Sounds a lot like this issue. Are you sure you have the latest version of the workflow, @Januz?

 

If so, please post the log from Alfred's debugger.

[Pa7trickStar]

Just wanna say thanks! This workflow ist over the top! Great work!

[JakeS]

I lost use of this with the last macOS update which removed python2.  As much as I love this workflow, I'm not ready to re-install Python2 to keep it going. 

 

Any hope of getting it ported to 3?