Connect Tunnelblick to VPN automatically after wake up
Need: Make sure that VPN is always running except when at work.
Partial solution: Make sure VPN is always running with "connect when computer starts" and using an AppleScript to connect after waking up from sleep. Disconnect manually when at work.
Future: Check the current location (wifi name? IP?) and do not connect when at work.
Select "When computer starts" for the VPN config option "Connect".
Create the AppleScript
We will use sleepwatcher, install it f.ex. via brew:
And create a launch agent to start it with the wake script, based on the example provided by brew when installing (
Start the launch agent:
Now make your computer sleep, wake it up and see if you get the notification (click on the notification icon if it doesn't show up) and if VPN starts.
Troubleshooting - run the wake.sh manually from the command line (provided that you chmod +x it first).
Partial solution: Make sure VPN is always running with "connect when computer starts" and using an AppleScript to connect after waking up from sleep. Disconnect manually when at work.
Future: Check the current location (wifi name? IP?) and do not connect when at work.
Tunnelblick config
Select "When computer starts" for the VPN config option "Connect".
(Re)Connect to VPN after wake up from sleep
Wake-up script
Create the AppleScript
~/wake.sh to connect VPN and display a notification about it (OS X 10.9+):
#!/usr/bin/osascript
# Start Tunnelblick VPN after wakeup (run via sleepwatcher)
# See /Users/me/Library/LaunchAgents/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility.plist
tell application "Tunnelblick"
connect "MY_VPN"
## Uncomment v to wait until the connection is establieshed:
# get state of first configuration where name = "MY_VPN"
# repeat until result = "CONNECTED"
# delay 1
# get state of first configuration where name = "MY_VPN"
# end repeat
end tell
display notification "(See ~/wake.sh)" with title "Tunneblick connecting..."
Running the wake-up script
We will use sleepwatcher, install it f.ex. via brew:
brew install sleepwatcherAnd create a launch agent to start it with the wake script, based on the example provided by brew when installing (
/usr/local/Cellar/sleepwatcher/2.2/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher-20compatibility-localuser.plist, renamed and modified) - ~/Library/LaunchAgents/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher.plist:
...
<!--string>-s ~/.sleep</string-->
<string>-w ~/wake.sh</string>
Testing it
Start the launch agent:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/de.bernhard-baehr.sleepwatcher.plistNow make your computer sleep, wake it up and see if you get the notification (click on the notification icon if it doesn't show up) and if VPN starts.
Troubleshooting - run the wake.sh manually from the command line (provided that you chmod +x it first).