[Legion79]

I've got a Pi2 running Openelec 5.0.5, and an account with Private Internet Access.

I've set up my vpn (with PIA) using the instructions here (brianhornsby.com/blog/how-to-setup-your-vpn-client), which worked flawlessly.

I'm now trying to get it to automatically connect on boot.

I've searched a number of threats and using autostart.sh seems to be the easiest way. So I created an autostart.sh file and included the following code:

#!/bin/sh
openvpn /storage/Configfiles/vpn-config/france.ovpn &
sleep 5

But it's not connecting. I expect it's got something to do with me not supplying my credentials (which are in a pass.txt file), but I can't see how to do this.

Has anyone got any advice?

Thanks,

[Legion79]

Ok. I'm an idiot. Problem solved.

2 stupid things.

1 - I should not have used "/Configfiles/" but rather "/.config/" (I assumed it was the former because that's how the directory appeared to be named).
2 - it's case sensitive, and my file is called France.ovpn not france.ovpn.

All sorted now. Nothing to see here... Move along.

(thanks)

[Guido.e]

I would like to do this as well. Could you be more specific in how to make an autostart.sh?

I already have a working vpn using the Brian addon.

[Legion79]

I followed the guide here:

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Autostart.sh

Running the command created the actual Autostart.sh file, which I could then add my own content to. I believe it needs to be created using that method as it needs to be an executable file (but I'm no expert!).

[Guido.e]

I followed the guide here:

http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php/Autostart.sh

Running the command created the actual Autostart.sh file, which I could then add my own content to. I believe it needs to be created using that method as it needs to be an executable file (but I'm no expert!).

Thank you. I'll have a look at it tonight!

[mortn]

I solved this by making the /storage/.config/autostart.sh calling conmanctl like this:
connmanctl connect vpn_domain_com_suffix_local &
(Okay, you got me: My domain is not "domain.com" and the DNS suffix is not really "suffix.local" but otherwise the line is as I have it)

The last argument is the second column in the line with your VPN connection when you run conmanctl services.