On demand Open VPN

[johndendroid]

I'm looking to use OpenVPN on my home server or NAS and to make a secure connection from my android devices. Mostly for backup reasons. However, if I get it right, the standard OpenVPN apps create a connection, but leave it connected. I'm not sure what this would do to battery and bandwidth usages, but it sounds bad that my VPN is connected 24/7 while I only needed one time a day (to perform the backup).

So, is there a way to have my Open VPN connection connected on demand? And then terminated after a given time of inactivitiy? I already read that there is such function on iOS, but I did not yet came across something like this for android.

 

[girolez]

Hi

I use the OpenVPN Connect app which, once connected, reconnects automatically if the wifi is disconnected and reconnected (without stopping the openVPN app) . I use juice defender to turn wifi on when I open an app that needs it (and off again afterwards).

Hope this helps - its the only app I have found that does this.

Roger