I plan to run a VPN connection from my home router to encrypt all traffic. I will also run a VPN app on my phone for encryption when on 4g and on other wireless networks.
When my phone is connected to my home router, with VPN enabled via the app, traffic from my phone will be going through 2 VPN tunnels, and the VPN app will be running my battery down unnecessarily.
I would therefore like an app that turns off VPN automatically when connected my home wifi. Does any provider have this feature?
I don’t bother switching my VPN app off while I am at home. The connection speed drop is minimal while going through a “second VPN”, battery drain is also quite small - VPN app drains battery A LOT while there is a week 3/4G signal, on WiFi it’s OK.
Look into IFTTT. The app allows you to create rule settings like what you are looking for. I don’t know if it would work with your VPN app, however.
You could use an automation app like Tasker or MacroDroid to kill the VPN app when you connect to your WiFi at home and then to turn it back on when you disconnect from it.
I just told my VPN not to turn on for my wifi, works no problem.
No and it’s because of the android SDK. It’s really hard to tell specific wifi information. iOS has, for example, flags for unprotected wifi, but google takes advantage for their free VPN service but it’s not open to developers of other providers.
Second that.
OpenVPN drains a lot of battery on mobile (2G, 3G and even 4G) but for me is barely notable on WiFi.
Thanks. I’m aware I can probably do this with Tasker also, but it seems like a feature some provider should have implemented.
Not to turn on for any WiFi, or specifically for your home WiFi?
Which app are you using?
Cyberghost for Android. It asks which ones it should “protect”.