Ring a bell when openvpn says "Initialiazation sequence completed"

How can I ring a bell when openvpn says
"Initialization sequence completed"?
https://s7.postimg.org/wmho9m0cr/vpn1.gif

Is there a way to use Windows "event triggers" to automatically ring a bell
when the VPN network is established?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-event-trigger
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/...in-windows-10/

Roy Tremblay wrote in
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How can I ring a bell when openvpn says
"Initialization sequence completed"?
https://s7.postimg.org/wmho9m0cr/vpn1.gif

Is there a way to use Windows "event triggers" to automatically ring a
bell when the VPN network is established?

OpenVPN should have a place in the settings to allow you to specify what
sound to make when certain events occur. You should be able to specify any
MP3 file for the sound desired.

I use VyperVPN, and for the connect and disconnect events I stole the
'Welcome' and 'Goodbye' sounds from AOL.

Since you are users, please help me understand.

What is the advantage of VPN (say Vyprvpn) over a Tor Browser ?

Does VyprVPN encrypt from the laptop immediately before hitting the WIFi
transmitter in the laptop ?
If so, then there is some installed software on the laptop that encrypts
as part of VyprVPN or an add on or ?

How much slower overall is using a VPN.

Thank you !

Tim actually wrote:

OpenVPN should have a place in the settings to allow you to specify what
sound to make when certain events occur. You should be able to specify any
MP3 file for the sound desired.

I use VyperVPN, and for the connect and disconnect events I stole the
'Welcome' and 'Goodbye' sounds from AOL.

Thanks for the suggestion that there must be a command inside of the
OpenVPN options which can ring a bell.

I found these two promising OpenVPN Daemon options.
--up script (a batch file)
--route-up (a batch file)

Which may need this option if a delay is required.
--route-delay to delay for some time if required (a batch file)

So now I think all I need is a batch file that rings a bell to test it out.

Roy Tremblay actually wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion that there must be a command inside of the
OpenVPN options which can ring a bell.

I found these two promising OpenVPN Daemon options.
--up script (a batch file)
--route-up (a batch file)

Which may need this option if a delay is required.
--route-delay to delay for some time if required (a batch file)

So now I think all I need is a batch file that rings a bell to test it out.

I found the openvpn documentation for those commands here.
https://community.openvpn.net/openvp...envpn24ManPage

Apparently the specified "--up" script is called after the TUN/TAP device
is opened.
http://i.cubeupload.com/dqsc7k.gif

The "--route-up" script seems to run "after connection authentication".
http://i.cubeupload.com/5d4bwx.gif

The "--route-up" is subject to the "--route-delay" which is a bit more
complex because it also seems to affect added routes.
http://i.cubeupload.com/IYcWYA.gif

It seems to me the best one to test out first will be the "--route-up"
which runs pretty late in the game.

Now I need to find a windows script to ring a bell.

Roy Tremblay actually wrote:

Now I need to find a windows script to ring a bell.

I found a good Windows 10 device-connect sound by going to the Control
Panel and then to Sound and then to Sounds Windows Device Connect and
then to Test.

When I hit Browse it brought me to C:\Windows\Media\ which has a ton of
sounds, so I arbitrarily picked one named "Windows Ding.wav" at
"C:\Windows\Media\Sonata\Windows Ding.wav".

In a batch file, this works but the batch file & MPC remain up:
@echo off
"C:\Windows\Media\Sonata\Windows Ding.wav"
exit

This also leaves a command window up and the MPC running:
@echo off
cmd.exe /K "C:\Windows\Media\Sonata\Windows Ding.wav"
exit

This couldn't find the sndrec32 app:
@echo off
sndrec32.exe /embedding /play /close "C:\Windows\Media\Sonata\Windows Ding.wav"
exit

This didn't work for the same reason:
@START /min C:\WINDOWS\System32\sndrec32.exe /play /close "C:\Windows\Media\Sonata\Windows Ding.wav"

Same thing happened with SoundRecorder.exe instead of "sndrec32.exe".

Googling, apparently sound recorder was replaced by voice recorder which is
an addon app:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stor...r/9wzdncrfhwkn

But that app is really for RECORDING sound and not for playing it per se.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...corder-app-faq

So what do you use to play from the command line a wav file on Windows 10?

Roy Tremblay actually wrote:

So what do you use to play from the command line a wav file on Windows 10?

I finally found a batch example to play a sound and then disappear.
https://superuser.com/questions/1019...command#528541

This works inside a batch file (but it pops up a window).
powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Windows\Media\tada.wav").Play(); Start-Sleep -s 5; Exit;

I'm having trouble getting that to work inside the openvpn config file
though. So I'm working on it.

Meanwhile, if you have a better way to play a sound in Windows 10 without
having to pop up anything, let me know please.

Roy Tremblay actually wrote:

Meanwhile, if you have a better way to play a sound in Windows 10 without
having to pop up anything, let me know please.

I found out that OpenVPN will automatically run a batch file if it's put in
the same directory as the ovpn config file and if the batch file has the
same name as the config plus "_up", but it still didn't work.

C:\vpn\config.ovpn
C:\vpn\config_up.ovpn

Where config_up.ovpn is this two-line file:
@echo off
powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Windows\Media\notify.wav").PlaySync();

Each file works fine on its own, but there's no bell yet when used
together.

Roy Tremblay actually wrote:

Each file works fine on its own, but there's no bell yet when used
together.

Same lack of bell occurred when I tried adding these commands to the
openvpn config file, where bell.bat is this two-line file:

@echo off
powershell -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer "C:\Windows\Media\notify.wav").PlaySync();

up C:\vpn\bell.bat
or
route-up C:\vpn\bell.bat

So, something isn't working as documented.
I'll probably give up because this is too much work just to ring a bell on
Windows.

Roy Tremblay wrote:

I found out that OpenVPN will automatically run a batch file if it's put in
the same directory as the ovpn config file and if the batch file has the
same name as the config plus "_up", but it still didn't work.

C:\vpn\config.ovpn
C:\vpn\config_up.ovpn

I've not checked the doc, but wouldn't that be more likely to be

C:\vpn\config_up.cmd

Roy Tremblay wrote in
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Roy Tremblay actually wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion that there must be a command inside of the
OpenVPN options which can ring a bell.


Now I need to find a windows script to ring a bell.

Do a Google search for bell.wmv or gong.wmv, etc. I found the files I
mentioned by searching for AOL sounds.

[I used to help a friend out with thier Macintosh back when PCs were just
getting started (late 90s). Just for grins I replaced the error chime with
a clip of Poo saying "Oh, bother!" Luckily, they thought it was as humorous
as I did.]