Manage NordVPN recommended servers through addons API page

[Jack Yaz]

Also looking great! There's even logic to know which countries have a single location or multiple cities to choose from!

A question @Jack Yaz ... what does "managed" mean?

i couldn't think of a better word. when updating from the webui, i needed the script to fire off updates for any changes that had been made. i needed a way to indicate to the script to only update clients you cared about. otherwise, whatever was left select in the ui (like protocol and type) for unwanted clients (in my case, i use 1 and 2 for nord, 3-5 are other providers) would override the settings. managed sounded like a nice fit for the manager theme of the script

 

[kid63]

City prompting done too. Currently all the menus do is store the selected country and city name and ids in the config file.

Tomorrow I'll work on having the "get recommended" taking into account chosen country and city.

Tested the city-part too, excellent work Jack, thank you.

 

[Jack Yaz]

Country specification ready for testing: https://github.com/jackyaz/nvpnmgr/commit/d473cdc63e288ce5ebfa8183b3cb5e832fa0f896

Next needs the city bit which is a bit more complex than pulling off a single server. I think we should get the top 10 by load, and then try to filter by the chosen city?

 

[kid63]

Hello Jack, while testing couldn't recognize any issue, works as it should!

Yep, TopTen is a good approach i think, you mean the fastest 10 or just 10? Ah, nevermind, reading exactly is not that easy sometimes.
Question answered.

But I've got another one, what are your timings for updating, mine are 0,12. Or is once a day enough, what do you think?

cu

 

[Chris0815]

Country specification ready for testing: https://github.com/jackyaz/nvpnmgr/commit/d473cdc63e288ce5ebfa8183b3cb5e832fa0f896

Finally I was able to test the new development version - was not aware how to get your updated script...
Here it works perfectly fine to choose country and city! It was never so easy to update a new VPN-server! Amazing how fast new ideas are implemented in this script! Thank you again!

 

[diyguy]

Late to the party here, will this preserve client bypass settings and DNS settings in the configurations ? Can you specify a favorite server as well ?

 

[Jack Yaz]

Late to the party here, will this preserve client bypass settings and DNS settings in the configurations ? Can you specify a favorite server as well ?

policy routing is untouched, i think if the client is unconfigured, dns and killswitch are set, but they're untouched on subsequent updates (i.e. if you change it after configuring the client your changes will be kept).

no to favourite server (for now?), we're focussing on country/city selection for preferring servers

 

[Jack Yaz]

Preferred city is now used. API query pulls all recommended servers for a country (automatically sorted by load afaict) and then filters for your chosen city, and uses the first one found. if no servers available for your city, the city filter is removed

https://github.com/jackyaz/nvpnmgr/commit/2bf0a7d9058b888e785f56309d3504d2d3668b17

 

[kid63]

Hi Jack, again without issues for me so far and thx for improving the jq-part.

 

[Marin]

Preferred city is now used. API query pulls all recommended servers for a country (automatically sorted by load afaict) and then filters for your chosen city, and uses the first one found. if no servers available for your city, the city filter is removed

https://github.com/jackyaz/nvpnmgr/commit/2bf0a7d9058b888e785f56309d3504d2d3668b17

How do we test this from the link?


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[Jack Yaz]

How do we test this from the link?


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If you're already on the develop branch, just update

 

[Marin]

How do we test this from the link?


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Use nano and change from “master” to “develop” under /jffs/scripts/nvpnmgr?


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[Marin]

If you're already on the develop branch, just update

Got ya! Thank you!


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[Marin]

Got ya! Thank you!


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Works great!

Any plans to show country and city selections in WebUI?

Great work! Thank you so much!


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[Marin]

Works great!

Any plans to show country and city selections in WebUI?

Great work! Thank you so much!


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Happened to check the NordVPN app and my selected server from the NVPNMGR was the second from the top server form their list that had the least load and closest to me!


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[g1dtf]

How do I move from the master to develop branch so I can update to the latest test version.

 

[QuikSilver]

How do I move from the master to develop branch so I can update to the latest test version.

Use nano and change from “master” to “develop” under /jffs/scripts/nvpnmgr?


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Will add that if this seems confusing it may be worth holding off under it has been tested by more experienced users.

 

[kid63]

How do I move from the master to develop branch so I can update to the latest test version.

Just 'nvpnmgr develop' without quotes.

 

[g1dtf]

Just 'nvpnmgr develop' without quotes.

Thanks that did the trick.

 

[h0me5k1n]

This is working brilliantly! I've never changed my VPN server so often even just for testing... sooo easy!

Seems like it's working for @Marin too (who made the original request around the capability to choose a city)!

I have one final suggestion/request @Jack Yaz... can we have an "update now" button on the page for each VPN server that is being "managed". Then we could switch on demand as well as through a schedule?