VPNMON VPNMON-R3 v1.4.1 -Jul 2, 2025- Monitor WAN/Dual-WAN/OpenVPN Health & Reset Multiple OpenVPN Connections (Available in AMTM!) Wireguard v1.5.10 Beta!

[CaptainSTX]

So that's a problem I'm still trying to work out. With OVPN, VPNMON actually starts those up, so I can get an accurate start time. WG, on the other hand, starts when the router reboots. The only time you get a more accurate start time is if you reset the WG connection within VPNMON, then I can start its own timer.

Going to cautiously say that we can call this a "beta" now... so opening it up to those who want to experiment with something that's pretty darn close to production now.

What's new?
v1.5.03b - (TBA)
- PATCH: Fixed the numbering for the WG slots to reflect 6-0 to provide standardization across the script when referring to the use of these slots. Thanks to @CaptainSTX!
- PATCH: Fixed the Skynet import logic and some of the on screen/log language to reflect "WG" terms instead of "VPN".
- PATCH: Fixed the WG Client Slot Server List Maintenance page to accurately display the first value (Connection Description) in a comma-separated list.
- PATCH: Clarified the "Number of Available OVPN/WG Client Slots" menu item under the config, to bring more understanding that (2) is strictly for older routers who can only have a max of 2 OVPN client slots at any given time, but also don't have any native WG capability without the help of 3rd party scripts. The (5) option provides capabilities for 5 x OVPN and 5 x WG client slots, as available on most (if not all) newer routers running the later versions of the Merlin FW.

Download Link:

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/VPNMON-R3/develop/vpnmon-r3.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh"

Significant Screenshots:

Our main house network is now using WG Slot 2 full-time for all their needs, using one of 2203 randomized NordVPN WG server connections, while VPN slot 5 still provides an Unbound DNS VPN exit giving our internal WG clients some DNS privacy. All is working well!

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Encountered a glitch with 1.5.05b yesterday. Open VPN Client went down then reset as VPN client was active when I finally checked. The problem was that VPMON sent notification that client was down once a minute for six+ hours. I was out for most of the day so wasn't aware it was happening until I opened my inbox and found hundreds of notifications. I disabled notifications until I could sort through my inbox. I have enabled notifications again to see if the problem happens again. Is there any way you could include a limit on how many notifications VPMON can send?

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Encountered a glitch with 1.5.05b yesterday. Open VPN Client went down then reset as VPN client was active when I finally checked. The problem was that VPMON sent notification that client was down once a minute for six+ hours. I was out for most of the day so wasn't aware it was happening until I opened my inbox and found hundreds of notifications. I disabled notifications until I could sort through my inbox. I have enabled notifications again to see if the problem happens again. Is there any way you could include a limit on how many notifications VPMON can send?

I can look into setting a limitation. Yeah, you definitely don't want something crazy like that. Did you figure out what went wrong with your router? Not behavior I have ever encountered before. It's looking at the VPN slot status code, and if it's 0 or 1 or something other than 2 (connected), then it will keep try to reset it until it comes back with a 2.

 

[CaptainSTX]

wgI can look into setting a limitation. Yeah, you definitely don't want something crazy like that. Did you figure out what went wrong with your router? Not behavior I have ever encountered before. It's looking at the VPN slot status code, and if it's 0 or 1 or something other than 2 (connected), then it will keep try to reset it until it comes back with a 2.

As far as I could tell Open VPN 1 did reset and was functioning, but the emails kept coming. Turned the notification back on today and Open VPN 1 went down but today I only got a single email. I will leave the Open VPN client running at least until you release the final production version. After the release I will probably stop using Open VPN clients and instead just use WG clients as they are more stable and three to four times faster.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

As far as I could tell Open VPN 1 did reset and was functioning, but the emails kept coming. Turned the notification back on today and Open VPN 1 went down but today I only got a single email. I will leave the Open VPN client running at least until you release the final production version. After the release I will probably stop using Open VPN clients and instead just use WG clients as they are more stable and three to four times faster.

Yeah, the only reason I'm still running OVPN at the moment is for Unbound. Totally agree with you on the WG side of things!

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Is there any way you could include a limit on how many notifications VPMON can send?

What kind of limit would you think is acceptable? Is it staying under a certain number of messages per minute or per hour? How did you envision this?

 

[CaptainSTX]

What kind of limit would you think is acceptable? Is it staying under a certain number of messages per minute or per hour? How did you envision this?

One per hour would be sufficient for most people. Unless other users experience a glitch like I had VPMON does a good job and restarts or changes the server fairly quickly so probably no need for additional emails. The limit is just a safety measure to try and prevent a flood of emails if something fails.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

One per hour would be sufficient for most people. Unless other users experience a glitch like I had VPMON does a good job and restarts or changes the server fairly quickly so probably no need for additional emails. The limit is just a safety measure to try and prevent a flood of emails if something fails.

Happy birthday to you, @CaptainSTX ... here's your birthday present

What's new!
v1.5.09 beta - (TBA)
- PATCH: Implemented a formal email rate limiter function that controls a user-configurable allowed number of emails to be sent per hour. This option is configured under AMTM Email Not(i)fications, and allows you to choose a number between 1 and 9999, with 0 having this function disabled. When email events fire off, you will see a system message on the bottom of your screen indicating how many emails have been sent thusfar this past hour, and whether any rate limiting is in effect. An indicator is displayed when the Operations Menu is displayed on the very top-right. "RL" (red) = disabled, and "RL:<number of emails>/h" (green) shows the number of emails allowed per hour.

Download link:

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/VPNMON-R3/develop/vpnmon-r3.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh"

Significant Screenshots:

Showing the rate limiting functionality configurable under the AMTM Email Notifications Menu:

Rate limiting indicator on the very top-right of the screen:

 

[Viktor Jaep]

OK... I keep swearing this is the last beta before I release this thing. But here's one last iteration!

What's new:
v1.5.10b - (TBA)
- PATCH: Decided to make the expanded Unbound DNS Resolver IP a configurable option under the config menu to help save on screen realestate. Disabling (default) will just show an abbreviated color-coded indicator, while Enabling will show the full DNS Resolver IP. @New2This - FYI!

Download link:

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/VPNMON-R3/develop/vpnmon-r3.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh"

Significant Screenshots:

Option #5 gives you the ability to enable/disable the expanded Unbound DNS Resolver IP info on-screen (for those who have Unbound over VPN enabled)

Here's it own dedicated menu item.

Enjoy!

 

[New2This]

Option #5 gives you the ability to enable/disable the expanded Unbound DNS Resolver IP info on-screen (for those who have Unbound over VPN enabled)

Everyone should be using it... Thanks for the update downloading now

Edit: When hitting "5" the screen just flashes and I'm still sitting on the configure page, when trying let say 3 I can go ahead and change the number and go back, but I still cannot do anything to "enabled" in 5 @Viktor Jaep

 

[CaptainSTX]

Happy birthday to you, @CaptainSTX ... here's your birthday present

What's new!
v1.5.09 beta - (TBA)
- PATCH: Implemented a formal email rate limiter function that controls a user-configurable allowed number of emails to be sent per hour. This option is configured under AMTM Email Not(i)fications, and allows you to choose a number between 1 and 9999, with 0 having this function disabled. When email events fire off, you will see a system message on the bottom of your screen indicating how many emails have been sent thusfar this past hour, and whether any rate limiting is in effect. An indicator is displayed when the Operations Menu is displayed on the very top-right. "RL" (red) = disabled, and "RL:<number of emails>/h" (green) shows the number of emails allowed per hour.

Download link:

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/VPNMON-R3/develop/vpnmon-r3.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh"

Significant Screenshots:

Showing the rate limiting functionality configurable under the AMTM Email Notifications Menu:

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Rate limiting indicator on the very top-right of the screen:

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Very nice thank you. I owe you a piece of cake and a round of drinks.

One thing I noticed after going to the latest Beta as the exit city for both Open & WG clients are now all displayed as undetermined. Tried starting and stopping one WG client both in VPMON and router, monitoring slot and not monitoring it then monitoring again and haven't been able to force VPMON to display the exit cities again.

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Very nice thank you. I owe you a piece of cake and a round of drinks.

One thing I noticed after going to the latest Beta as the exit city for both Open & WG clients are now all displayed as undetermined. Tried starting and stopping one WG client both in VPMON and router, monitoring slot and not monitoring it then monitoring again and haven't been able to force VPMON to display the exit cities again.

You might be blocking the API, or it might be down?

Try this:

curl http://ip-api.com

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Option #5 gives you the ability to enable/disable the expanded Unbound DNS Resolver IP info on-screen (for those who have Unbound over VPN enabled)

Everyone should be using it... Thanks for the update downloading now

Edit: When hitting "5" the screen just flashes and I'm still sitting on the configure page, when trying let say 3 I can go ahead and change the number and go back, but I still cannot do anything to "enabled" in 5 @Viktor Jaep

So you have unbound over VPN enabled, but when you hit 5, it just flashes and doesn't let you into the config option?

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Option #5 gives you the ability to enable/disable the expanded Unbound DNS Resolver IP info on-screen (for those who have Unbound over VPN enabled)

Everyone should be using it... Thanks for the update downloading now

Edit: When hitting "5" the screen just flashes and I'm still sitting on the configure page, when trying let say 3 I can go ahead and change the number and go back, but I still cannot do anything to "enabled" in 5 @Viktor Jaep

Dumb mistake on my end, @New2This... please download again, and try again. Should work this time.

curl --retry 3 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ViktorJp/VPNMON-R3/develop/vpnmon-r3.sh" -o "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh" && chmod 755 "/jffs/scripts/vpnmon-r3.sh"

 

[New2This]

Thanks I'll redownload again.... Edit: Thank you its working now

Mine says that also undetermined.
curl: (28) Failed to connect to ip-api.com port 80 after 3121 ms: Couldn't connect to server

 

[Viktor Jaep]

Thanks I'll redownload again.... Edit: Thank you its working now

Mine says that also undetermined.
curl: (28) Failed to connect to ip-api.com port 80 after 3121 ms: Couldn't connect to server

@New2This @CaptainSTX -- You guys need to add ip-api.com to your Skynet whitelist (4 -> 2). I just duplicated this issue on my AX88U, as it was doing the same thing. Added it to the whitelist, and tried curl [URL]http://ip-api.com[/URL] , and it worked right away.

Sounds like some blacklist sadly has picked them up.

 

[Ripshod]

@New2This @CaptainSTX -- You guys need to add ip-api.com to your Skynet whitelist (4 -> 2). I just duplicated this issue on my AX88U, as it was doing the same thing. Added it to the whitelist, and tried curl [URL]http://ip-api.com[/URL] , and it worked right away.

Sounds like some blacklist sadly has picked them up.

Yep, that works
ADDED: Using the skynet blocklist from @SomeWhereOverTheRainBow

 

[New2This]

Thank you , I have whitelisted and yes everything works now