Quick VPN toggle or other method for dealing with VPN blocks?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi all! New OpenWrt user here.

I recently received and set up my OpenWrt One, and one of the things I configured is a Wireguard VPN on the router itself following this guide from my VPN provider (Proton). Before, I used to have installed on my devices.

Whenever I encountered some problems due to the VPN (i.e. some pages or services that detect it and block my connection until I disable the VPN), I could quickly switch off the VPN through the app or some setting on my system. However, now that I configured it on the router itself, I'm not sure how to do that anymore.

Maybe that's the tradeoff for having the VPN there, I don't know. Since I'm quite new to this, I guess my questions are:

  • What's the best method for dealing with these types of situations?
  • Is is possible to switch the VPN on/off on demand through some command or LuCI setting?
  • Or should I configure different networks, one using the VPN and the other without, or something like that?

Thanks for your help!

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You can use Policy based Routing to permanently route things you want through the wan.

But if you want a quick way to toggle vpn on and off e.g with your phone have a look at:

I use an app on my phone e.g connectbot which login with a key and executes the wireguard companion script on startup so I have more or less a one button start of the script