Alfred Network Workflow

Alfred workflow that can show and change your network settings: Wi-Fi, Ethernet, VPN, DNS, etc.

This is a collection of the functionalities of already existing network-oriented workflows that I found half-baked or stalled. Improved on performance, usability and details.

Usage

• Type wifi to show Wi-Fi info and enable/disable.
• Type eth to show ethernet info (if connected).
• Type wifilist to scan for Wi-Fi hotspots.
• Type vpn to list configured VPNs and connect.
• Type dns to list and change DNS settings.

Requires Alfred 3 and Powerpack for installing this extension. Might behave differently on macOS versions older than 10.7 Lion. This workflow is primarily implemented in Bash with a little help from AppleScript.

Tests

bats is used for automatic testing of Bash functionality. Install with brew install bats using brew.

Run tests: bats tests

To Do

• [x] Basic functionality
• [x] Unit tests
• [x] Mark saved networks with a star
• [x] Adjust Wi-Fi icon according to strength
• [x] Ethernet support
• [x] VPN list
• [x] Travis CI build
• [x] DNS switcher using networksetup -setdnsservers
• [ ] Connect WiFi AP using AppleScript
• [ ] Sort APs (improve!)
• [ ] Filter APs on-the-fly, but only scan once
• [ ] Use optional parameters for unit tests
• [ ] Bluetooth list

Credits

Contributions, bug reports and feature requests are very welcome.

    - Martin