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Since the OpenVPN app doesn't yet natively allow you to automatically connect when leaving home network, I've found a work-around through which you can remain connected to the VPN even when at home - no, there's no benefit to this other than that you don't have to manually reconnect.

I saw a forum recommendation to change the local subnet to something in the 10.0.0.0/8 range. By itself, this didn't allow the connection to stay open and created a new problem that I couldn't connect to my pi-hole when connected to the VPN. What did work was changing the TUN mode service port to TCP port 443. Now, for whatever reason, I can stay connected to my VPN all the time and can also access the pi-hole remotely.

Just thought I'd share this since it's taken me days to work out and I wasnt able to find this solution anywhere.

So you have no idea what you did or why it works ..

This belongs in Examples as "a bad example" ..

This works on your network, doesn't mean it works for other networks.

Still, moved to examples

It will work anywhere ... regardless.

And it would work anyway without using TCP.

This is a solution to a problem that does not exist.