Improving Bash service to start/stop torrents by monitoring public IP

I am looking for feedback on my solution to monitor my public ip for torrenting. The public IP is checked against icanhazip. If the vpn is not active, pause all torrents. If vpn is active, then a check for any torrents that are downloading is made. If at least one is downloading then a all are started/queued, otherwise nothing is done because all torrents are paused.

#!/bin/bash

#Torrent/VPN Watch Service

while :
do
ip=$(curl -s icanhazip.com)
pchk=$(transmission-remote -tall -i | grep -a State | grep -ao Down | head -1)
if [ "$ip" = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ] ; then
	date
        echo "WARNING! The Current IP is: $ip"
        echo "Torrents are being stopped!"
	echo "Openvpn is being restarted!"
        echo
	sleep 5
        /usr/bin/transmission-remote -tall --stop > /dev/null 2>&1
        pkill -9 screen
	screen -wipe > /dev/null 2>&1
        pkill -9 openvpn
	screen -dmS openvpn /usr/sbin/openvpn /usr/local/sbin/tvw/file.ovpn
fi
if [ "$pchk" = "Down" ] ; then
	date
	echo "The Current IP is: $ip"
	echo "Torrents are active!"
	echo
	sleep 5
	/usr/bin/transmission-remote -tall --start > /dev/null 2>&1
else
	date
        echo "Current IP: $ip"
	echo "All torrents are paused."
	echo
	sleep 5
fi
done
exit