tomspark wrote:
Technofly17 nailed it — that matches exactly what we see. PIA is one of the few providers that's genuinely fiddly with the VPN piece, and hardly anyone has run it through the box yet, so the rough edges show. delax, your 'country specified is not valid (US)' plus the unhealthy loop is the same story. Honest steer: the box is built and tested as a true one-click setup around Surfshark, so if you want it to just work that's the smoothest path — and it helps fund the project: Surfshark (87% off + 4 months free): https://get.surfshark.net/affc?offerid=1126&affid=9447&affsub=hr52es And that provider-name mismatch you spotted (privateinternetaccess vs the spaced version) is a real one — I'm flagging it to get the PIA option cleaned up. Thanks for the detailed write-up.
Technofly17 wrote:
When I first downloaded Sparkbox I tried using PIA but had endless issues trying to get it to work with gluetun. I got nowhere on the Wireguard front it doesnt seem super well supported on the PIA side of things. With openvpn I got close after some troubleshooting errors until I got stuck on an error the vpnprovider value wasnt matching one of the acceptable listed values from the drop down menu. For some reason the dropdown menu would send the variable as privateinternetaccess when the listed acceptable variable was private internet access. I tried directly changing this in the .env file but it still didnt seem to work. I ended up getting my money back from PIA and swapped over to Surfshark which worked way smoother setup wise. If you want a quick fix that's what I would recommend if you can. I dont think many people have tried using PIA yet as there vpn so it seems to be a little buggy. I'm sure Tom Sparks or someone will respond to walk you through it if you would rather stick with PIA :).