How do I remove all traces of sparkbox and any apps Ive installed? If it would run WITHOUT a vpn I would be happy to try it out
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tomspark wrote:
popuman's got the uninstall right — sparkbox reset --nuke --yes is the cleanest full wipe. But blondini, before you go: SparkBox doesn't actually need a VPN to run. Only the torrent/download apps force one (on purpose, to keep your downloading private) — the media server, dashboard, Pi-hole, and file storage all run with no VPN at all, and you can skip the media/VPN part entirely. Worth a try without one if that was the dealbreaker.
popuman wrote:
Here you go: Uninstalling BASH Copy sparkbox down rm -rf /opt/sparkbox rm -f /usr/local/bin/sparkbox This stops all containers and removes TomSparkBox. Docker remains installed. For a complete wipe (containers, networks, images, install dir, symlinks), use sparkbox reset --nuke --yes.
blondini wrote:
I would like to try it to get jellyfin and the whole arr stack, qbittorrent etc running, i do have a freee protonvpn but it doesnt seem to like it in the config file
tomspark wrote:
Good news, you don't have to ditch it. The reason free ProtonVPN is fighting you probably isn't the config at all, it's that Proton's free tier blocks torrent (P2P) traffic, so qBittorrent can't download through it no matter how you set it up. The simple fix is a VPN that allows P2P on every server. We use and recommend Surfshark, it drops right into SparkBox's VPN setup and in our own testing was about 16x faster than Proton for this. It's 87% off + 4 months free right now: https://get.surfshark.net/affc?offerid=1126&affid=9447&affsub=hr52es . Add that, turn on the media module, and Jellyfin, the arr stack, and qBittorrent all come up. If you'd rather stick with Proton, you'd need their paid plan (free won't torrent) — tell me the exact error and I'll walk you through it.
blondini wrote:
OK ive got surfshark and its all installed BUT nothing is downloading. sparkbox doctor looks fine, do you have any suggestions? Its running on a pi 5
tomspark wrote:
Looks like you've got the same question in your new 'Nothing downloading' post — I answered it there in detail. Short version: on a fresh setup the most common cause is that no indexers are added yet (SparkBox ships with none), so the search apps have nowhere to look and requests just sit idle. Add one in Prowlarr (it shares it with Sonarr/Radarr automatically) and things start moving. Glad you got Surfshark sorted!