pia-wg VS manual-connections

I googled and looked through this sub, but couldn't find the answer. The only post that was remotely close suggested I make my own config files with a shell script. https://github.com/triffid/pia-wg

Shenanigans

Search for split tunnel openvpn or wireguard and you can figure out how to setup the configuration file. PIA doesn't share the wireguard configuration files, but you can get those using https://github.com/triffid/pia-wg Otherwise just use the openvpn config files. And you can install OpenVPN for Android on your tv. Copy the configuration files over and connect.

Never used their linux desktop client, I wrote a shell script instead

Nope, I made my own because PIA's clients are a mess :P

Gotta make your own configs

Gotta poke their API

I wrote my own fwiw

Seems like a reasonable assumption - mine's just called pia but that's because I wrote my own Linux shell script(s) to do the things

https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connections lists several, including mine

Nope, those are here but they're clunky as heck

I don't know what to do with these PIA github files. https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connections

WireGuard is much faster for me. See here for PIA and 3rd party scripts which can be used to create WireGuard config files.

There's a separate API you need to use after the link is up

If you're running a Linux server and want to automate it, PIA's automated connection scripts are here, and this script automatically runs those scripts, grabs the forwarded port and updates the config of your favorite client, then starts it.

I'm a bit partial to doing vpn with foss protocol and clients, without gui applications at all on mac and linux. PIA provides some nice resources to that end on their foss github page.

I set up PIA on my Ubuntu Server (which does not run 24/7) using the official Manual Connections repository, however with WireGuard, the authentication token runs out for me after a few days (since it expires when my server is turned off, then it can't get a new token when it turns back on), is there any way I can prevent this? It was working perfectly before the access token expired :p

https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connections lists several, including mine

It's a bit of a pain in the butt, but I used the PIA manual connection script to generate a wireguard config file, and then I plugged that into gluetun and now it works great. Was easier than trying to config OpenVPN