Private Internet Access Wireguard

General
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After days of messing about trying to create a wireless access point with VPN on my RPi4 I randomly came across PiFi… what a relief. It’s been HUGE for me. I don’t want a vpn on all the time, but I also don’t want to mess about with apps etc (I always forget to turn them on) so having a separate WiFi network with VPN has been ideal for me. However, I’ve used Private Internet Access (PIA) for years and years, again very light usage her and there. But I cannot for the life of me work out how to use wireguard with the PiFi setup. I have a PiFi kit arriving tomorrow, but does anyone have any idea how I can make this work?

Thanks so much

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PIA only let you download OpenVPN and not Wireguard but there’s a workaround that’s pretty easy

I’ll try and find time tonight and post a quick how-to on how to export WG Files for PIA

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Ok found it - you need to use Raspberry Pi OS / Linux:

Paste this in terminal (I tend to go line by line)

sudo apt install git python3-venv wireguard openresolv
git clone https://github.com/hsand/pia-wg.git
cd pia-wg
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Then when you want a .conf file you just run

python3 generate-config.py

It’ll ask you to pick a region and enter username/password and give you a .conf file you can upload in the app

Github here:

Annoying that they don’t just give us it in the admin panel - but it’s maybe 3 mins to install and can generate .conf that work indefinitely. Not sure why they make it harder than ovpn

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Amazing thanks so much for helping to get that setup. I’m going to use if for now but if it becomes a pain to keep doing I’ll just change providers when my sub runs out. Thanks so much again you’re a star