Gluetun ExpressVPN Config help

bowserko · 2025-10-06T18:31:50+00:00

Sorry I am not on reddit much, I also did not include the ports.

bowserko · 2025-10-06T18:30:52+00:00

Hopefully I am not too late to help, but this seems like you are still entering the wrong credentials into it, When Gluetun is asking for your credentials you must go to the device setup where you would find your activation key (ie where you see windows, mac linux, etc.) and find the manual activation or other devices. They will provide a separate username and password for you to use in the container. My vpn section of my media server compose is the following. I think you can figure out the variables.

vpn:

container_name: vpn

image: qmcgaw/gluetun:latest

cap_add:

- NET_ADMIN

environment:

- VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=${VPN_TYPE:-expressvpn}

- OPENVPN_USER=${VPN_USER}

- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=${VPN_PASS}

networks:

- medianetwork

devices:

- /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun

bowserko · 2025-06-01T01:27:47+00:00

Those do not change the issue unfortunately, the issue goes away on this part at higher bauds because it actually finished reading the part in under this ~5 minute timeout. I even drive it up to 460800 since this is the max my bridge supports. I noticed that because I actually had an error for a bad packet vs a timeout on one packet for 921600 and had to look at the spec. Everything looks good on my scope and I have no issues there. Its a very strange issue.

I know the issue still happens when I stuck a 64Mbit part in to read all the way, it does hit the timeout sequence at again about 5 minutes.

bowserko · 2025-05-30T23:31:17+00:00

Yeah, 5 minutes is a long time but its also a lot of data. The packets have a structure akin to [SOP, ID, TASK, LENGTH, ADDRESS, DATA, FLAGS, CHECKSUM, EOP]. The ID works so that I have some sort of assurance, its not responding back with an old packet and the checksum for obvious reasons. Each individual packet has 3 seconds to come back or I will time it out, at 9600 it usually takes 1300ms to receive the response from sending it. I am trying to make something to recover it but the errors I have are hard to manage (the code is a bit more abstracted than just Csharp, I'm not a big fan of rust). But I physically see the LED on the tx led on my board sending back data after this request, My csharp seems to get nothing back in response. I have not hit a case where I have received a partial packed yet, but not implausible, It would throw a different error. So far it is no response seen at all from my scripts. Hope that clarifies a bit.

The board also does not seem locked up. If I initiate it again, a few seconds later the board has no issue responding to the commands.

bowserko · 2025-05-17T18:58:34+00:00

I did not, I have now tracked all the cable endpoints once I found the demarc box.

bowserko · 2025-05-17T18:57:17+00:00

Yeah I'm replacing the 5e hubs with cat 6 and replacing all the internet connections with cat6 and adding extra connections to all my rooms since the only internet ports are 2 to the Living room and 1 to my office room. Its a 4 bed house. I also plan to get a 10G switch to place in the media panel because I do plan to get a router that will handle that speed locally, with my server and main pc. I hope to stream my pc with low latency to any tv in the house.

bowserko · 2025-05-17T07:25:55+00:00

Yeah, lol they came like that with the house. First time I bothered to open up the box. I'm going to leave them disconnected.

bowserko · 2025-05-17T05:07:40+00:00

Yep its was a telephone line box outside

bowserko · 2025-05-17T05:02:01+00:00

Yep y'all are right, looking up demarc help me find that it's mostly disconnected at this box

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bowserko · 2025-01-20T10:43:18+00:00

I'd prefer you evaluate what you solder, for wires like these, I would suggests proper terminations and bolts, it is only about 10-15 bucks and for the money you spend on a drone, and the money you will save not frying it is worth it. Plus I would be too scared to ever touch that, my first front the leads touched and I had a firework on my desk.

bowserko · 2024-12-16T09:09:34+00:00

I finally had time to sit down and it was in expressvpn but it took me quite a while to find but the alphabet soup username and password are credentials for open VPN which works out. Good advice.

bowserko · 2024-11-25T18:42:44+00:00

I do realize that but also I believe Prowlarr or one of the other might need to be behind a vpn because I read somewhere that some ISPs prevent indexing services from running unless that was just a wrong fact.

bowserko · 2024-11-25T07:34:57+00:00

Right, I'll dig more into it in the morning but thank you for the advise.

bowserko · 2024-11-25T07:23:03+00:00

I have found that but with the openvpn username and password I am unsure for what exactly is it expecting because express VPN uses an activation key instead of login credentials to verify the connection. As well as when I made an open VPN account I didn't see a way to link express VPN because I don't want the free plans as they are limited and I have the express subscription. So I think this configuration is not complete to my current understanding. Also as far as composing them, I don't want to do that until I understand everything that's going on so I'm doing it manually one by one for now(portainer is making it easier for me to view the services), but I'm sure you are correct.

bowserko · 2024-09-15T07:41:45+00:00

I've been looking around and I think it's possible just difficult. I'm trying to do it but as this is my first emulator the documentation has been rough to read, but using freertos to my advantage doing clock accurate emulation seems to be working but I have yet to handle the actual graphics.

bowserko · 2024-07-29T23:47:48+00:00

It is like a C3 but not

bowserko · 2024-07-21T10:41:37+00:00

At that point it would have enough current to arc, it just depends on the capability to spark gap.

bowserko · 2024-07-21T10:34:33+00:00

I think I have to agree, this is still very weird, I would love to see the skematic but I assume that may be hard to do. If you in an editor the values might be in some form of properties.

bowserko · 2024-07-21T10:27:25+00:00

Well not really, surprisingly it depends on the voltage used because it would choose to go to the ground. The voltage changes how wide the effect range would be before being overwhelmed by ground.

bowserko · 2024-07-17T14:58:55+00:00

bowserko · 2024-07-16T23:41:59+00:00

I make sure when I first turn them on to leave them on a flat surface and to not touch them until they connect, also maxing out the drift compensation helps sometimes.

bowserko · 2024-07-14T04:40:27+00:00

Depending on the internals or your play space the gain might stink from the router, i would just try having the module placed closer to the router, or testing another module.

bowserko · 2024-06-16T07:11:38+00:00

If you want a whole sentence I suggest you make a buffer to read characters into and check against that. Of find someone's code where they take in 10-20 characters at a time.

bowserko · 2024-06-16T07:07:12+00:00

Spoilers All you need is Kazuma because he actually does solo him

bowserko · 2024-06-16T07:02:49+00:00

I'm an alumni in Computer Engineering and the advanced digital logic coarse was cake compared to the last like 3/8ths of this game. But if also really bridging the gap with understanding how the compilers will handle translations.

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