***** RESULT ******
After a good night sleep, I did the following:
1) flashed Zgemma H7S with openatv 6.4 emmc
2) only set tuner config.
3) kept dhcp settings (using static lease)
4) installed vpnmanager using script file in terminal.
- replaced user with my standard PIA username (P1234567)
- replaced password with my standard PIA password matching above P-account
5) Box rebooted as programmed in script
6) Menu-> plugins->vpnmanager
- in VPNmanager ->menu->all config in one folder "YES"
- check PIA username & password
- Press "OK"
- select country to connect to
- press "OK"
- IPaddress in top right corner should change
7) Extra check,
- open terminal and connect to receiver
- copy "http://checkip.dyndns.org" and paste on prompt and press ENTER
I want to thank all who helped me with my troubles. I learned a lot from it.
It remains strange that when configuring VPN connections in the past, I had to use the X-username instead of the P-username.
But as always, results counts.
greetings Tom