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Setting up Pi-hole

I did the opposite :D

Got sick of maintaining it on the bare metal OS and threw it into a docker container running on a proxmox VM.

I love how a full update is just restarting the container with an image repull in about 5 seconds.
 
My router has something called AdGuard built in which is meant to be like PiHole. Haven't tested it yet though although freeing up the RPi would be nice as I could do some interesting things with it.
 
Cromulent said:
My router has something called AdGuard built in which is meant to be like PiHole. Haven't tested it yet though although freeing up the RPi would be nice as I could do some interesting things with it.
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It's built into the Slate AX GL.iNet router I use as a WAP in my network setup, though it's not currently enabled as my OpnSense box does all heavy work and blocking. There simply isn't enough memory or storage to run more than a few block lists when AdGuard is enabled on the Slate AX. Previously I had a PCEngines APU2 with 4GB of memory and a 1TB mSATA SSD in it that had no problem running it. But anything with ARM chips, and tiny capacity memory and storage makes it an impossible to run. I honestly don't know why they bother including it as a package other than it being a feature and people not realising it's severely limited by memory and storage limitations.
 
Nails said:
It's built into the Slate AX GL.iNet router I use as a WAP in my network setup, though it's not currently enabled as my OpnSense box does all heavy work and blocking. There simply isn't enough memory or storage to run more than a few block lists when AdGuard is enabled on the Slate AX. Previously I had a PCEngines APU2 with 4GB of memory and a 1TB mSATA SSD in it that had no problem running it. But anything with ARM chips, and tiny capacity memory and storage makes it an impossible to run. I honestly don't know why they bother including it as a package other than it being a feature and people not realising it's severely limited by memory and storage limitations.
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Interesting. Thank you. I have the GL-iNET Flint 4 router but I'm sure if it can run it. I guess I can just stick to PiHole for the time being.
 
Cromulent said:
GL-iNET Flint 4
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That has much better specs than the Slate AX I have. You have storage and memory measured in GB rather than MB. 2GB of DDR4 memory and 64GB of eMMC to be precise. It should be able to handle running AdGuard with all the major block lists you'd want/need. My AX on the other hand has 512MB of DDR3L and 128MB of NAND flash. More than a few blocklists enabled in adguard and my Slate AX chokes.
 
Nails said:
That has much better specs than the Slate AX I have. You have storage and memory measured in GB rather than MB. 2GB of DDR4 memory and 64GB of eMMC to be precise. It should be able to handle running AdGuard with all the major block lists you'd want/need. My AX on the other hand has 512MB of DDR3L and 128MB of NAND flash. More than a few blocklists enabled in adguard and my Slate AX chokes.
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In that case I'll give it a go. I've wanted to do other things on my RPi for sometime anyway so that'll be good.
 
Cromulent said:
In that case I'll give it a go. I've wanted to do other things on my RPi for sometime anyway so that'll be good.
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Depending on your Pi specs, you absolutely can use it for other things as well as run PiHole with the beauty of containers (Docker). My Pi5 runs Adguard Home, Flightradar24 tracking, Sponsor Block for YouTube and some other things.
 
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ChrisD. said:
Depending on your Pi specs, you absolutely can use it for other things as well as run PiHole with the beauty of containers (Docker). My Pi5 runs Adguard Home, Flightradar24 tracking, Sponsor Block for YouTube and some other things.
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Yeah. I want to run an IRC bouncer and possibly PostgreSQL on it. I'm sure I'll think of other things to put on it.
 
ChrisD. said:
Depending on your Pi specs, you absolutely can use it for other things as well as run PiHole with the beauty of containers (Docker). My Pi5 runs Adguard Home, Flightradar24 tracking, Sponsor Block for YouTube and some other things.
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What do you use for flightradar?
 
software, I assume you're tracking rather than just viewing but I wanted something to have on screen like a screensaver considering the pi is always on anyway :)
 
Rob_B said:
software, I assume you're tracking rather than just viewing but I wanted something to have on screen like a screensaver considering the pi is always on anyway :)
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There's two options really, the first being you use FR24's Pi image, or you can install using their scripts on most OSs which is what I did. There's nothing to watch on a screen though, it uses ADS-B receiver and antenna to give data to FR24. In turn, I get a free contributor account that acts the same way as the paid for business account. You can then install something like wiedehopf/tar1090 which will give you a local web page view of what your receiver is reporting.

I'm sure there are options for displaying FR24 on a Pi screen, but it's not what I use it for - it's headless in my loft.
 
Just installed Pi-hole on an old laptop, running Alpine. Seems to be working.
Going to try and skim this thread but any obvious tips or things to be aware of?
Currently running these lists...


~4.6m entries, too much, too little, suggestions?

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Too much. You should only need the Hagezi ones and you may find with the pro plus you'll have to whitelist.

I just use the pro with tif and don't run into any issues but YMMV.
 
ChrisD. said:
There's two options really, the first being you use FR24's Pi image, or you can install using their scripts on most OSs which is what I did. There's nothing to watch on a screen though, it uses ADS-B receiver and antenna to give data to FR24. In turn, I get a free contributor account that acts the same way as the paid for business account. You can then install something like wiedehopf/tar1090 which will give you a local web page view of what your receiver is reporting.

I'm sure there are options for displaying FR24 on a Pi screen, but it's not what I use it for - it's headless in my loft.
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There's also a tracking OS image within the official imager app. Makes it easier feed multiple destinations.
 
maj said:
Too much. You should only need the Hagezi ones and you may find with the pro plus you'll have to whitelist.

I just use the pro with tif and don't run into any issues but YMMV.
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Thanks for the info, I'll test around the hagezi lists if they're known to be good.
Whitelisting I don't mind too much, should be easier to do in one place.
 
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