Home Assistant Community Add-on: Pi-hole

frenck · August 23, 2018, 9:00pm

Release v2.0.1

Fixed

Corrects incorrect permission of DHCP leases file
Migrates additional DNSMasq configuration on upgrade

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slonkar · August 23, 2018, 10:51pm

I am not forwarding my 80. Do I have to do it even if I’m using direct IP address?

frenck · August 23, 2018, 11:04pm

You might want to upgrade to the new 2.0.1 version of the add-on. This new version simplifies the ports used. See the v2.0.0 release notes above.

slonkar · August 23, 2018, 11:10pm

@frenck I checked but looks its still not showing updated version on Add-on page. The latest it showing is 1.3.0, I am in PST time zone.

frenck · August 23, 2018, 11:21pm

There is a refresh button… top right… in the add-on store…

slonkar · August 23, 2018, 11:44pm

@frenck Refersh button worked, so I went through all installation again. Updated my password in config file. Restarted the add-on. Restarted HA to be on safe side. Now, when I click open web interface it takes me to https://xxxx.duckdns.org:4865 but page is not loading. You mentioned earlier that 2.0.1 handles port differently. Do I have to expose 4865 on my router?

frenck · August 23, 2018, 11:59pm

Duckdns domain == outside world.
If you want to expose it to the outside world, you’d need a port forward, yes.

Generally, forward the least ports possible and use hassio.local for none forwarded stuff (and disable SSL on those non-forwarded ports as well)

slonkar · August 24, 2018, 12:41am

So I was able to get working my putting my local IP address http://local_ip_address::4865/admin in virtual host place. Thank you very much.

HeffeD · August 24, 2018, 3:53am

I’ve been curious about this for a while. I’m not able to select IPv6 upstream DNS servers. The options are grayed out. I haven’t really worried about it, but I’m seeing more and more IPv6 queries. (26%) What do I need to change to also filter these requests?

k1282 · August 24, 2018, 7:31am

pi hole does not work for me since the updates in the last 24h. log file tell me that everything looks good but i kep getting line after line containing the following:

dnsmasq: unknown user or group: dnsmasq

i took a look at the breaking changes, and just found that I needed to add a “nice” password.

I am not using pi hole in a very fancy way, just the default settings and protect my devices manually, by adding the dns on the device of my choice. However, I am running hassio via duckdns.

any idea?

frenck · August 24, 2018, 7:43am

@k1282 Sorry to hear you are experiencing problems.

Could you please provide me the logs from the start until the first you’ve shown occurs?

k1282 · August 24, 2018, 8:10am

sure:

> [s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0.
> [s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0.
> [fix-attrs.d] applying ownership &amp; permissions fixes...
> [fix-attrs.d] 01-resolver-resolv: applying...
> [fix-attrs.d] 01-resolver-resolv: exited 0.
> [fix-attrs.d] 01-sudo: applying...
> [fix-attrs.d] 01-sudo: exited 0.
> [fix-attrs.d] 02-nginx: applying...
> [fix-attrs.d] 02-nginx: exited 0.
> [fix-attrs.d] 03-pihole: applying...
> [fix-attrs.d] 03-pihole: exited 0.
> [fix-attrs.d] done.
> [cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts...
> [cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: executing...
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> [Hass.io](http://hass.io/) Add-on: Pi-hole v2.0.1
> Network-wide ad blocking using your [Hass.io](http://hass.io/) instance
> From: Community [Hass.io](http://hass.io/) Add-ons
> By: Franck Nijhof &lt;[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])&gt;
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> armhf / Resin OS 2.3.0+rev1 / HA 0.76.2 / SU 127 / stable
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> [cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 01-log-level.sh: executing...
> Log level is set to INFO
> [cont-init.d] 01-log-level.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 02-updates.sh: executing...
> INFO: You are running the latest version of this add-on
> [cont-init.d] 02-updates.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 10-requirements.sh: executing...
> INFO: Password is NOT in the Have I Been Pwned database! Nice!
> [cont-init.d] 10-requirements.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 20-patches.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 20-patches.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 21-v4-migration.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 21-v4-migration.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 30-pihole.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 30-pihole.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 31-pihole-ftl.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 31-pihole-ftl.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 32-nginx.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 32-nginx.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 33-password.sh: executing...
> [✓] New password set
> [cont-init.d] 33-password.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 34-hostname.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 34-hostname.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 35-logfiles.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 35-logfiles.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 36-hosts.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 36-hosts.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 50-gravity.sh: executing...
> [cont-init.d] 50-gravity.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] 99-tests.sh: executing...
> dnsmasq: syntax check OK.
> [24-Aug-2018 09:07:53] NOTICE: configuration file /etc/php7/php-fpm.conf test is successful
> nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
> nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
> [cont-init.d] 99-tests.sh: exited 0.
> [cont-init.d] done.
> [services.d] starting services
> [services.d] done.
> dnsmasq: unknown user or group: dnsmasq
> dnsmasq: unknown user or group: dnsmasq
> dnsmasq: unknown user or group: dnsmasq
> dnsmasq: unknown user or group: dnsmasq

Eskimos · August 24, 2018, 8:36am

Hi,

After upgrading to 2.0.1, I got error:

Log Details (ERROR)

Fri Aug 24 2018 18:29:22 GMT+1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time)

Unable to fetch data from Pi-hole

However on pi-hole log it seems to be OK, it started and it is working. Any idea please?

frenck · August 24, 2018, 8:38am

Thank you @k1282, meanwhile I’ve received the same issue on GitHub, you can track the issue here:

https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-pi-hole/issues/35

frenck · August 24, 2018, 8:39am

That is a weird looking error message format. Where do you get this message?
Anything in the add-on logs?

g.nigro · August 24, 2018, 8:58am

i had same issue upgrading to 2.0:
dnsmasq: unknown user or group: dnsmasq,
since i’ve upgraded to 2.1 it’s gone…
Phi-hole seems to work flawless ( not fully tested)
but the Hass.io log says:
Unable to fetch data from Pi-hole

frenck · August 24, 2018, 9:19am

The Hassio log does not report these things. I guess you are talking about the home assistant Pi-hole component. Did you change the port number in your Component configuration?

g.nigro · August 24, 2018, 9:25am

sorry, you where right, the log it’s referred to home assistant log not Hass.io!
anyway, i’ve not changed the default ports on the config, what do you mean?

{
“log_level”: “info”,
“password”: “***”,
“update_lists_on_start”: false,
“admin_port”: 4865,
“dns_port”: 53,
“ssl”: false,
“certfile”: “fullchain.pem”,
“keyfile”: “privkey.pem”,
“interface”: “”,
“ipv6”: true,
“ipv4_address”: “”,
“ipv6_address”: “”,
“virtual_host”: “”,
“hosts”: [],
“http_port”: 80,
“https_port”: 443
}

frenck · August 24, 2018, 9:26am

As per changelog (post above) and the breaking changes, the default admin port is now 4865. Did you change your Home Assistant pihole component configuration to match that?

tielemans.jorim · August 24, 2018, 9:42am

Which option of the Pi-hole Sensor component should be set? Because there is no specific ‘port’-option, I assume the following should be correct?

sensor:
  - platform: pi_hole
    host: localhost:4865
    location: ""

I made this assumption knowing the used Python API sets the base_url for requests in the format of {schema}://{host}/{location}/api.php.

EDIT: see frenck’s post below for the correct usage. To avoid confusion I updated my example as well.