Home Assistant Community Add-on: Pi-hole

frenck · April 14, 2019, 1:15am

@HypnoToad Not as an option in Pi-hole.
The easy workaround would be: Just give that specific device different DNS servers manually.

Devqon · April 14, 2019, 10:04am

Did you get this working? I’m trying the exact same thing. Other add-ons do work (logs viewer, idea, terminal) but the pinole proxy doesn’t seem to work with Caddy

EDIT:
I think it might have something to do with that pinole doesn’t run on https

HypnoToad · April 14, 2019, 1:21pm

Thanks that was worked, I’ve manually put the google DNS servers in the device I use for testing and it bypasses pihole.

I wish I had installed it sooner, it’s suprising how much get blocked by pihole.

berbeque · April 24, 2019, 4:48pm

Hello,
1st of all thanks for the brilliant code for home assistant and for the add-ons.
I’ve installed the pi-hole and configured some hosts definition for all the devices in the house but unfortunately on the dashboard i still got the IP of the devices and not the hostname.
There are no issues with the logs and the configuration is ok.
Host configuration “hosts”: [
{
“name”: “PC1”,
“ip”: “192.168.0.6”
},
{
“name”: “PC2”,
“ip”: “192.168.0.104”
},
{
“name”: “Router”,
“ip”: “192.168.0.1”
}
]

The dashboard tile for Top Clients (total) and Top Clients (blocked only) are still displaying the IP and not the hostname.

I’m not using the Pi-hole for the DHCP service because router is responsible for that.

Thanks,

motoolfan · April 28, 2019, 1:30pm

Is it possible to have Pi-Hole and Adguard Home installed and used at the same time in Hassio?

Roelofk85 · April 28, 2019, 6:21pm

Hello,

First of all, thanks for this addon, i really like the product!
I only have one question.
Installing this addon and get it working is all a piece of cake.
When i setup the ip of the raspberry as DNS server on a windows laptop it work just fine.
Later on i tried to setup pi-hole as DHCP server, but thats not working for me, it just kills my internet on the entire network after a few hours.
What i did:

Disable DHCP on my router
Enable DHCP on pi-hole
Settings on Pi-hole, DNS > Enable “Listen to all interfaces”
For now everything is working fine, the adds on the Android devices are gone to, this is how it should be.

The trouble starts when i want to use internet a few hours later, i can’t connect to the wifi and i can’t connect to the my router, i can’t connect also when i’m connected directly with a LAN cable.
The solution to get back online is to reset the router to factory settings again…

What is going wrong here?

Thanks!

EDIT: I can’t just put the DNS server in the router, thats disables by my internet provider…

brent0np · April 29, 2019, 2:38am

when you connect to the router using a LAN cable while your internet doesnt work, do you still get a DHCP address?

Roelofk85 · April 29, 2019, 5:52am

No, i get the message “connected without internet”…
Can’t connect to the router do i can’t see anything.

brent0np · April 29, 2019, 5:55am

If you are plugging in with a LAN cable and still getting provided a DHCP address have you tried manually entering your internet service providers DNS on the network card?

Roelofk85 · April 29, 2019, 8:32pm

Yes tried that, could connect to the router.
I think it is because of a shitty router-modem from my internet provider.
When i don’t have an internet connection my lan connection also is gone, thinking of buying a quality router myself…

brent0np · April 29, 2019, 9:38pm

Sounds like that’s a good idea. I also have an average service provider router which I intend on changing out at some point.

sooty · May 1, 2019, 4:40pm

Greetings Hass.io folk. I finally got around to adding PiHole to my HA instance. I am interested to understand if I need to worry about sd card space and management/housekeeping. Are the logs rolling or do I need to regularly purge etc?

pippopd · May 8, 2019, 6:41am

Hi, is the implementation of ingress expected? Thank you.

Klagio · May 15, 2019, 10:54am

Hi, I use my pihole instance (not in hassio) also as a DHCP server and I assign static IP addresses for all my devices.
I wish to move from a separate pi3 with pihole (and dhcp) to this addon

In pihole the file is in /etc/dnsmasq.d/04-pihole-static-dhcp.conf

Can I achieve the same with this addon?

If I try to add it manually in pihole web-ui (the hassio one) I receive this when I save a static IP address

There was a problem applying your settings.
Debugging information:
PHP error (2): fopen(/etc/dnsmasq.d/04-pihole-static-dhcp.conf): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/admin/scripts/pi-hole/php/savesettings.php:68

aaronseaton · May 28, 2019, 2:21am

Hi Everyone,

I am having trouble installing this add-on. Clicking on “Install” within the add-on store in Hassio just gives me a red button. When checking to Hassio logs I see this error:

ERROR (SyncWorker_14) [hassio.docker.interface] Can’t install hassioaddons/pi-hole-armv7:3.0.2 -> 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error (“readlink /mnt/data/docker/overlay2/l: invalid argument”)

When looking through similar errors on other threads, I thought I had a more fundamental issue with my Hassio install, but all other add-ons function normally, I am able to install other add-ons, and via Glances I have checked to see that I have more than 20GB of free space on my local file system.

Does anyone know how to solve this issue? It seems pretty basic in that the Hassio supervisor cannot mount the requested docker image. Any ideas would help.

Thanks

aaronseaton · May 30, 2019, 2:16am

Help! Any assistance on my above message would be very helpful. Is my only option to start fresh and restore an image???

Thanks

Klagio · June 2, 2019, 5:55pm

Hi with Pi-hole Hassio addon it is possible to switch pihole off temporarily with a url command ?

The normal version requires a simple url
http://yourpiholeipaddress/admin/api.php?disable=300&auth=PWHASH

How could I achieve the same with the hassio version?

Il need this because family sometimes need to connect to some specific website that doesn’t work if pihole is on, I wish to have a quick way to disable it momentarily

frenck · June 2, 2019, 6:07pm

You might want to consider switching to AdGuard if you are interested in that…
This got merged yesterday:

https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/24219

Expected to land in Home Assistant 0.95

f4bio79 · June 3, 2019, 4:05pm

Hello, does it exist a way to stop and start the PI-HOLE addon for example with an Automation?

I’ve tried to call “Hassio.addon_start” or “Hassio.addon_stop” with this parameter:

{
“addon”: “a0d7b954_pi-hole”
}

but HASSIO returns me:
… invalid slug a0d7b954_pi-hole (try a0d7b954_pi_hole) for dictionary value @ data[‘addon’]

I tried it and it doesn’t work even with

{
“addon”: “a0d7b954_pi_hole”
}

Thanks in advance for any clarification
best regards

dwinnn · June 3, 2019, 4:29pm

I was hoping this feature would be added to Pi-Hole or Adguard. Thanks again as always.