A few months ago I added Pi-Hole to my old raspberry pi, (Raspberry Pi Model B) just to try it out and it was very effective. However as I had a newer Pi which seemed to have plenty of capacity (Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Quad Core CPU 1.2 GHz 1 GB RAM Motherboard) I thought what the heck, let’s streamline this and add Pi-Hole to HA. Again, no problem all went well. Last week I thought, what the heck, let’s throw a VPN in there too. It seemed to work but then overnight the perfect storm of updates hit; a new iOS app, some updates to security on the network at work and I also got a new external IP address. Everything still worked, but differently at home to work. I removed the IP address for pi-hole from my router and stopped using the VPN and of course now HA and the iOS app are back to working perfectly fine, the same at work and home.
My question is, do people think running HA, Pi-Hole AND a VPN is a sane proposition on one Pi? Here’s my basic setup;
- HA on Hassbian (I prefer to tinker, Hass.io isn’t my bag)
- iOS HA App for device tracking (I trigger automations when I arrive/leave work)
- restricted ports from the wifi at work (I don’t have a list, and don’t want to poke around)
- BT unlimited fibre (so good connection at home, but no fixed IP available)
- Archer D7 router (I have the BT Smart Hub as well just didn’t bother plugging it in)
- script running to update my domain’s A record with an IP so I have a permanent address to login externally