I’m curious why AdGuard Home is favored by HA over Pi-Hole. Pi-Hole has a massive number of users and a tremendous support network, but when I decided to install the Pi-Hole integration and started looking around for dashboard examples that folks have done I saw that Pi-Hole is now depreciated but AdGuard is the go-to - even going as far in the main support thread to indicate that Pi-Hole is depreciated and people should use AdGuard instead.
The Pi-Hole integration works fine, so I don’t really care who uses what, I just don’t understand why AdGuard takes precedence over Pi-Hole when it comes to Home Assistant.
Probably because the maintainer (frenck) doesn’t want to maintain both versions.
To quote the pi-hole page
Pi-hole used to be a great solution to filter network traffic, but it has been a challenge to keep/get it in a working state as an add-on.
Meanwhile, the AdGuard team published an alternative: AdGuard Home .
AdGuard Home as surpassed Pi-hole in terms of capabilities, features, and stability, and Home Assistant provides a good integration with AdGuard. Above all, the AdGuard Home team has been supportive in developing the add-on.
For those reasons, it is no longer viable to keep maintaining the Pi-hole add-on, which has been problematic at best.
I also still use pi-hole. You can check out my pictures from the system monitoring views here in my repo. In the middle of the network view there’s my pi-hole stuff.