If you're looking for a way to quickly and easily get up and running with a Pi-hole device for your home network, this is the project for you.
This project is a balenaCloud stack with the following services:
- Pi-hole (including PADD)
- dnscrypt-proxy (optional)
balenaCloud is a free service to remotely manage and update your Raspberry Pi through an online dashboard interface, as well as providing remote access to the Pi-hole web interface without any additional configuation.
To get started you'll first need to sign up for a free balenaCloud account and flash your device.
https://www.balena.io/docs/learn/getting-started
Once your account is set up, deployment is carried out by downloading the project and pushing it to your device either via Git or the balena CLI.
Device Variables apply to all services within the application, and can be applied fleet-wide to apply to multiple devices.
| Name | Example | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
TZ |
America/Toronto |
To inform services of the timezone in your location, in order to set times and dates within the applications correctly. Find a list of all timezone values here. |
DNSMASQ_LISTENING |
eth0 |
We set this to eth0 to indicate we want DNSMASQ to listen on the ethernet interface of the Raspberry Pi. If you're connecting to your network with WiFi replace this with wlan0 |
INTERFACE |
eth0 |
As above. |
WEBPASSWORD |
mysecretpassword |
(optional) password for accessing the web-based interface of Pi-hole - you won’t be able to access the admin panel without defining a password here. |
DNS1 |
127.0.0.1#5300 |
(optional) Tell Pi-hole where to forward DNS requests that aren’t blocked. We’re using the dnscrypt-proxy project here but you can specify your own. |
DNS2 |
127.0.0.1#5300 |
(optional) Secondary DNS server - see above. |
ServerIP |
x.x.x.x |
(Recommended) Set to your server's LAN IP, used by web block modes and lighttpd bind address. |
- https://www.balena.io/blog/deploy-network-wide-ad-blocking-with-pi-hole-and-a-raspberry-pi/
- https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki
Note that you can change the dnscrypt-proxy upstream servers with some minor tweaks in dnscrypt-proxy/Dockerfile.
If you're having trouble getting the project running, submit an issue or post on the forums at https://forums.balena.io.
Kyle Harding kylemharding@gmail.com