It looks long and scary, but I tried to be as thorough as possible. Hopefully someone will benefit from this guide. The necessary parts came in to build Mom’s Raspberry Pi-Hole server, so I thought I’d take the extra time to keep track of every step, trying to make it as easy and low-cost as I could. This meant not attaching a monitor or keyboard through the entire process. It’s coming up on a year since part 1, so long overdue. Now I need to make time to get more automating done in Home Assistant and publish part 2 and 3 of my home automation series. A bonus of this connection change is the Speedtest reporting inside HA is much more accurate. I bet this has done more than anything to improve the stability and consistency of my system. It’s wired in through an AirPort Time Capsule, which is connected to the Eero via a really long cable running through the basement. Changed a few things with home-assistant-pi as well.Īnother big change I made to the server is connecting it to my network via ethernet instead of WiFi. Seems to run much more stable, which may also have something to do with the fresh Home Assistant install. It’s hard going back to a web littered with ads when you’ve been living without them.įigured I might as well keep going, so I also made a bunch of improvements to the Raspberry Pi Temperature Monitor I use in my garage. Due to issues with my old router I’d been living without ad blocking for a few weeks and it was horrible. Installing Pi-Hole as a Hass.io add-on is slick. When I first started using Home Assistant, the project was pretty immature so I didn’t use it. Instead of installing Raspbian and all of the software myself, I took advantage of Hass.io, which is a preconfigured image and works well. While I was working on my network I took the opportunity to do a fresh install of everything on the Raspberry Pi server running Home Assistant and Pi-Hole. I decided to use a new Wi-Fi network name, which was not one of my best ideas reconfiguring about 30 devices was a pain in the ass! My router had been flaking out, so I picked up a Eero with 1 beacon.
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