Entware Pi-hole directly on the router? Yes!

[kuki68ster]

Hi there,

I am getting errors acessing the opkg update:

 

[jacklul]

Hi there,

I am getting errors acessing the opkg update:

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URL slightly changed per @thelonelycoder suggestion, see here https://www.snbforums.com/threads/pi-hole-directly-on-the-router-yes.90719/post-914979

 

[the_harpy]

Hi ,
Not very experienced with Linux .
Can any one help me
How to add custom URL of pi hole in opkg.conf configuration
as per (https://github.com/jacklul/entware-pi-hole#installation)
Running BE98Pro with Merlin 3006.102.1 , Entware installed.

Above issue has been fixed
but now no modification saved within /opt/etc/pihole/pihole.toml
every time I restart the pi hole FTL the above file is reverting to default
pi hole installed properly

Thanks

 

[jacklul]

Hi ,
Not very experienced with Linux .
Can any one help me
How to add custom URL of pi hole in opkg.conf configuration
as per (https://github.com/jacklul/entware-pi-hole#installation)
Running BE98Pro with Merlin 3006.102.1 , Entware installed.

Above issue has been fixed
but now no modification saved within /opt/etc/pihole/pihole.toml
every time I restart the pi hole FTL the above file is reverting to default
pi hole installed properly

Thanks

You should probably stop pihole-FTL before making changes as it writes the config on shutdown when restarting.
You can also modify the configuration through the web UI which is way more user friendly.

 

[the_harpy]

You should probably stop pihole-FTL before making changes as it writes the config on shutdown when restarting.
You can also modify the configuration through the web UI which is way more user friendly.

thanks for reply , yes I did stop pihole ftl and also dnsmsq before edit these files.
but still pihole.toml not saving any modification , instead reverting back to installation default upon restarting the pihole ftl
lastly i tried without modification and able to open Pihole web interface with this URL ( http://<my router IP>:8080/admin/ )
few issue observed > Temp N/A
Unable to update Pihole through ssh pihole -up
Web interface open without any user name and password

 

[jacklul]

thanks for reply , yes I did stop pihole ftl and also dnsmsq before edit these files.
but still pihole.toml not saving any modification , instead reverting back to installation default upon restarting the pihole ftl
lastly i tried without modification and able to open Pihole web interface with this URL ( http://<my router IP>:8080/admin/ )
few issue observed > Temp N/A
Unable to update Pihole through ssh pihole -up
Web interface open without any user name and password

The config file might revert to default if you make any mistake in formatting and it cannot parse it
Missing temperature display is to be expected and is not a big deal.
`pihole -up` will not be supported, updates will be delivered through opkg.
If you had pihole.toml placed prior to installation it will not modify it to set a password - instead a warning is show in the console when installing the package.

If this was your first install and pihole.toml was not placed in /opt/etc/pihole prior to installation of the package then random password would be generated in newly created /opt/etc/pihole/pihole.toml.
Pretty sure you're creating a syntax error in the file and it reverts to default, that would explain why the password protection is gone.

 

[jacklul]

Just a little announcement that Pi-hole V6 has been officially released and now the main Entware package ("pi-hole") is tracking upstream releases.

 

[JGrana]

Ahhhh, I can see it now, coming soon…

PiHoleMon

;-)

 

[kuki68ster]

Just a little announcement that Pi-hole V6 has been officially released and now the main Entware package ("pi-hole") is tracking upstream releases.

I am jumping in again...

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

Ahhhh, I can see it now, coming soon…

PiHoleMon

;-)

I bet @Viktor Jaep can come up with all kinds of fancy hooks for ye 'ole terminal users.

 

[js28194]

Can this be installed along side of diversion or skynet? Intrested to install and test run this, but was not sure if there would be any issues.

 

[jacklul]

Can this be installed along side of diversion or skynet? Intrested to install and test run this, but was not sure if there would be any issues.

Pi-hole is a DNS server, so the adblocking happens on the DNS level, since those might get filtered by mentioned addons then yes, it might create conflicts.

 

[jacklul]

Since this was mentioned before: pihole-updatelists script has been updated to run on Entware, to install it:

opkg install php8-cli php8-mod-filter php8-mod-pdo-sqlite php8-mod-curl php8-mod-openssl php8-mod-intl php8-mod-pcntl
ln -s /opt/bin/php-cli /opt/bin/php
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jacklul/pihole-updatelists/master/install.sh | bash

And then continue as in the readme.