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[MENTION=84729]Michaelmw[/MENTION] Are you sure the Pi zero W won't be a dns bottleneck? I think I'm going to give that a go. Wish I could use one as a proxy and get those kind of stats for all traffic. I'm just not convinced it won't slow the system down somewhat.
 
JetsetWilly said:
[MENTION=84729]Michaelmw[/MENTION] Are you sure the Pi zero W won't be a dns bottleneck? I think I'm going to give that a go. Wish I could use one as a proxy and get those kind of stats for all traffic. I'm just not convinced it won't slow the system down somewhat.
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Might, Id have to investigate and check. Im not to worried however as only the Mi Boxes and the phones are configured with the custom DNS, My main machine at home has Ad block on the browser and the gaming consoles all run 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8.

The bottleneck if anything I presume to be very minimal.
 
Michaelmw said:
Might, Id have to investigate and check. Im not to worried however as only the Mi Boxes and the phones are configured with the custom DNS, My main machine at home has Ad block on the browser and the gaming consoles all run 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8.

The bottleneck if anything I presume to be very minimal.
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True, given that it's mostly DNS requests which end up being cached on the clients too.
 
Thanks to [MENTION=84729]Michaelmw[/MENTION] for getting me on to PiHole, using it with the Google DNS servers and it is working awesome so far.

Had to whitelist pirathebay tho :erm:
 
Quey_Quick said:
Thanks to [MENTION=84729]Michaelmw[/MENTION] for getting me on to PiHole, using it with the Google DNS servers and it is working awesome so far.

Had to whitelist pirathebay tho :erm:
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Epic man, glad it works for you. Just remember every now and then to update it they have a quick easy script you can run via SSH to update the blocked URLs list that’s distributed by them.

I’ll get the script to run automatically once a week which should keep new ad domains blocked :)
 
Michaelmw said:
Epic man, glad it works for you. Just remember every now and then to update it they have a quick easy script you can run via SSH to update the blocked URLs list that’s distributed by them.

I’ll get the script to run automatically once a week which should keep new ad domains blocked :)
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Will check out the script.
 
The early birds got the worms at R 508 yesterday :whistle:

Supply and demand pricing at work :erm:
 
HvRooyen said:
A few months ago new neighbours moved in - sort of. At least 5 dogs reside there permanently, and the people themselves only really stay there occasionally. Most of the time the dogs are bored, and bark through the night.
Enter the dog silencer:
A RPi, a relay board, a sound detector, an ultrasonic sound generator and the necessary speakers.
Some Python code triggers the sound cannon when noise is heard on that side of the house during the night, blasting the dogs with 120dB of 22kHz sound.
Problem solved.
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Well, I ordered that unit from Amazon, it comes with a speaker, but I got a second one as well since it can drive 2 of these piezo speakers. At the moment, I am only using 1 speaker mounted in a 20cm long PVC pipe for directionality.
I set it up last week Thursday, every time the dogs bark, I switch it on for an hour.
I was skeptical, but this weekend was so quiet, I actually climbed up on the ladder and looked over the fence. I genuine thought that the neighbours had done a midnight flip.
The unit pulses for half a second every 5 seconds, so it does not scare the dogs like fireworks, but I would liken it to a referee whistle being blown every 5 seconds, extremely irritating and annoying.
I highly recommend it for anyone that has yapping dog hassles.
 
How have I not seen this thread sooner?

I'm running the following services on a Pi 3B+
  • PiHole (DNS and DHCP)
  • PiVPN
  • Blynk Server ("Prod" - with 5/6 ESP8266's and 2/3 Sonoff Basics as clients)
  • Smokeping
  • Transmission
  • Samba
Then on a Pi 3
  • Motion Eye
  • PiHole (Failover DNS and DHCP)
  • Blynk Server ("QA")
 
patrick123 said:
Well, I ordered that unit from Amazon, it comes with a speaker, but I got a second one as well since it can drive 2 of these piezo speakers. At the moment, I am only using 1 speaker mounted in a 20cm long PVC pipe for directionality.
I set it up last week Thursday, every time the dogs bark, I switch it on for an hour.
I was skeptical, but this weekend was so quiet, I actually climbed up on the ladder and looked over the fence. I genuine thought that the neighbours had done a midnight flip.
The unit pulses for half a second every 5 seconds, so it does not scare the dogs like fireworks, but I would liken it to a referee whistle being blown every 5 seconds, extremely irritating and annoying.
I highly recommend it for anyone that has yapping dog hassles.
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Can you share the link to the device you bought?
 
Installed PiHole from the recommendations here. Very easy installation, I had thought it needed to be in between the router and the network for some reason but it can be anywhere on the network and just serves DNS queries. Doesn't block youtube ads but haven't been unhappy with the results.
 
Pseudonym said:
Installed PiHole from the recommendations here. Very easy installation, I had thought it needed to be in between the router and the network for some reason but it can be anywhere on the network and just serves DNS queries. Doesn't block youtube ads but haven't been unhappy with the results.
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The YouTube ads are a new thing that’s been slipping through. pop over to Reddit channel for the PiHole and check there too, many complaining about the same thing.

I had it running smooth for about 2 months before the ads issue came back, apparently YouTube are serving ads over YouTube URLs which cannot yet be broken up l, strange as my PC seems to block most ads with a standard ad blocker on my browser so I guess just a matter of time for the PiHole guys to catchup and dev something more intelligent to detect them ads :)
 
Michaelmw said:
The YouTube ads are a new thing that’s been slipping through. pop over to Reddit channel for the PiHole and check there too, many complaining about the same thing.

I had it running smooth for about 2 months before the ads issue came back, apparently YouTube are serving ads over YouTube URLs which cannot yet be broken up l, strange as my PC seems to block most ads with a standard ad blocker on my browser so I guess just a matter of time for the PiHole guys to catchup and dev something more intelligent to detect them ads :)
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Functionally different things they are doing to block vs local adblocker at the endpoint,and to be able to filter sub urls they'd have to work it from being a dns blocker to a proxy with SSL inspection
 
Jack Marlow said:
I'm contemplating getting one of these:

Game sells them for R299
I was wondering if there's a way to nab the screen for a RPi. Certainly cheap enough... anyone considered or tried anything like that?
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I have one of those. There is only a handful of good games on it, but I thought there might be a way to modify it and install my own games. Couldn't find a way to do it, so I also had the idea of getting a Raspberry Pi inside to run emulators. I opened mine, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way of doing that. Everything is soldered to the board and I couldn't get any information on the screen model either.

So I bought all the parts for a Pocket PiGRRL instead. I figured I could use this casing and buttons with all the components, but they don't fit. Had someone on Carb print the PiGRRL case and buttons for me, so just need to put everything together now.

https://learn.adafruit.com/pocket-pigrrl?view=all
 
I installed PiHole recently which is running on my old Pi 2B+ which was recently retired from OSMC service.

Had fun sorting out the Pace router as that doesn't allow setting the DNS server in the GUI, so if anyone needs to know how to do that particular configuration, PM me.

Anyhow, this is a question I have for the group. I have a huawei p8 lite 2017 and I noticed when accessing the PiHole web interface using Chrome on the device, on each second's refresh a query was submitted to insightapi.p3-group.com. I have given the code in the PiHole interface a brief inspection and pretty sure it isn't coming from there, so assuming some bloat-ware from either huawei or Telkom on the device.

Google reveals that huawei has worked with P3 in the Netherlands but couldn't find much beyond that. I have PiHoled the domain which doesn't appear to have broken anything (yet).

Anyone got any idea what this is all about?

PiHole.jpg
 
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IdlePhaedrus said:
I installed PiHole recently which is running on my old Pi 2B+ which was recently retired from OSMC service.

Had fun sorting out the Pace router as that doesn't allow setting the DNS server in the GUI, so if anyone needs to know how to do that particular configuration, PM me.

Anyhow, this is a question I have for the group. I have a huawei p8 lite 2017 and I noticed when accessing the PiHole web interface using Chrome on the device, on each second's refresh a query was submitted to insightapi.p3-group.com. I have given the code in the PiHole interface a brief inspection and pretty sure it isn't coming from there, so assuming some bloat-ware from either huawei or Telkom on the device.

Google reveals that huawei has worked with P3 in the Netherlands but couldn't find much beyond that. I have PiHoled the domain which doesn't appear to have broken anything (yet).

Anyone got any idea what this is all about?

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Something on your machine have bitcoin miners or cracked software?

https://github.com/bitpay/insight-api
 
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