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You don't even need to buy the latest model. I've been running mine in a Pi Zero for +2 years without any problem.
I'd suggest getting an RPi with an ethernet port, I've got mine running on an original Raspberry Pi.
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Separate VLANs is the right answer. Phoning home is not an Amcrest-specific thing, all of my cameras (I have a handful of Amcrest and D-Link cameras, and one Reolink camera) try to do that. I've put them all in a separate VLAN which can't access anything, not even DNS. The NVR software lives on a different VLAN and is able to open connections to the cameras for recording. This setup works perfectly. Most importantly,…
How do you like the D-Links? I've got two plus one of their video recorder appliances, and have found them to be completely reliable but the app is hot garbage. Any tips?
Some of them are starting to exhibit mechanical failures - I have one pan/tilt model where the connection between the camera and the rest of the unit has broken, and I have another where the mechanical IR filter is starting to stick and sometimes fails to engage or disengage. I think these failures are primarily age-related and I expect that my Amcrest cameras will eventually start to fail in the same way.
These days my main considerations are whether the camera can serve up an RTSP stream. I do all of the motion detection/notification/recording/viewing/etc via Blue Iris.
Just recently I experimented going without my pi-hole or any ad blocker software for 4 weeks to see what would happen. My goodness the internet is a dumpster fire without it. So many pages lagging and slow to load. Things I wanted to click that jumped when an ad loaded resulting in miss clicks. Annoying things following me around. It was especially bad on mobile with the GDRP/Cookie notices and ad's to the point that…
Yep, my experience as well. There must be a better way. I think we're warming up for a war since browsers (Chrome and Safari at least) have slowly started making it harder to block ads, which I think will becoming a creeping normality.
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Pihole is just a GUI on top of dnsmasq, they're not doing anything fancy, apart maybe for the extra statistics. These are some interesting ideas for improvement, I'd also be interested in something with more flexibility, but I'm not sure if there's an alternative at the moment.
There are still a few possibilities for how it could work— first would be running multiple instances of dnsmasq and then putting a reverse proxy in front of them that would direct the traffic based on who's asking. Another would be switching to a purpose-built DNS resolver/cache that had this capability. Finally, you could have per-client DNS IPs, but this would require the cooperation of the DHCP server, which is le…
Pi-Hole has already gone down this road with their FTLDNS package[0], so it's really a question of where they want the project to go.
[0] https://pi-hole.net/2018/02/22/coming-soon-ftldns-pi-holes-o...
The one thing that's holding me back on actually using Pi-Hole is the lack of flexibility. What I'd really like to see is the ability to do various things on a per-client basis. For example, one commenter wanted a simple "reload without blocking" functionality and the response was to use a bookmarklet plus the Pi-Hole API to disable it temporarily. This works, but the problem is that it disables it temporarily for ev…
Heh, I'm considering it for the exact same reason you said. I want to control the whole home network with it and avoid per-client customizations. I want the exact same filter on the whole network, and I don't want it to be easily circumvented. I want to set up once and forget it and it should filter everything, automagically, every device, every browser, from the whole home network, forever. If I want to REALLY check…
Haven’t seen ads in a year and am at this point forgetting what people are so upset about ;)
Need to disable it when testing some google analytics settings or working on Pardot forms.
As the situation has worsened with the latest release of Safari I'm really interested to globally setup Pi-Hole on a VPS via docker and use it in combination with VPN (Strongswan) for all of my devices (also mobile). Has anybody had success with such a setup yet?
I have run pi-hole on the cheapest tier of Rackspace cloud server for 2+years now with great success. It’s wonderful. Just configure my routers dhcp to set my pi ip for dns and no ads anywhere (YouTube, streaming [except Hulu unfortunately], and general browsing). It’s especially nice now that it seems every company is offering their own streaming apps with ads. Recent example was I wanted to watch an action sports v…
I hesitate to mention this, as it causes heads to explode, but the problem you're describing is nicely solved with port-knocking. Might be easier than setting up the php page, etc. ...
I've had my Pi-Hole for a month now. It's great, but many blocklists are bad. People often use https://firebog.net/ to get their blocklists, and use only those with a checkmark which are, quote, "least likely to interfere with browsing". Bollocks, I've had to disable a few of the recommended ones, and adding manual whitelisted hosts because they were blocking legitimate sites (ocsp.apple.com), blocking Windows update…
I agree that blocking OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) servers is a bad practice. The argument to block them is that they can be used for tracking purposes. OCSP stapling is a great way to use OCSP without the risk of tracking - but not everyone does it or supports it. Anyways, I maintain an 'Ads & Tracking' blocklist that I believe is pretty reliable and you are welcome to give it a try if you like: https:/…