I want to use pi-hole and it comes highly recommended to use raspberry pi to cover the house and have an always on capability. I started looking at just starter packages at Amazon and they don't come with a monitor, which it looks like you need. How do I do this? I want a raspberry pi to run pi-hole to protect my house.

Edit: Thank you all so much for the tips and all the different ways to get this up and going , I am officially on my pi-hole journey!

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[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not all that hard.

Youll need a pihole and a micro SD card for it. On that micro SD you're going to install the operating system. There is a guide for how to do this on the raspberry pi website. As part of that installation, you can tell the installer to also install an SSH server. That will allow you to connect remotely. You can also have the installer create a user account for you. Do that.

Once you've done that you'll put the SD card into the pihole and plug in the pihole. It should boot from the SD card. Plug the pihole into your router via ether net, this is very important. It guarantees it will get an IP address.

Check your router for the pihole. You should see it. Grab it's ip address, and use whatever SSH client you like. On windows I like mRemoteNG. SSH into your pis IP address using the username and password you made earlier, when you installed the OS. Then, Google pihole. Follow the install directions on the pihole. Once it's set up, set your router to use it for DNS.

That's all!

[–] scubbo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus your PiHole into your router via Ethernet net, this is very important. It guarantees it will get an IP address.

Are you suggesting that Wifi-connected devices don't get IP Addresses?

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, but I can't remember whether the OS installation includes options for setting up a wifi connection. Safest bet is to use ethernet.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Raspberry Pi Imager indeed has options for setting up your WiFi during image creation.

However, you're still correct that Ethernet is best bet, simply because if you mistype your WiFi info... it won't be able to connect.