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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[–] bioemerl@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Build a proper router with PF sense. I can do everything that pie hole can do, and more, and you get to have fully custom eternally upgradable router software in general that you can use to do things like network scanning and all sorts of other fun stuff.

I briefly used the raspberry pi for that purpose, but honestly I'm much happier having built a full router.

[–] Maximilious@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As this is a sound suggestion, this is probably not suited to this users needs right now and he should start small. I started my home lab by deploying Pihole on in podman on a virtual machine in my VMware environment and even that had a little learning curve for me as a network engineer. If he wants to tackle pfense at some point, then migrating Pihole via gravity sync should be a cake walk.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Been running pfsense for years, and I definitely recommend it.