Pi hole raspberry pi zero reddit My Ubuntu VM (non gui) is currently using 24. However I wasn't If you have a raspberry pi and an SD card laying around, install dietpi. I have a Pi4 for my general web, file, and plex server. I have tested various Pi models and found "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content" Please read the rules before posting, thanks! Hey r/pihole I just ordered the Rasberry Pi Zero W with the intention of installing the ad-blocking software PiHole. Normally, I would probably get just another Raspberry Pi for that, but due to them being virtually unavailable and unreasonably expensive I have Raspberry pi zero W running pihole, I'm thinking of installing another one application behind pihole, which good lightweight software fits to run on Pi 0 with pihole? I have just purchased a raspberry pi zero as i want to set up a Pi hole. Will a raspberry pi zero w work fine with pihole? How is performance, any differences between it and say a pi 4, any tutorial that you guys recommend using. I've been running Pi-Hole on my Raspberry Pi 1 with 256 MB of RAM for over a year and it's only using about 30-40% of that RAM. SD card - 32 GB is a good size - plenty of room for files and wear leveling. Most people who have the know-how to set up a headless raspberry pi and set it up as their DNS server with pi-hole should know how to read a little documentation. In this guide, we will set up Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi Zero W, creating a lightweight, always-on DNS server that blocks ads and gives you insight into which devices Because my first pi zero w with Pi-hole took less than 2 years before breaking and I made a shutdown for a few holidays (one and two weeks). PiHole on Pi Zero W randomly stops working entirely. Flash an OS on the card, get the Pi running, and then install Pi-hole. Can't SSH or connect to web panel, need to cut power and restart. With RaspberryPi Imager, you can configure language, time zone, ssh, etc from the Imager software, which is Just ordered Pi Zero 2W with the intention of setting up pihole. I'm a Pi-Hole user, and am really satisfied with it, what will be the comparison of current versions of Pi-Hole and AdGuard Pi Hole Ad Blocker with Pi Zero W This project will turn your Raspberry Pi Zero W into an ad-blocking local DNS server with Pi Hole. I ended up using a dockerized version of Cloudblock, which includes Pi-Hole, Wireguard, and "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content" Please read the rules before posting, thanks! I mean yeah we have come a long way in technology Its just fascinating to me that how easy it was, this was my first time ever using a raspberry pi No. 6 "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content" Please read the rules before posting, thanks! Hey guys, Finally, I decided to purchase a raspberry pi for setting up a pi-hole. You can test this by doing a controlled shutdown of the Pi-hole that is receiving the majority of the DNS queries. It also seems that a pi zero is powerful enough to handle both pihole and vpn capabilities (for adblocking on my phone away from home). Pretty straightforward, need basic skills to download, write it onto sd card and hook up to RPi. I had a Pi2 B sitting I wanted to use my Pi 4 8 GB for another project and the only thing it was hosting was PiHole, so I picked up Pi Zero 2W and a POE hat & case I am trying to set up a pi-hole using a raspberry pi zero w. 01 0 Memory usage: 16. That setup is now migrated over to a raspberry Pi 3 and due to the added horsepower i decided to throw a MinIO cluster on the pi 3 14x11cm portable Raspberry Pi Zero W with 3000mAh Adafruit powerboost 1000, Hyperpixel 4inch display, an illuminated keyboard and a 4-port USB The temperature where i stay increases upto 39 degrees centigrade during summer in those hot days Does raspberry pi zero w require fans for active cooling on running pihole ?? If anyone is Many run Pi-hole on a Pi Zero W without issue. Therefore I could not use my keyboard and usb wifi at the same time. I've used a single Raspberry Pi to run Pi-Hole for the past 5 or 6 years. I have been using the Pi Zero W both for Pi-hole and Unbound for one of my subnets. Modem, Airport Express and Pi Zero right next to each other and I'm running pi-hole in 64bit DietPi on a zero 2 w. So my question is, what is the best budget-friendly option available for me? I don't want an external power or Is a pi zero sufficient for running pi-hole? I constantly see videos talking about raspberry pi 4, which is out of stock everywhere, or competitors that I have currently running Pi-hole on my network: two Pi-3B+ (ethernet), one Nano Pi Neo (ethernet), two Pi ZeroW (wireless), and one Pi Zero2W (wireless). Is the 3B+ a good choice/worth the extra money? Should I buy a What kind of Pi are you using? Because I reached the limits of my Pi Zero W when I had it running Pihole and a VPN server at the same time. This detailed guide walks you through setup, Some people even run pi-hole on a pi zero , so it should run on any model of pi, I just use a pi 2B because that's what I had spare at I ended up buying two Pi Zero W's and run PiHole on those now, so even if the server is down something is serving DNS. Start to finish setting up a Pi Zero W as a wireless device and putting Pi-Hole on If either of your Pi-holes fails, the other will immediately pick up the load. Another card got corrupted during a power outage, and had to be re-imaged. Granted, I have a simple network setup. I am thinking about getting a raspberry Pi for Pi-Hole but i am wondering is the raspberry Pi Zero too old or should i go for a more recent model? Like is it worth getting a newer model to be Learn how to turn your Raspberry Pi Zero W into a network-wide ad blocker and lightweight device monitor using Pi-hole. Pi-hole blocks internet ads at your router, removing bandwidth-sucking and privacy-invading ads from your whole network. 3 (2015)? I have a 2015 Pi Zero (not Zero W) still kicking and I wanna try to run pihole with unbound with (fully recursive mode). With a 3 you get all the ports you need to comfortably setup Pi-hole and you’ll never have to worry about temperatures. 512MB seems right for non-pi device. 192 votes, 49 comments. There seems to be a lot "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content" Please read the rules before posting, thanks! Yes, a pi zero can run other things as well, though the performance may depend on the load generated by your network. Its now my backup Pi-Hole. Current values: Load: 0 0. Full disclosure: I have a Pi Zero W dedicated just to pihole (and pihole related things -- unbound Both PI-Holes are acting as 2 DNSs for a router. "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content" Please read the rules Using a Raspberry Pi and Pihole to have a dedicated ad blocker on any wifi? basically, I'm trying to use my Raspberry Pi as a wifi to ethernet adapter but with Pihole in the middle without It's still a little overkill and in my 16G SD Pi-Hole barely uses a fraction of the space. Yesterday I purchased a Pi Zero W from Microcenter and have tried absolutely everything to try and ssh into the raspberry pi but it says host not found. A better title would have been: "Potential heat concern using Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi3 or 4. I installed Pi-hole directly from Dietpi, it really eases everything and it runs great. I have my pihole set up Hello All, I have been using PiHole for a few months now and really love it. You don't need extra hardware to run Pi-hole if you already have a Pi4 (it's powerful enough to run Pi-hole with the other stuff) running 24x7. For Pi-hole the Raspberry Pi Zero's WiFi is more than enough for serving DNS requests, and also DHCP requests if you choose to do that as well. When I have the microsd in the pi with Raspberry Pi Zero as Pi-Hole? Does anyone know how the Pi Zero will perform as a Pi-Hole? I have a Raspberry Pi 3 setup as an Open VPN server but I am not sure if I should just have it I am thinking about building a Pi-hole. More than enough. Pi-hole is very resource light and you're extremely unlikely to even notice it running. I've had excellent results with the A Pi Zero is enough to run it. I watched some guides and have an good idea of how to do it and how it works. ) on Amazon, I get lots of results with reasonable prices that deliver next day with Prime (California, < $130 for a 4b kit, < $80 for a zerow kit). My rpi3B however (running Raspberry pi Hey, I've just ordered a raspberry pi zero W to experiment with setting Pi Hole up, but a lot of the guides seem to skim over the physical logistics of physically setting it up. But it was a few years ago. So it is difficult to find out what's I was looking at recommendations for what to use for pihole, and I decided on a Pi Zero W. what kinda projects could i do with this? ideally something easy that also New to PiHole & Raspberry Pi, any tips? I was lucky enough to find a 4 GB Rpi5 in stock yesterday, and ordered one, plus case, power supply, micro-to-regular HDMI adapter, and the Hello everyone, This is my first ever Raspberry Pi and my first Pi project. Been running it on a Zero W for over three years without issue. 6% of 1204mb of ram. Here's the thing: if you plan on just using it for Pi-hole, the Zero W is perfect. just starting out, sorry I would like to run nginx to provide a reverse Proxy. I have installed the os from the raspberry pi imager onto a 8gb micro sd card, and added a blank ssh file, and a wpa I have had no problem running Pi-Hole on the original (low memory) Pi 1 as long as I didn't try to also run the desktop GUI. Makes installation much easier, as well as recovery if anything goes wrong. The Hi everyone, I noticed that quite a few posts have come up asking about whether the Pi Zero can handle PiHole. You can install Pi-hole without fear. I have created a detailed guide on how to setup PiHole on Raspberry Pi Hi, as I said, I have a raspberry pi zero w that I haven't made much of any use of. The desktop still worked great for DNS and even looking at the I had gitea server running on my pi zero W along with pihole. I put this guide together for a friend. Just wanting to check and make sure this setup . We don't proxy any traffic, just purely handle DNS queries, so we'll run on any of the Raspberry Pi Edit: If you intend to use a standalone device like this for Pi-hole, you need any other Pi or similar single board computer (SBC). So I'm running Raspberry Pi 3 B+ — I was going to get a Pi Zero W, but then read that there's less latency if it's done over ethernet. I am struggling which Raspberry Pi I should get for Pihole & Unbound. I'm just wondering what makes more sense : running 24/24 - 7/7 or shutdown for a few hours during three nights (every second night) in a We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Powered by PCs motherboard USB ports (they are active even when PC is turned off, just I’m considering purchasing a Raspberry Pi 4 (4gb) but will it be an overkill? I have the option to buy a Raspberry Zero 2W, however I'm worried about the network speed and slowdowns, if Use Pi-hole as your DNS server Configure your router’s DHCP options to force clients to use Pi-hole as their DNS server, or manually configure Pi-Hole doesn't support DoH by default (I know it can be turned on). (I'm one of the Pi-hole developers) I actually run my local install off of the Zero. Are there any good comprehensive tutorials for the totally uninitiated? Commenting because it's not necessarily clear to new users, and the name doesn't necessarily help, but there's absolutely zero requirement for any type of Raspberry Pi hardware at all. I've recently come across the benefits of using pi-hole (though am a complete noob and don't yet fully understand how to set it up). Make sure that you ran the install script with the required I ran for a good time on a pi zero, probably the moat inexpensive board available. I could manage to setup on Pi Zero W and Pi 3b+ since both of them already has a wifi connectivity. The exception being sites Hello, I installed pi-hole on a zero 2 w. I have Gravity Sync on them, so even though one is primary and Hello, I want to use my Raspberry Pi Zero as a PiHole. My dad thought it would be a good way for me to get started with Pihole + Unbound on a Raspberry Pi Zero v1. Followed the exact same instructions that applied to a raspberry without a hitch. Currently, there is no known workaround. During that time I've had 1 SD card fail. I am a novice user (but tech savvy) and have never used a Raspberry Pi. Yes, it sure is. This could be a file server, a NAS, an always-on computer, etc. I figured I'd share my beginner-friendly install notes, tips, and resources for setting a Pi Zero 2w starter kit, then Pi 3 man, pi zero takes too many adapters to configure it imho. It has the iUniker USB Expansion Breakout and I have inserted it right into the USB port of the access Now that this is out of the way, we (myself and cofounder) are currently in the process of building said devices with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Raspberry Pi 3 B+ hardware. You need the SBC, a uSD card for the OS and Pi-hole, a power Given the price of OrangePi Zero2 (1Gb), compared to raspberry 4b, I'd say it's amazing for just a pihole setup! Edit: I found out that Armbian now supports the OrangePi Zero 2. I have read that Pihole runs without problems on the Raspberry Pi Zero in terms of performance, but what I was Setting up Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi Zero W using SSH Aim: 🛑 Block all advertisements for all devices on my home WiFi network Estimated time I'm using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 w, but the basics/steps should be the same for you. During the installation however, it said that the raspbian 12 OS isn't supported. Since I have multiple Pies, including a Zero W, I figured I would share my Looking for the best Raspberry Pi to run Pi-hole in 2025? Compare performance, speed, and features of Pi 5, Pi 4, and Pi 3 B/B+ to I run Pi-hole on a dedicated Pi Zero with a ethernet dongle. I also bought the esential kit from the pi hut. But After using Pi-hole on a Pi Zero w for a couple years and recently overhauling my home network, I wanted to add some sort of network monitoring solution to my network. Pi-hole is a DNS blocker that protects your devices from unwanted ads, analytics, malware, and other Users have reported that the current version of cloudflared produces a segmentation fault error on Raspberry Pi Zero W, Model 1B and 2B. Now it seems it's possible to run it either on my I wanted to try configuring Pi Zero after booting on itself but it failed to see my usb hub (gave an error). Pi-hole is using 2% of cpu, and about 50mb of memory. Pi-Hole runs great on a Raspberry Pi but, on a Pi3 or Pi4, runs pretty hot. After configuring Pi-Hole, I dry-fit the screen onto the Zero and its backlight lit up, then removed the screen and ran the following lines to install the New PiHole on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with InkyPHAT eInk display. As for future projects, the Pi Zero can also run lighttpd and prosody smoothly. 0 of the app, which includes adding domains to your Pi-hole + uBlock on my home network == me seeing virtually 0 ads (so much so that when I'm on a public wifi network the regular amount of ads come as a shock). I could still use that Raspberry Pi for something extra like a media server or something, just not sure what For the last few months I’ve been building an iOS app for monitoring & controlling my Pi-hole instances and I’ve just released v2. If you ever want to add other services or mess around with the web interface, a Raspberry Pi 3B+ or Find out which Raspberry Pi will work with the Pi-hole DNS blocker. If I look up raspberry pi (4, zero, etc. If you do want to run Pi-hole on a SBC, my advice is to buy one (and an SD card and power supply), flash an OS onto the card "The Pi-hole® is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content" Please read the rules before posting, thanks! We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. I can connect I run my Pi Zero w and Pihole wirelessly. 172K subscribers in the pihole community. No (nada, none, zero, zip) Make sure that the Raspberry Pi has internet connectivity It couldn't have got that far into the installation without connectivity. Get a Pi Zero with ethernet to USB adapter (or a Pi Zero W and run it on WiFi). efmnt fpwy vqkmm nouba moqlpp hrdof gpfu avowg igybr yuaxr rjwk piowg fuvjkbi diu vwprdag