

Is there anything out there for the RPi that I could leverage?Įdit: Please keep any ‘parenting opinions’ out of this question. They finish their home schooling / chores, I can now flick it back on. So for example, I wake up … kids have commitments (home schooling, chores, etc), I wish to ‘flick a switch’ and YouTube is now blocked. if going to YouTube, deny.Īlso (which makes this really hard) is that I don’t want to block YouTube 24×7. I was really hoping that I could use my RPI (which is doing nothing/not turned on/gathering dust) to be some middleware hardware device that could be used to intercept any traffics from a specific set of MAC’s or static LAN IP’s and. I could manually change the DNS settings of the ‘parents’ devices, but this too is a pain. Initially I was thinking of OpenDNS but that would block everything in this LAN. piece of cake.I’m trying to block Youtube on my various children’s devices, but have it allowed/open on the parents devices. If something breaks - restore the backup and try again :-) I am not familiar with pi-hole, but it looks like you must download an installer and run it (most likely as root). After that try installing each and every additional app you like. Once you have Kodi running to your liking make a backup of the SD card. I know of at least two distributions of Kodi and because it is really multiple applications configured together (hard to get right initially) I would recommend you to start with that. However, you should keep the program update to date.

The cloudflared tool will not receive updates through the package manager.

The hardest thing to get running is a chromecast / MiracleCast "emulation". Finally, configure Pi-hole to use the local cloudflared service as the upstream DNS server by specifying 127.3 as the Custom DNS (IPv4): (dont forget to hit Return or click on Save). Obviously the third way is to start with OS image with some app installed for you and then add the rest of the applications. The other way is to install a base distribution (like Raspbian) and then install any number of applications. Close the terminal window were done with the command. The easiest way to run something on your PI is to download an OS image. Next, type the command below to install Pi-hole, selecting the default options and writing down any network info you see: 2. The tricky part will be getting all of them installed and configured to your liking. Pi-hole - Network-wide Ad Blocking is a signifying ad-blocking platform. You can run any number of apps you want on the PI, as long as you have free RAM, disk space and CPU time. NxFilter is an elegant free web filtering app that controls user activity and.
