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Nor am I, it was a total piece of piss.
Use etcher to copy raspbian image onto an sd card (in a Windows PC). I didn't use the fancier "desktop" version of raspbian. Smaller, lighter one is fine. There are a bunch of step by step guides for this bit online.
Connect a monitor and keyboard to the rpi and stick the sd in. Plug in power and follow the basic settings thing to turn on ssh, set a password, set time zone etc. Do the get-apt upgrade or whatever the commands are (again, all over the Internet).
Then, do the one terminal command that's on the pihole site and it'll download and install pihole.
Remember the ip and password it gives you, then go to a browser (mobile is fine), type the IP in and find the nice straightforward GUI. Follow the couple of instructions on the pihole site regarding pihole and your router and you're all set.
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Well that was indeed a piece of piss.
I don’t have a keyboard so had to set up the pi headless using ssh which was a bit confusing because ssh is off by default.
Turns out you just have to make a file called “ssh” and put it on the memory card, this tells the os to enable it.Ran a few updates, changed the default password etc and got PiHole running in minutes. Really was easy peasy.
Haven’t changed any router settings though, just pointing certain devices DNS at the pi but it all works. I’m guessing you can point the routers DNS to it so everything just goes through it automatically?
It’s really helped the old iPad 2, which is too old to use ad blockers so that’s great.
The Pi lives on...
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I love the idea of a hardware ad-blocker for the home. I'm not very competent with command line stuff so just doing simple things takes ages and doesn't always work... Will try this regardless.
Just need to find my micro sd to sd adaptor...