Hi all - please tell me if I’m doing this wrong:
My 12yo spends all day on YouTube shorts. I want to block it, but can only block YouTube entirely. Blocking for everyone would upset my 15yo, so I need per-client domain filtering.
That was easy on Pi-hole. But my Raspberry died and I heard praise for Adguard Home so now I run that as a Docker container.
- I can’t figure out how to block YouTube for only some devices. Is that not possible with Adguard? Claude gives me complicated nonsense; you can easily do better.
I want to ditch Adguard and go back to Pihole. The caveat is that I must let Pihole run the DHCP server, in order to get correct per-client blocking. That’s a pity, as I have a neat UniFi network set up.
- Can I get Pihole’s per-client blocking without Pihole as DHCP?
I don’t mind setting it all up in Pihole again because I know it works (it’s how I had it before the Raspberry died). But I would love to know if I am going about this the wrong way? Thank you!
If I keep UniFi DHCP then Pihole will not show individual clients, making it hard to put blocks on those individual clients.
In the past, the only solution I found was to let Pihole provide DHCP instead of UniFi.
Oh that’s just a config change needed, in your DHCP server you need to set the DNS server (option 6) to the Pihole/adguard IP.
Then you’ll have Unifi DHCP but with clients using pihole/adguard for DNS directly so you get per-client blocking and proper stats.