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Is there a way to quickly disable/re-enable pihole for the network? With AdGuard DNS or uBlock Origin I still get into situations where occasionally they brea

• city41 6y ago
  You can navigate to the admin console (easily done on any machine on your network) and disable it for a certain amount of time very easily https://i.imgur.com/K6VgV2G.png https://i.imgur.com/K6VgV2G.png Note this is from pihole 4.3, but I can't image 5 would remove this feature.
• kylegordon 6y ago
  The Web UI has a Disable button, and also quick options for permanent, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 5 minutes, custom, etc. I think there's also an API as well. I can toggle it via Alexa and Home-Assistant. It's a feature that's been around for 2 years or more
  • xref 6y ago
    “Alexa, shut pihole” Thanks for the tip, I don’t have any home assistants but this would be the first integration I’d set up
  • domoritz 6y ago
    I just noticed that the home assistant addon has been deprecated: https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-pi-hole https://github.com/hassio-addons/addon-pi-hole. I hope that it comes back eventually.
    • GekkePrutser 6y ago
      They recommend the AdGuard Home one now... That's why they have replaced it. I also don't like it as AdGuard is a commercial company, and I have zero need for the added features like parental control. But I don't really care, I run all the dockers that have nothing to do with home assistant outside of hassio anyway.
      • dnzm 6y ago
        To be fair, AdGuard Home is an open source project under GPL, so there's that.
        • GekkePrutser 6y ago
          I know. But still I would prefer something a non-profit or volunteer-driven project over one from a for-profit company. Especially in the adblocking business where investor concerns are very likely not going to be aligned with consumer interests. It's not about it being free, I support several free open source projects with donations. I just don't like the clashing interests. For me that means Firefox, uBlock Origin and pihole (though I ran dnsmasq myself for a while, I like what they've made of pihole now, it's come a long way!)
• nirav72 6y ago
  there is a chrome extension that quickly let's you disable pihole blocking with 1-click. default is 10 minutes. But you can set a custom time in the toolbar popup.
  • wnevets 6y ago
    >there is a chrome extension oh, good to know! This concerned has stopped me from going out of way to setup pihole
• arthurfm 6y ago
  > Is there a way to quickly disable/re-enable pihole for the network? Bookmark the following URL http://pi.hole/admin/api.php?disable=120&auth=PWHASH Replace PWHASH with the value of your WEBPASSWORD in setupVars.conf cat /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf | grep 'WEBPASSWORD=' | cut -c13- and '120' with the number of seconds you want to disable the Pi-hole filtering for.
  • andrei_says_ 6y ago
    Thank you, I’ve been needing to do this frequently.
    • theshrike79 6y ago
      What kind of sites, if you don't mind sharing? I've been using pi-hole for 4 years now and I can remember two situations when I had to disable it - and one of those was cloudflare's fault (PS4 cloud saves don't work with 1.1.1.1 DNS)
      • Tepix 6y ago
        If you download minecraft mods they are often hosted behind some forced ad-showing website (ad-fly or something). That can be a problem with pi-hole.
      • oarsinsync 6y ago
        I needed to do this recently for eflorist.co.uk. I was unable to complete checkout without disabling pihole.
      • andrei_says_ 6y ago
        Working from home - running reports on google analytics and other marketing tools :)
  • gamedna 6y ago
    Do you know if its possible to disable pihole only for the client requesting this, or a specific ip?