And that’s it, you should now be able to enter the Pi-Hole GUI (pi.hole) and adjust any desired parameters.īut, the problem is that you won’t be able to see the clients individually in the Pi-Hole Dashboard, instead it will be a single IP, that of the router, as in my case, it’s 192.168.152.1. ![]() Here, enter the DNS option which should be set to Automatic (8.8.8.8) by default and select Custom: at this point, enter the IP address of Pi-Hole on the Primary server and then tap on Save. ![]() To do this, enter the Google WiFi app, tap on the Config icon and from the Settings, tap on Network and General followed by tapping on the Advanced networking. After that’s done, you need to install Pi-Hole using SSH (again, check the guide for instructions) and make Pi-Hole your DNS server. Here, click on Advanced networking and select DHCP IP reservations: tap on the green Plus sign, select the raspberrypi from the list and click next, followed by selecting the preferred IP address.Ģ. Afterwards, return to the Dashboard and select the Config icon (the third from the top) and under Settings, click on Network and General. Since you don’t want the Google WiFi to change the IP address of the Pi-Hole, you will have to create a static IP address for the Raspberry Pi and to do so, you will need to identify the assigned IP address of the device in the Google WiFi app: from the Dashboard, click on Devices, identify the raspberrypi client and tap on it to see the designated IP address (under Details). Option 1: DHCP enabled on Google WiFi, DHCP disabled on Pi Hole.ġ. So, for now, we’re going to leave DHCP enabled on the Google WiFi. Note: It’s important to know that you can’t disable DHCP on the Google WiFi, well, you can, if you set it to Bridge Mode, but this is not an option if you have more than one unit installed since the mesh capabilities will be disabled. I am not going to get in detail on how to install Raspbian on an SD card since I already explored the needed steps in the “Should you use Pi-Hole for blocking ads? (using a Raspberry Pi 4)” article, but there are small adjustments that you need to do before installing Pi-Hole. The developers did a great job with the Pi-Hole GUI, so the process is very simple and intuitive, but it’s not that simple to get to this point since you will have to install Raspbian on a microSD card which you will then insert in a Raspberry Pi and then make the necessary adjustments to make sure that the router will play nicely with Pi-Hole. Instead, you will have to block a certain category of ads globally and whitelist those ads that you deem unobtrusive (this is where the browser-based ad-blockers have the upper hand). This can help speed up the website loading time (since the ads are no longer downloaded), but it will leave a blank space in the place of the ads and you won’t be able to block the ads at a website level. Taking into consideration the recent news that the Chromium-based browsers (may soon include Edge) will have a built-in ad-blocking engine, therefore taking away this role from the ad-block extensions, it’s clear that Google desires to select which ads will be filtered and which will go through for you, so, if the ad-blocker extensions may become a thing of the past (even though I seriously doubt it), there is always the reliable Pi-Hole to block the annoying ads at the DNS level. ![]() For this reason, I decided to try and run Pi-Hole installed on a Raspberry Pi 4 alongside my Google WiFi system and see if the search engine giant has made this process more difficult than it needed to be or if everything is silky smooth (unfortunately, it’s the former). If you got charmed by the Google WiFi and you got a system installed in your home, you may notice that the simplicity came at a cost since the app is very limited in terms of features and, if you want to run some advanced applications, it can become unnecessarily harder than with some traditional routers. This happened due to the manufacturer’s somehow perfect understanding of what its audience needed, which was a set of small minimalist devices which would be very easy to set up and would offer a stable network over a long period of time. It has been about three years after Google started conquering the home-suitable networking market with its Google WiFi and it’s clear that it has aged like a fine wine since it is still being regarded as one of the best dual-band WiFi systems available right now.
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