HI Chris, thanks for the vid! Just wondering if you include Adguard in your backup schedule? My Adguard backup is currently at 1.5GB and it is creating problems on Google Drive.
Chris, great video! I noticed in a few of your videos that your internal IP addresses are not "typical". Is there a video or discord where you discuss your reasoning on how you came up with your networking IP addresses? I have recently purchased a UDM Pro and Switch and some APs and have yet to set it up, but I wanted to do things right from the start and not have to go back and modify stuff. Is it simply because they are not common and it provides a little extra protection?
Those IPs are just part of the non-routable IP space. Since they are not routable, they can only be reached inside the local network. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network I don't have a specific video on it though.
Thanks for this great video again. I noticed in some of your other videos your adguard is blocking like 30% of the DNS queries. I have mine set up as a whole house protection where I put the first DNS server as the adguard server on my router. It's been a few weeks now and I'm only getting about 2% blocked. I added extra lists, totalling about 200,000. Is 2% reasonable?
That depends on what you are doing on your network. My Roku devices make about a zillion calls per day to their analytics site and those are all blocked. I'm guessing that 28% of those 30% are Roku. I recently added one of those domains to the Disallowed Domains section which blocks it entirely and removes it from logging, etc. This may drastically reduce the total percentage blocked if it also removes that domain from stats. As of right now, I am at 21% blocked.
Hi Chris. Great video You are showing that you use youre Unifi router IP as private reverse DNS server. Is the router on the same lan as youre Home assistant? I have mine on a different vlan and it doesn't seem to update the hostnames. (I have an Egderouter 4, and DHCP dns is pointing to my Adguard IP, so the filtering is working.)
Hey Jesper. To be honest, I hadn't used that feature until I saw it while making the video. Itr may have snuck in one of the updates. My router is on the same subnet. Not everything is resolving though. I have 4 devices showing as being resolved by rDNS and the rest by ARP. I don't think the revers DNS lookup is working that well. It's mostly ARP that is doing the work.
Hi. Great video as always! I am running the Add on for a couple of hours now on my HA and it seems to work good across all my connected devices. However, there is also an integration called Adguard and with this you ars suppose to be able to control and get sensors from the addon but when I try to install the integration I get a window where it asks for "Host", "Port", "Username" and "Password"... I just can't figure out what to put in it to get it to work!! Please can you check this integration? BR // Fredrik
Mine was added automatically (it discovered it). On my pi where I run the second instance, I tried adding the integration and I am running into the same issue. I'll keep researching and working to figure it out.
Within Adguard, how or if there is, to be able to configure parental control? before if I could see this section in Adguard now no, I would like a little help thanks
Hi. Thanks for the video. I have it all set up similarly to yours up to the unify bit coz I don't have unify (I have TP-Link router). I am able to connect to tailscale using 4G to my homeassistant but seems that it is not using the AdGuard to filter the ads. I tried to set the Global Name Server and turn on the override local DNS, then I could not even browse. Is there any specific step that I missed? Thanks
Make sure you are using the nameserver of your AdGuard instance in the Global Nameservers section. Needs to be an IP on your local network. It's possible that you also need to set up Subnets and Exit Node for one of the hosts on your network that is running Tailscale.
I installed it and it's up and running but I notice that the google ads are not blocking. When I have adblocker extension it is really block. Then I tried this AdGuard on my server and it's not totally blocking. Is there a way to make it block like the typical adblocker extension? Are there any specific DNS filter that I need to use?
Thanks for the video chris. Installed it and got it up and running. But instead of you having different clients showing I just have one and that is my routers ip. So i figure I lack some settings, would be greatful if you could point me in the right direction.
You need to make sure that whatever is providing DNS for your internal clients is set to use AdGuard for its DNS server. You'll have to set the DHCP settings on your router (most likely) to issue the AdGuard server's IP address for DNS.
@@mostlychris thanks for the reply. From what i found my router does not allow me to config this. But im soon switching to unifi so then I will get it working, for now I just add the adguard dns server manually to the clients i need to list.
It won't work with embeded ads like those. I don't know of anything that will work on those. I thought about mentioning this point before and after I filmed/edited the video. Wish I'd written it down so I could answer what will probably be a common question.
Hey. Very nice and detailed video. I have also this set up on my Home Assistant for a good while. Can someone advise me if it's possible to get parental settings for internal network devices using this? I believe there is option for that on their interface as long as its not setup as add on in Home assistant. We have few smallies that get up early in the morning and like to watch TV. I know I can block individual services as per device or global. But that is a bit inconvenient to be changing on daily basis. Can some one suggest any workaround? (And yes, I know it's easy to take away remote from kids :) but that's not why I built Home Assistant in the house :) Thank you.
I'm not sure that you can do what you are asking with this setup. You could set up a filtered AdGuard server and have those devices use that only but that is also inconvenient. There is a parental filter in the settings though. Not sure if that is what you are asking about though.
Btw, a manual is better than automatic in everything but a transmission in an automobile. I can potentially do anything you can do in your home. Enjoy your home. If you have cameras connected to the internet, in anyway (like attached to a device with internet access) someone is watching or has seen the video. Enjoy your future. Stop using things you do not understand. Stop being naive humans. I am a Watcher. 😶
Hi there , please make a tutorial video about how we can install & configure both pi-hole & AdGuard home at the same time on ubuntu or raspberry pi ? thnx
@@Martin-ot7xj You can't run them on the same interface/IP because they would be fighting for the ports. You could run them together on the same device if they used different interfaces OR different ports. If you used different ports, you'd have to tell your client devices to use something other than default DNS ports and that would be hard to maintain.
Hello Chris, I can't find a way to add custom DNS server in Google Home app for my Nest Wifi router. It asks for a valid IPv6 address buy I can't find this anywhere.... Any idea?
@@mostlychris I deactivated IPv6 in the Google Home network configuration and then I could set my Home Assistant IP address into the IPv4 field without Google App forcing me to enter an IPv6 address. Stats are coming in now. I'm impatient to get further analysis over what is blocked with AdGuard Home!
@@DonParlor Glad you got it working now! You might see some surprises on what is being blocked. LOTS of tracking stuff from my smart speakers and media players show up in my blocked stats.
@@mostlychris My next questions will certainly be how to interpret what is being blocked and what DNS Block list to use and which one I should add. I installed the ones your recommended: AdGuard DNS filter, Online Malicious URL Blocklist, The Big List of Hacked Malware Web Sites. Anything else that deserve mention?
@@DonParlor That's all I've used. It really is personal preference. I've also individually whitelisted a few that were in the block lists because I wanted them to resolve to the source.
@@zachmoir check whether your router has dns server settings enabled and configured correctly like the ip address(web address) of adguard home to your dns server address in your router.
@@AmmarMazhar72 I figured it out I believe, I only had 1 DNS server IP address though so I used the same one for both slots. Is that the right way to do it?
I don't get it, it says it's working, shows clients connected but theres no blocking going on, what gives? It shows 0 blocked queries all around. I use HA through duckdns, does this matter? Do I need to do port forwarding or something? And if so, to which ip/port
Do you have your DHCP server set to point all DNS to the AdGuard IP address? If not, it won't do anything. Your devices on your network will use whatever DNS server(s) are given to them by the DHCP server. If you have static IPs assigned to devices, you will have to set static DNS server(s) for them as well.
@@mostlychris so I have to point my router default dns to the dns addresses from AdGuard initial config or similar ad-blocking dns server. Problem is, my router won't let me do that, dns is grayed-out. I guess one other option would be to let AdGuard be the dhcp server. Thank you for your reply.
@@chrisrosenkreuz23 Yes, you do have to point to AdGuard or it'll just sit there and do nothing. Also, about your router settings--that sucks. What router is it?
Thank you for actually explaining what each setting does, it helps a lot for a newbie like me 😊
Installed and running, thanks
Great!
HI Chris, thanks for the vid! Just wondering if you include Adguard in your backup schedule? My Adguard backup is currently at 1.5GB and it is creating problems on Google Drive.
Chris, great video! I noticed in a few of your videos that your internal IP addresses are not "typical". Is there a video or discord where you discuss your reasoning on how you came up with your networking IP addresses? I have recently purchased a UDM Pro and Switch and some APs and have yet to set it up, but I wanted to do things right from the start and not have to go back and modify stuff. Is it simply because they are not common and it provides a little extra protection?
Those IPs are just part of the non-routable IP space. Since they are not routable, they can only be reached inside the local network. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network I don't have a specific video on it though.
I take it you pay for the AdGuard Home service, what level do you buy for example and you are running two instances is that covered with AdGuard Home?
Does it support conditional forwarding to another internal DNS Server?
in tplink archer ax73 work ?
Thanks for this great video again. I noticed in some of your other videos your adguard is blocking like 30% of the DNS queries. I have mine set up as a whole house protection where I put the first DNS server as the adguard server on my router. It's been a few weeks now and I'm only getting about 2% blocked. I added extra lists, totalling about 200,000. Is 2% reasonable?
That depends on what you are doing on your network. My Roku devices make about a zillion calls per day to their analytics site and those are all blocked. I'm guessing that 28% of those 30% are Roku. I recently added one of those domains to the Disallowed Domains section which blocks it entirely and removes it from logging, etc. This may drastically reduce the total percentage blocked if it also removes that domain from stats. As of right now, I am at 21% blocked.
great video Chris thanks, i have made a couple changes to mine
Thanks! What changes?
@@mostlychris i added the browser security web service and added the upstream servers you are using.
Nice. Are the default settings sufficient for average use or are there a bunch of setting to make? Looking for sort of plug and play. Thanks
Default settings will work to get you up and running. Just make sure your upstream servers are set and working.
Hi Chris. Great video You are showing that you use youre Unifi router IP as private reverse DNS server.
Is the router on the same lan as youre Home assistant? I have mine on a different vlan and it doesn't seem to update the hostnames. (I have an Egderouter 4, and DHCP dns is pointing to my Adguard IP, so the filtering is working.)
Hey Jesper. To be honest, I hadn't used that feature until I saw it while making the video. Itr may have snuck in one of the updates. My router is on the same subnet. Not everything is resolving though. I have 4 devices showing as being resolved by rDNS and the rest by ARP. I don't think the revers DNS lookup is working that well. It's mostly ARP that is doing the work.
Hi. Great video as always! I am running the Add on for a couple of hours now on my HA and it seems to work good across all my connected devices. However, there is also an integration called Adguard and with this you ars suppose to be able to control and get sensors from the addon but when I try to install the integration I get a window where it asks for "Host", "Port", "Username" and "Password"... I just can't figure out what to put in it to get it to work!! Please can you check this integration? BR // Fredrik
Mine was added automatically (it discovered it). On my pi where I run the second instance, I tried adding the integration and I am running into the same issue. I'll keep researching and working to figure it out.
Within Adguard, how or if there is, to be able to configure parental control? before if I could see this section in Adguard now no, I would like a little help thanks
There is different filtering you can apply using lists. There is a parental control web service under Settings->General.
Hi. Thanks for the video. I have it all set up similarly to yours up to the unify bit coz I don't have unify (I have TP-Link router). I am able to connect to tailscale using 4G to my homeassistant but seems that it is not using the AdGuard to filter the ads. I tried to set the Global Name Server and turn on the override local DNS, then I could not even browse. Is there any specific step that I missed? Thanks
Make sure you are using the nameserver of your AdGuard instance in the Global Nameservers section. Needs to be an IP on your local network. It's possible that you also need to set up Subnets and Exit Node for one of the hosts on your network that is running Tailscale.
I installed it and it's up and running but I notice that the google ads are not blocking. When I have adblocker extension it is really block. Then I tried this AdGuard on my server and it's not totally blocking. Is there a way to make it block like the typical adblocker extension? Are there any specific DNS filter that I need to use?
Go and check which ads are extension blocking, than add the same to adguard home
does this work for blocking ads on streaming device like rhoku/ apple tv when using youtube app?
It doesn't as far as I'm aware.
Thanks for the video chris. Installed it and got it up and running. But instead of you having different clients showing I just have one and that is my routers ip. So i figure I lack some settings, would be greatful if you could point me in the right direction.
You need to make sure that whatever is providing DNS for your internal clients is set to use AdGuard for its DNS server. You'll have to set the DHCP settings on your router (most likely) to issue the AdGuard server's IP address for DNS.
@@mostlychris thanks for the reply. From what i found my router does not allow me to config this. But im soon switching to unifi so then I will get it working, for now I just add the adguard dns server manually to the clients i need to list.
That's a sad router :) Unifi is awesome. I have used it for years without issues. It *just* works.
Does this work for video adds as well? (TH-cam, Twitch, ETC…)
It won't work with embeded ads like those. I don't know of anything that will work on those. I thought about mentioning this point before and after I filmed/edited the video. Wish I'd written it down so I could answer what will probably be a common question.
When installing in HA it asks for host, port, username en pass, can you help me?Thanks.
Can you send me a screenshot in discord?
Hey. Very nice and detailed video. I have also this set up on my Home Assistant for a good while. Can someone advise me if it's possible to get parental settings for internal network devices using this? I believe there is option for that on their interface as long as its not setup as add on in Home assistant. We have few smallies that get up early in the morning and like to watch TV. I know I can block individual services as per device or global. But that is a bit inconvenient to be changing on daily basis. Can some one suggest any workaround? (And yes, I know it's easy to take away remote from kids :) but that's not why I built Home Assistant in the house :) Thank you.
I'm not sure that you can do what you are asking with this setup. You could set up a filtered AdGuard server and have those devices use that only but that is also inconvenient. There is a parental filter in the settings though. Not sure if that is what you are asking about though.
Btw, a manual is better than automatic in everything but a transmission in an automobile.
I can potentially do anything you can do in your home. Enjoy your home.
If you have cameras connected to the internet, in anyway (like attached to a device with internet access) someone is watching or has seen the video. Enjoy your future.
Stop using things you do not understand.
Stop being naive humans. I am a Watcher. 😶
Hi there , please make a tutorial video about how we can install & configure both pi-hole & AdGuard home at the same time on ubuntu or raspberry pi ? thnx
Is there a reason you would want to run both at the same time?
@@mostlychris just i want to know is it possible to have both at the same time ?? Or not ?
@@Martin-ot7xj You can't run them on the same interface/IP because they would be fighting for the ports. You could run them together on the same device if they used different interfaces OR different ports. If you used different ports, you'd have to tell your client devices to use something other than default DNS ports and that would be hard to maintain.
@@mostlychris thankyou , i don't want to run at the same time, just i want to install & configure both on ubuntu . thnx
Hello Chris, I can't find a way to add custom DNS server in Google Home app for my Nest Wifi router. It asks for a valid IPv6 address buy I can't find this anywhere.... Any idea?
Unfortunately I have no experience with these. It also should be IPv4 not IPv6 unless you are specifically using IPv6 in your network.
@@mostlychris I deactivated IPv6 in the Google Home network configuration and then I could set my Home Assistant IP address into the IPv4 field without Google App forcing me to enter an IPv6 address. Stats are coming in now. I'm impatient to get further analysis over what is blocked with AdGuard Home!
@@DonParlor Glad you got it working now! You might see some surprises on what is being blocked. LOTS of tracking stuff from my smart speakers and media players show up in my blocked stats.
@@mostlychris My next questions will certainly be how to interpret what is being blocked and what DNS Block list to use and which one I should add. I installed the ones your recommended: AdGuard DNS filter, Online Malicious URL Blocklist, The Big List of Hacked Malware Web Sites. Anything else that deserve mention?
@@DonParlor That's all I've used. It really is personal preference. I've also individually whitelisted a few that were in the block lists because I wanted them to resolve to the source.
Is it open source? Great video about Adguard though!
Thanks.
what is this home assistant, is it on linux or windows ??
www.home-assistant.io. You can install it on a number of platforms. The website has info on that.
Installed this today on my parents pc.
Are you running it as a plug in or for the whole network?
@@mostlychris running it as a plug in on parents but my router has it built in so I am using that. I was running pihole as a docker In unraid.
How long will it take to sync DNS servers with our network/router?
I have the same question, did you end up figuring this out?
@@zachmoir yes I did, if you do everything correctly it will take 1-3 minutes.
@@zachmoir check whether your router has dns server settings enabled and configured correctly like the ip address(web address) of adguard home to your dns server address in your router.
@@AmmarMazhar72 That's where I think I messed it up. I have a netgear router. I'll research and experiment some more, thanks!
@@AmmarMazhar72 I figured it out I believe, I only had 1 DNS server IP address though so I used the same one for both slots. Is that the right way to do it?
I don't get it, it says it's working, shows clients connected but theres no blocking going on, what gives?
It shows 0 blocked queries all around. I use HA through duckdns, does this matter? Do I need to do port forwarding or something? And if so, to which ip/port
Do you have your DHCP server set to point all DNS to the AdGuard IP address? If not, it won't do anything. Your devices on your network will use whatever DNS server(s) are given to them by the DHCP server. If you have static IPs assigned to devices, you will have to set static DNS server(s) for them as well.
@@mostlychris so I have to point my router default dns to the dns addresses from AdGuard initial config or similar ad-blocking dns server. Problem is, my router won't let me do that, dns is grayed-out. I guess one other option would be to let AdGuard be the dhcp server. Thank you for your reply.
@@chrisrosenkreuz23 Yes, you do have to point to AdGuard or it'll just sit there and do nothing. Also, about your router settings--that sucks. What router is it?
Can you make a video for Android devices
Android devices doing.....?
Adgauard
your video taught nothing around principles and what and why from the perspective of a first timer learning what to do