Both AdGuard Home and Pi-hole are free and open source, and both do pretty well much the same as far as functionality goes. They can also both be installed natively or as a docker container image, and will run on Raspberry Pi’s or larger hardware.

The differences really come with AdGuard Home’s UI looking a touch more modern and less cluttered, and supposedly AdGuard Home has additional functionality already included, where that must be installed additionally for Pi-hole.

So I managed to get up and running quite quickly with AdGuard Home by following DB Tech’s video. One thing that tripped me up was that the container would not start, and reported a clash on port 53 (the DNS port). But one of the commenters on the video, Wesley O’Brien, suggested a solution which worked perfectly for me. I set my router’s DHCP server to provide the IP of my AdGuard Home server as the DNS, and now all devices throughout the home network are using it. Speed tests and website page loading appears unaffected (not slower, anyway).

See https://youtu.be/u9ylq5Gry_A

#technology #opensource #adguardhome #pihole #trackers

  • @const_void
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    12 years ago

    Is this completely open source? Pretty sure AdGuard is a for profit company.

    • @Decentralizer
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      42 years ago

      It is open source, they have products in desktop, android and iOS what cost money. The adguard home is open source tho. Works even on some routers

    • GadgeteerZAOP
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      22 years ago

      This is AdGuard Home self-hosted, not AdGuard which is the commercial offering. Yes, all code is open source.