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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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Home Assistant + OpenWRT + Pi-Hole on a Raspberry Pi 4 (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by alwaysconfused@lemmy.ca to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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My current setup is a TP-Link wireless extender. From that I have my own little network that connects my computer, wireless devices and a Raspberry Pi 4. The RPi4 runs the Home Assistant OS for my small network of lights and switches. The TP-Link extender does not have enough memory to support OpenWRT which means I am dependent on the proprietary android app to configure it.

I thought I could use the integrations in HA to add OpenWRT and Pi-Hole but it looks like those integrations are for communicating with instances and devices not within the HA operating system.

What I was hoping to accomplish was to run HA, OpenWRT and Pi-Hole on the same RPi4 device and re-use the TP-Link extender elsewhere in the house to serve ad-blocked internet that extends beyond my little network of devices.

Would running multiple services like this be too demanding for the RPi4? And if it is possible, where is a good place to start?

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[–] alwaysconfused@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

The actual router rented out by the service provider. I don't think they would be happy with me messing with their property.

I also lived somewhere else where I didn't have access to the main router so I use the extender as my personal network for file transfers, a few lights with a couple switches and my terrarium thermostat. If anything happens to the main router, I can just turn my extender into an access point and still have my personal network.

TP-Link requires an account to use my own extender which annoys me. Their app redirects my connection to my extender through their cloud service. It's not my VPN because I can still connect through the browser. Seems shadey and I don't like having the account already.