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I hope this is the right place to put this..I want to use pi-hole (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to use pi-hole and it comes highly recommended to use raspberry pi to cover the house and have an always on capability. I started looking at just starter packages at Amazon and they don't come with a monitor, which it looks like you need. How do I do this? I want a raspberry pi to run pi-hole to protect my house.

Edit: Thank you all so much for the tips and all the different ways to get this up and going , I am officially on my pi-hole journey!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need it persistently hooked up to a monitor. It can make the setup process easier (though there are ways to set up the initial image to immediately be configurable over the network), but it will run fine after that without one.

What you probably will want is a video cable. The raspberry pi 4b has two micro HDMI ports, so you would most commonly hook it up to a monitor or display with a micro HDMI to HDMI cable. If you want a different model I can double check (I'm not sure if they used different outputs on earlier ones).