jflow / homebridge-pihole

Pihole switch for Homebridge

Homebridge Pi-hole

Pi-hole plugin for Homebridge

Requirements

• Homebridge - HomeKit support for the impatient
• Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements

Installation

1. Install this plugin npm install -g homebridge-pihole
2. Update your configuration file. See sample-config.json in this repository for a sample.

See the Pi-hole installation section for more details.

Configuration

There are only three required options:

• name Accessory name, defautl is Pihole.
• auth Pi-hole auth token.
• host Pi-hole host, default is localhost.

See the sample-config.json file to see an example of working accessory config.

How to get a Pi-hole authentication token

1. Login into your Pi-hole Admin Console.
2. Navigate to the Settings page and then to the API / Web interface tab.
3. At the bottom of the page click on the Show API Token button, a popup window will ask for confirmation, go ahead and click on Yes, show API token.
4. A new window will open showing a QR code, copy the Raw API Token below the QR code.
5. Paste your API token in the homebridge configuration file.

Licence

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2019

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