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Looking at products like Gryphon or Circle, I feel like this should be pretty easy to do self-hosted. It's just firewall rules right? Anyone know of a good open source/self-host product I can do this? A phone app is not a requirement. A web interface is fine.

I'm kind of trying right now with PiHole and cron jobs but something prettier and more comprehensive would be nice.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Adguard home maybe?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I would second Adguard Home. They have a lot of presets for blocking online services. You can add persistent clients, which can be identified with MAC/IP, select the presets you want to disable, and also have custom block/access rules for those clients.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s your problem with PiHole? Why do you need Cron jobs? I’m quite happy with PiHole. If you like, I can try to help you with some questions there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cron jobs are mainly for enabling and disabling internet access by mac address on a schedule. I also like that these commercial products force search to google or duckduckgo safe search, and youtube to youtube restricted on a per user basis (which really could be done by mac address). I mean I can prob do all this with firewall rules myself. But a slick web interface would be cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Pi-Hole you can define groups and add devices to them and then assign block lists to those groups. I'm not sure if all your use cases are covered. Maybe you can check their discourse to see if others have found a decent way. The web interface is quite nice from my point of view.

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/block-internet-access-at-certain-times/12036

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

Didn't know there was a discourse. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody's a child in my home. But I do block porn and malware on a DNS level. I use Knot Resolver with a custom RPZ blocklist curated from multiple sources which self-update weekly. I don't use PiHole or Adguard Home because they seem too unnecessarily heavy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would anyone block porn for their own devices

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because porn's a massive waste of time, energy and bandwidth. I mean there are various obvious reasons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok. So here's the real deal. I'm addicted to porn. I'm a real life coomer

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

You might be able to create a cool setup with Adguard home or pihole and home assistant.

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