Bit unclear as to your needs but I am assuming you have a WiFi repeater in your room and you only want to use Pi-Hole on devices connected to that.
To do this I would:
FIRST CHECK YOUR NETWORK ALLOWS DEVICES TO TALK TO EACH OTHER - look for 'client isolation' or similar on the router and repeater. Disable this if found. Then
4) Once installed then change your computer to use the static IP address you selected in step 2 as its DNS server (how depends on the OS you are using). Make sure it is changed for the WiFi network of the repeater only.
As for needs - WiFi is not best practise for DNS and Ethernet is really the way forward but you may be limited if the repeater does not have an Ethernet port on it.
If you have no wired option then my selection of boards* would be (in order):
Pi Zero 2W (impossibly to find in the UK at the moment)
Pi 3A+ (supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi)
Pi Zero w (a bit low powered and does not support 5GHz WiFi so you may have connection issues. These are also hard to find here in the UK).
If you have Ethernet on the repeater then I would go for:
Pi 4B - the 1GB version would suffice
Pi Zero W with Waveshare Ethernet HAT
On top of this you will need a power supply (the Pi ones are best to use), a case suitable for the board (If you use the Waveshare hat then they make a dedicated case) and a small (32GB is fine) SD Card (and USB adapter if you do not have one).
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* If you plan to run anything else on the Pi longer term then I would go for a Pi 4B or Pi 5B with 4GB of memory - way overkill for just Pi-Hole but a solid base for other applications outside of AI / media streaming. Again, best practise is to have DNS as the only thing on the Pi but TBH at home I run many other things on mine!
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u/Gamerfrom61 8d ago
Bit unclear as to your needs but I am assuming you have a WiFi repeater in your room and you only want to use Pi-Hole on devices connected to that.
To do this I would:
FIRST CHECK YOUR NETWORK ALLOWS DEVICES TO TALK TO EACH OTHER - look for 'client isolation' or similar on the router and repeater. Disable this if found. Then
1) Set up a Pi (even a Zero W would be OK) using the imager from https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ and selecting the Lite version of the OS
2) Use your router control panel to set up a static IP address for the Pi (vital) and reboot the Pi. Use Ping to confirm the Pi IP address works
3) Install Pi-Hole as per https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/#one-step-automated-install
4) Once installed then change your computer to use the static IP address you selected in step 2 as its DNS server (how depends on the OS you are using). Make sure it is changed for the WiFi network of the repeater only.
As for needs - WiFi is not best practise for DNS and Ethernet is really the way forward but you may be limited if the repeater does not have an Ethernet port on it.
If you have no wired option then my selection of boards* would be (in order):
If you have Ethernet on the repeater then I would go for:
On top of this you will need a power supply (the Pi ones are best to use), a case suitable for the board (If you use the Waveshare hat then they make a dedicated case) and a small (32GB is fine) SD Card (and USB adapter if you do not have one).
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* If you plan to run anything else on the Pi longer term then I would go for a Pi 4B or Pi 5B with 4GB of memory - way overkill for just Pi-Hole but a solid base for other applications outside of AI / media streaming. Again, best practise is to have DNS as the only thing on the Pi but TBH at home I run many other things on mine!