Fox Corp. is making a dramatic move to expand its streaming footprint, unveiling with plans to buy Roku in a deal that values the streaming platform at $22 billion.
Roku, in my experience, likes to break apps every 3 months to force you to reconnect and reinstall them, so pihole works, I’ve had one for years, but it didn’t work very well for Roku, unless adblocking is your one and only concern and tracking doesn’t matter to you. I assume it’s the window where they can still get fine-detail logs.
This might be out of date info; I have had mine off the internet for years at this point, but it’s because of that crap.
very similar to my dietpi running on a low-power sff, except i use the hotspot app in dietpi and leave the guest ssid on the main router for stuff i dont want going through the pihole|adguard home (but don’t want on the main network)
Maybe a dumb question… But what’s the point of the guest network? Separation of concerns? Isolating data? Why not just run Pihole on everything in one network?
I have my Roku on my main wifi network and it’s the top blocked device. I haven’t considered moving it to a guest network. I try to keep it unplugged but maybe I’ll just get rid of it now.
PiHole can break some funtionality for your main computers. This is especially sensitive if you work from home. You can opt for PiHole on your PC via manual IP setting but many IoT devices only use DHCP.
We had a few Roku left, but now we are going to finish our.transition to Nvidia Shields.
Curious if you can still use Roku’s streaming channels with PiHole blocking its domains? I’ve gotta set this up
Roku, in my experience, likes to break apps every 3 months to force you to reconnect and reinstall them, so pihole works, I’ve had one for years, but it didn’t work very well for Roku, unless adblocking is your one and only concern and tracking doesn’t matter to you. I assume it’s the window where they can still get fine-detail logs.
This might be out of date info; I have had mine off the internet for years at this point, but it’s because of that crap.
You can add libraries to pihole that focus on blocking tracking urls, so you can easily expand the functionality beyond ad serving URLs.
very similar to my dietpi running on a low-power sff, except i use the hotspot app in dietpi and leave the guest ssid on the main router for stuff i dont want going through the pihole|adguard home (but don’t want on the main network)
Maybe a dumb question… But what’s the point of the guest network? Separation of concerns? Isolating data? Why not just run Pihole on everything in one network?
I have my Roku on my main wifi network and it’s the top blocked device. I haven’t considered moving it to a guest network. I try to keep it unplugged but maybe I’ll just get rid of it now.
PiHole can break some funtionality for your main computers. This is especially sensitive if you work from home. You can opt for PiHole on your PC via manual IP setting but many IoT devices only use DHCP.
We had a few Roku left, but now we are going to finish our.transition to Nvidia Shields.