Setting up a Pi-hole

Privacy and security hardening for your home network

Posted by Benedek on November 04, 2025

After years of putting it off, I finally got around to setting up a Pi-hole. This is not going to be an in-depth guide, just a quick and dirty set of pointers, because others already did the heavy lifting (for the benefit of all of us).

What you'll need:

Raspberry Pi Zero 2W Starter Set

Mininum 4 GB MicroSD card (I used a 16 GB one)

Simplest Pi-hole tutorial (YouTube)

Optional:

Random Ethernet-USB adapter

USB (female) to Micro USB (male) adapter

I found that the Wi-Fi-adapter (not the connection) was unstable (even while sitting next to the router) - when it connected in the first place. And it didn't even connect roughly 50% of the time after a restart, but YMMV.

When using an ethernet connection, Wi-Fi can be disabled with the following command (connect through SSH): sudo rfkill block wifi