u/Wrong-Hurry2134

Hi all, for context live in the UK running coax gig1 by Virgin Media on their hub 5.

I’ve set up PiHole on an old mini pc, I have disabled the DHCP on the Hub 5 and revered the IP address of the mini PC as it doesn’t allow for much tinkering and routed it through PiHole instead. This all runs absolutely fine for about 24hours then it just cuts off my WiFi completely and the only way to get it back is a factory reset so it enables DHCP again.

Anyone faced this issue as well, if so what was your fix?

P.s I’m very new to this stuff, currently building a mini home lab and learning as I go.

UPDATE

I think I have found the route cause of this issue. In the PiHole container within Promox the IPv4 was set to DHCP and not static, after changing that to static and inputting the gateway as my ISP router I then made sure I amended the settings in Pihole itself to have a starting range greater than my Pihole IP. Hopefully this has fixed the issue.

Hello all,

This one is reaching out to the experts in this field!

I’ve ended up down the vast rabbit hole of smart home builds.

My vision is as followed…

- Smart lighting throughout, automated & smart switches
- Audio throughout the home, ideally automated for different scenarios ie. Cleaning around the home and the music following you into rooms.
- Smart thermostat controls
- Smart blind/curtains control again on automations
- Smart plug sockets throughout the home that allow automation
- Motion/presence sensors
- Using Home assistant to pair everything together but I’m hoping you can access tools on there that can show energy usage, internet data (speeds etc), but can you also implement smart learning for example over time learns when you use certain lights, blinds etc in the house that recommends adjusting your automations to save on energy etc?

I would like some advise on all the above from recommended brands, most effective way of setting it all up, can I just use a basic 1gb broadband package to achieve smooth performance all around or will I need to consider building a small server with switches etc?

Just looking for good honest advise, much appreciated.