October 2019

Ban ads for your devices with Pi-Hole

With Pi-Hole you can get rid of Ads for all your devices within your local network. It works, like Ad-Away for Android, as DNS-Filter. Domains on downloadable Blacklists are blocked and overmore a Pi-Hole works as gateway to a DNS-Server of you choice (e.g. from Digital Courage). Pi-Hole is slick and comes with a neat webinterface. To install simply type on your Raspbian or even Debian: After the installation make sure to make your devices find Pi-Hole as DNS-Server within the LAN. This can be done in the settings of your router. Local DNS Server with unbound If you want...

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Kodi Media Centre with Odroid C2

The Raspberry Pi 3s Ethernet Port is only capable of 100 MBit/s and is furthermore connected to the USB2.0 Chip. For comfortably browsing through Photos of 5 to 7 MB from my mediaserver this is not enough speed. The Odroid C2 comes with a Gigabit Ethernet connection and “more power under the hood” (as we say in Germany ;). It also provideds a much faster Emmc Slot compared to the mini-sd-card of the Pi. Coreelec is a great KODI distribution for the Odroid C2 which is still being maintained unlike LibreElec for the Odroid C2. Download the tar package and...

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