Good night, I have been gifted a RPi 4B 8GB, and can finally give openwrt a try, I'm current running my ISP modem/router and I'm on a 4G connection (max 60/20Mbps).
I already have a USB to ethernet adapter, since I don't have any VLAN capable switch.
Previously I was running pihole on an older RPi 3B, but given current electricity prices (0.30€/kWh), I would love to be able to run everything on the new 4B(and because it's an 8GB model, so plenty of RAM). I have read a bit about the openwrt adblock, but it seems like it's not as polished, so I would like to know if there is a way to run pihole and openwrt on the same device.
Next question, should I go for ext4 or squashfs filesystem? Any drawbacks from using squashfs?
I'm planning on buying a ubiquiti U6 Lite, since it's one of the cheapest WiFi 6 APs(around 110€ after shipping), would it be possible to also run the unifi controller within openwrt, at least for a couple months, till openwrt support matures for the U6 Lite?
Have you looked at adguardhome. I switched over to that after using pi-hole and rather like it. I think that the version in the latest openwrt is broken but it is easy to download the latest and install manually. I was running openwrt/adguardhome on a Pi4 for a long time and only changed it because the SSD died and I decided to switch to a OrangePi R1 plus to try out.
I have seen it talked about a lot, and compared with pi-hole. I dont trust it as much as I trust pi-hole.
It might work just like pi-hole, but wont they collect all the DNS data? Or just stop being free one day..
@diizzy Could you list some of those options?
I only program PLCs, industrial robots and C#, porting all that into openwrt isn't something I could do in a sensible time frame
Just start simple and extend as necessary. luci-app-adblock might not quite compete with pi-hole, but it gets the job done with minimal effort, at least give it a try before looking further.
I don't know about the data collection. I assumed that it is just a local service. I certainly didn't have to create an account so I can't see how they could track anything except IP Addresses and I routinely go via my own home built VPN in the cloud so presumably only anonymous data would be collected
