Raspberry Pi Ad Blocker

How to install an Ad Blocker on your Raspberry Pi

Name:

Enrique Juarez

College:

Eastern Washington University

Location:

Spokane Washington, RiverPoint Campus

Major:

Business Management & Business Information System

Lab:

Raspberry Pi Ad Blocker

Field of study:

Cyber Security

Pi Hole is an internal private DNS server for your network, it is meant for a network-wide ad blocker. This makes it easier so instead of installing adblockers for all your different devices and browsers this program you will only have to do it once and it will protect all the devices you want. It will also block ads from your smart T.V. and your video games.

1. Monitor: Can be computer monitor or it could just be some sort of screen with a HDMI plug in

2. Power Supply: Power supply with micro USB or just micro USB wire

3. Raspberry PI: You can pick which you want but i recommend the Raspberry Pi 3 model B/B+

4: SD card: 16gb Micron SDHC recommended but could get a higher if wanted

5. USB Ether adapter

6. Ethernet Cable: At least a foot long or longer depending where you plan to leave it

1. Raspbian Lite

2. Pi-hole.Etcher

3. Pi-hole server.Pi-hole

1. Hook up Ethernet cable from router to raspberry pi so you have internet.

2. grab a monitor or TV (it doesn't matter)

3. grab you HDMI cable and connect to whatever monitor you are using with the raspberry pi. So you can see what you are doing.

4.connect your micro USB cable to your pi for your power

5. connect your keyboard and mouse to the raspberry pi USB plug ins so you can control it.

1. turn on pi by plugging in power supply

2 Pi will turn on with green light that will blink on

3. Login to rasspberry pi

general username will be: pi

general password would be: raspberry

You would want to update and upgrade your Raspberry Pi whenever you use it just to make sure that your Raspberry Pi is up to date and runs smooth because it could mess up with your Pi.

Here are the steps to update:

1. Type: sudo apt - get update

Here are the steps to upgrade

1. Type: sudo apt - get upgrade

I decided to change my user name, here are the steps for that:

1. sudo demand on pi for changing name:

sudo usermod -aG sudo (new username)

2. sudo demand on pi to revoke acsess:

sudo userdel (username wanting to revoke)

sudo rm -rf/home/(username wanting to revoke)

If this is the first time you have used raspberry pi hole like me you would have to change the keyboard like I did.

1. First you would need to get to the setting menu this is the demand you will type in:

sudo raspi -config

2. click on " Localisation"

1. Click on keyboard layout

2. click on generic 105 keyboard

1. Other

2. English US

3. Tab (ok) after you click on previous step

1. Click on the default for the keyboard layout

2. Press Tab then press ok to finish keyboard layout settings

1. Download Etcher to format flash driver:

A. Copy image

B. add ssh.txt file

1. sudo curl -sSL http://install.pi-hole.net | bash

In this step it will be downloading in the Ad blocker

1.This step just tells you that it has been been downloaded and that they take donations to help it run

1.Select: wlan 0

1.Select whatever Upstream DNS Provider:

I chose Google

1.Pick which ever one, I picked StevenBlack

1. Select IPv4 Block ads over IPv4

you pick which ever one that works better for you

1. you would say yes if that's the IP address you want or No if you want to use a different one.

1. Press Ok

1. Click ON

1. Click ON

1.Click ON

1. Click on Show Everything

2. I clicked on show everything but you can select any of the other options if you don't want to see everything.

1. On this step its downloading all the options you picked.

1. Your raspberry Pi Hole would be completely downloaded and will give you some information.

2. It shows your IPv4 connection.

3. It shows you Admin webpage login password.

I decided to change the password on my raspberry pi hole just so no one can get in without permission.

1.Pi Hole demand to change password:

pi hole -a -p

2. From here you will get a confirmation that you want to change your password and you would just change it from here

On this page you will see more stats from the adblockers as well as settings