Synchronizing Multiple Piholes with orbital-sync

I run PiHole for ad-blocking on my home network. I’m an SRE in my day job, so of course I’m not running a single instance of something as important as DNS. I also don’t want to have to update things like local DNS entries or blocklists in multiple places, that will cause weird and annoying inconsistencies in my DNS. Enter orbital-sync. ...

December 7, 2024 · 2 min · 406 words · Me

Installing ESPHome

Some of my posts assume that the user already has ESPHome installed, so I’m documenting how to install it here so I don’t have to repeat it everywhere. ...

May 22, 2023 · 2 min · 334 words · Me