Looking at products like Gryphon or Circle, I feel like this should be pretty easy to do self-hosted. It’s just firewall rules right? Anyone know of a good open source/self-host product I can do this? A phone app is not a requirement. A web interface is fine.

I’m kind of trying right now with PiHole and cron jobs but something prettier and more comprehensive would be nice.

  • lckdscl [they/them]English
    7•1 year ago

    I would second Adguard Home. They have a lot of presets for blocking online services. You can add persistent clients, which can be identified with MAC/IP, select the presets you want to disable, and also have custom block/access rules for those clients.

  • @_jj_@feddit.chEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    What’s your problem with PiHole? Why do you need Cron jobs? I’m quite happy with PiHole. If you like, I can try to help you with some questions there.

    • @mnrockclimberOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Cron jobs are mainly for enabling and disabling internet access by mac address on a schedule. I also like that these commercial products force search to google or duckduckgo safe search, and youtube to youtube restricted on a per user basis (which really could be done by mac address). I mean I can prob do all this with firewall rules myself. But a slick web interface would be cool.

  • @activator90@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Nobody’s a child in my home. But I do block porn and malware on a DNS level. I use Knot Resolver with a custom RPZ blocklist curated from multiple sources which self-update weekly. I don’t use PiHole or Adguard Home because they seem too unnecessarily heavy