It’s also worth noting the instruction at the bottom of this page to set a static IP address for the device hosting AdGuard Home, in this case, my Raspberry Pi. Going through the setup, the settings on the initial page can be left as-is, this will allow you to be able to utilise AdGuard Home regardless of whether you use Ethernet or Wi-Fi, but you can limit it to a specific network connection if you wish. Pi-Hole which I mentioned earlier does let you be a little more hands-on with the configuration and network side of things, but I think the interface of AdGuard Home is more user friendly and pretty. I really like the user interface of AdGuard Home and we can see that immediately as we browse to the initial setup screen. As I’m doing configuration from my computer, I’ll be using the third IP address, but if you’re doing this all directly on your Raspberry Pi you can browse to. Within the terminal you’ll see some IP addresses to browse to in a web browser, this will allow us to finish the configuration. This command shouldn’t take long to run and will let you know when AdGuard Home has finished installing and is up and running. To get started open the terminal and enter the following command: curl -s -S -L | sh -s -v I’ll also be using SSH as this allows me to copy and paste any commands required for the tutorial as well as do any configuration directly from my computer over the network.

This process should work on most Linux and Mac systems, I shall be using a Raspbian Lite installation on a Raspberry Pi 3 for this guide so I will be referring to the Raspberry Pi a few times during this guide.

The process of getting up and running with AdGuard Home is pretty straightforward as an automated install script will do much of the heavy lifting that would otherwise need to be done with a manual installation. You may be thinking “well can’t I just run an ad blocker in my browser” and the answer is yes, but being able to do this at the DNS level across your whole network means that all your devices won’t see ads, even if they can’t run an ad blocker and you can free up system resources as you don’t need to run ad blocking software or apps on all of your devices individually.ĪdGuard Home isn’t the only type of software that does this, Pi-Hole is another option that I covered a few years ago but I also wanted to share AdGuard Home as I thought it is a handy piece of software that people may be able to benefit from. Aside from ad and tracker blocking, AdGuard Home also has other perks such as being able to block malicious websites and give parents control over devices connected to the network and what content is accessible.

Adguard dns setup