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mfkrause / homebridge-people-pro

Homebridge plugin that provides details of who is in a Home + History (powered by fakegato)
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Feature request: Custom DNS Entry #8

Closed ppapajohn closed 3 years ago

ppapajohn commented 3 years ago

Hi @mfkrause, thank you for the great plugin! Unfortunately I cannot use it the way I have setup my home network. In a nutshell, I have a RaspberryPi4, on which I have installed Pi-Hole (amazing project!) and Homebridge. The OS is an Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS.

As such, the DNS server on the OS is not Pi-Hole, but Cloudfare's DNS servers. So, if I add the phone's name in the config.json file instead of the IP, this never gets resolved. Obviously an option would be to assign a static IP on all phones, however, this would be time consuming as you can imagine.

So, it would be great to add an option for custom DNS server, so as to redirect or A record queries to Pi-Hole.

Hope this makes sense. Wishes for a great (rest of the) weekend ahead! :)

Best Regards, Panos

mfkrause commented 3 years ago

Hey! Thanks for the feature request.

Based on your explanation, I feel like this is a very specific use-case. However, as the implementation should be relatively easy, I'll see if I can get this implemented by next week.

ppapajohn commented 3 years ago

Thanks @mfkrause! Looking forward to it! :)

Although it may sound a specific request, many people combine projects on a pi. Besides rpi4 is very powerful and it can easily cope with both. Since pi-hole is another very popular project on the pi, such a combination is very often to the best of my knowledge; maybe other can benefit as well! :)

take care and wishes for a great week ahead!

infernalK commented 3 years ago

Hello, I’m also interested in this update cause I have the same issue with PiHole.

mfkrause commented 3 years ago

@ppapajohn @infernalK Hi there, this is now implemented in v0.10.0. Custom DNS servers can be added per target using the "customDns" property (please refer to the README or configure using homebridge-config-ui-x). If you have any questions or problems with this version, please let me know.

ppapajohn commented 3 years ago

Don’t know if this will reach u. Thank you very much mfkrause! Much appreciated! :)

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 @ppapajohn @infernalK Hi there, this is now implemented in v0.10.0. Custom DNS servers can be added per target using the "customDnsServer" property (please refer to the README or configure using homebridge-config-ui-x). If you have any questions or problems with this version, please let me know.

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infernalK commented 3 years ago

Hello, Thanks for the update. It’s working good for me except for one device (Samsung S20). It’s Ok with Samsung S41 and IPhone.

ppapajohn commented 3 years ago

thank you @mfkrause! Much appreciated! So far all good.. I will test it a bit more during the weekend. Have a great day ahead! :)