Simple web interface for managing two Pi-hole instances

The pihole grabber is a program to fetch data from the two Pi-hole instances and save it to json files. A systemctl service file is included too.

The web interface needs putting behind a web server of some kind. An nginx docker container is probably the most convenient.

git clone https://github.com/tjeffree/pihole-manager.git
cd pihole-manager

Copy the example.env to .env and update it with your two Pi-hole details.

cp example.env .env

nano .env

There is no attention to security here, it's assumed your Pi-holes are on your internal network and not exposed to the world.

Install docker and docker compose

Hit up docker.io

Run

docker-compose up -d

That's it, you're done. The dashboard will be available at http://[address-of-server]:8080

Install dependancies

pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

Test it

python3 ./piholegrabber.py

Should see a bit of output showing the Pis that are being monitored. It'll wait for you to ctrl+c to quit.

Set up service

Modify piholemanage.service with the location of piholegrabber.py then:

sudo cp piholemanage.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo chown root:root /etc/systemd/system/piholemanage.service
sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/piholemanage.service

sudo systemctl enable piholemanage
sudo systemctl start piholemanage

Check it's running with:

sudo systemctl status piholemanage

You should also find a new data directory in the pihole-manager directory.

Install docker

Hit up docker.io

Start container

docker run --name pihole-manage -v `pwd`:/usr/share/nginx/html -p 8080:80 -d nginx

Now you should be able to hit http://[address-of-server]:8080

I used 8080 in case you are running this on the same server as Pi-hole which already uses port 80 but change as you like