balena Pi-hole & Minecraft Server

If you are looking for a way to quickly and easily get up and running with Pi-hole and a Minecraft Server for your home network, this is the project for you.

This project is a balenaCloud stack

balenaCloud is a free service to remotely manage and update your Raspberry Pi through an online dashboard interface.

Getting Started

A free balenaCloud account
Raspberry Pi 4B (4GB Model HIGHLY recommended)
A fan to cool the CPU on the Raspberry Pi
16GB or greater micro SD Card (SanDisk Extreme Pro SD cards recommended)

Setting Up

Setup the Raspberry Pi

Login to the balenaCloud dashboard
Create an application, selecting the correct device type for your Raspberry Pi
Add a device to the application, enabling you to download the OS
Flash the downloaded OS to your SD card with balenaEtcher
Power up the Pi and check it's online in the dashboard
Configure Application Environment Variables

Application Environment Variables

Application Environment Variables apply to all services within the application, and can be applied fleet-wide to apply to multiple devices.

Pi-Hole Variables

Name	Example	Purpose
`TZ`	`America/New_York`	To inform services of the timezone in your location, in order to set times and dates within the applications correctly. Find a list of all timezone values here.
`DNSMASQ_LISTENING`	`eth0`	We set this to `eth0` to indicate we want DNSMASQ to listen on the ethernet interface of the Raspberry Pi. If you're connecting to your network with WiFi replace this with `wlan0`
`INTERFACE`	`eth0`	As above.
`WEBPASSWORD`	`mysecretpassword`	(optional) password for accessing the web-based interface of Pi-hole - you won’t be able to access the admin panel without defining a password here.
`DNS1`	`127.0.0.1#5053`	(optional) Tell Pi-hole where to forward DNS requests that aren’t blocked. We’re using the dnscrypt-proxy project here but you can specify your own.
`DNS2`	`127.0.0.1#5053`	(optional) Secondary DNS server - see above.
`ServerIP`	`x.x.x.x`	(recommended) Set to your server's LAN IP, used by web block modes and lighttpd bind address.

Minecraft Server Variables

Name	Example	Purpose
`SCP_PASSWORD`	`balenaserver`	(optional) Set your own SCP password, defaults to `balenaminecraftserver`
`DEVICE_HOSTNAME`	`balenaminecraftserver`	(optional) Set your own device hostname.
`DOUBLE_RAM`	`false`	(recommended) The default value used by a Minecraft server is 1GB if value is set to `true` doubles it to 2GB.

Deploy This Application

Install the balena CLI tools
Login with balena login
Download this project and from the project directory run balena push <appName> where is the name you gave your balenaCloud application in the first step.

Connecting

Pi-hole

Open a web browser and enter the device IP address like this: 192.168.1.2/admin. You can sign in and configure settings using the value set for WEBPASSWORD.

For more information on post install setup, check the offical Pi-hole documentation here: https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/post-install/

Minecraft

Open the Minecraft and enter your DEVICE_HOSTNAME, by default this will be balenaminecraftserver. You can also connect using the device IP address.

Updating

From the project directory run git submodule foreach git pull origin master
Wait for project changes to be pulled
Run balena push <appName> to push the changes to the Pi

Credit

All credit goes to:

anthonyvadala / balena-pi-hole_minecraft-server Goto Github PK