Dad Explains AdGuard Home - Block Ads on Your Whole Network (Easy Raspberry Pi Guide)

Take back your privacy - one Raspberry Pi at a time.

In this episode of Dad Explains Everything, I walk you through installing AdGuard Home on a Raspberry Pi… step-by-step, copy-and-paste friendly, beginner-safe, and without needing to “know Linux.”

If you watched my Pi-hole video, this is the natural follow-up.
If you watched my DNS Filtering explainer, this is the next achievement badge.
And if you’ve done absolutely none of that… buckle up, because you’re about to block a shocking amount of garbage from every device you own.

In this video, you’ll learn how to:

✔ Flash Raspberry Pi OS
✔ Install AdGuard Home
✔ Configure & test DNS filtering
✔ Point your router to AdGuard Home
✔ Add Unbound for private, fully local recursive DNS
✔ Validate everything along the way
✔ Avoid common mistakes that trap beginners

And yes - you can do all of this even if you’ve never SSH’d into anything in your life.

Download the AdGuard Home Worksheet: www.dad-the-engineer.com/blog/5cxn4w2ofern6gsnxeyaw07w0vw5ve


Referenced Videos:
• Dad Explains DNS Filtering -    • Your ISP Is Watching Everything - Fix It W...  
• Dad Explains Pi-hole -    • Stop the spying! Fix It with a Raspberry P...  
• Pi-hole Part 2 -    • Your Pi-hole Isn’t Catching Everything, Pl...  

If you get stuck, drop me a comment. I try to help everyone.

If you complete the tutorial, tell me how far you went - did you install Unbound? Did you go full wizard mode? Did your router cooperate, or is it one of the bad ones?

Enjoy your new, quieter, cleaner internet.
And as always — have a great, ad-free day!

CHAPTERS
00:00 - The problem: your network is wide open
01:40 Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home - what’s the difference?
02:44 - Printing the worksheet (highly recommended)
03:37 - Hardware you’ll need
04:05 - STEP 1 - Flashing Raspberry Pi OS
05:56 - STEP 2 - Updating Raspberry Pi OS
06:45 - STEP 3 - Setting a static IP or DHCP reservation
07:22 - STEP 4 - Installing AdGuard Home
08:25 - STEP 5 - Pointing your router to AdGuard Home
09:22 - STEP 6 (Optional) - Installing Unbound
10:52 - Redundancy, fallback DNS, HA
11:58 - Maintenance & backups
13:48 - Sharing is caring!

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