5 Amazing Ways to Use a Raspberry Pi at Home - Block Ads and More!

In this video, we show you 5 different ways to use a Raspberry Pi at home. From ad blocking to home automation, a Raspberry Pi can be a powerful and versatile tool for optimizing your home network. We demonstrate how to set up a Raspberry Pi as a network-wide ad blocker, as well as other ways to use the tiny computer for tasks such as creating a media server, building a smart home device, and more.

Whether you're a tech enthusiast or just looking for ways to enhance your home setup, this video will show you how to get the most out of a Raspberry Pi.

Guides/Tutorials:

Small Note: If you are going to install everything like me, change the default port on OpenMediaServer to something random (e.g. 616838) so that you can access Pi-Hole's web interface with ease. For simple doubts like default passwords, use google's help.

00:00 - Intro
00:52 - pi-hole (Home wide ad-blocking)
01:49 - NAS / Plex
03:17 - Always available remote computer
03:53 - Homebridge
05:27 - Conclusion and outro

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Editing software - Final Cut Pro

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[Priyam-Raj]

There’s something wrong with the availability of RaspberryPi at the moment I guess, I got a whole RP4 starter kit that included an SD card, a case, wires, etc for under Rs. 7k (less than 100 USD). Maybe there’s a stock scarcity so better to buy later if you were planning to.

[DamienBoath]

Ive been running a Pi-Hole for years. It's fantastic.

[Priyam-Raj]

The thumbnail wasn't ready but I was a little too excited to post this

[zamblot]

Wow, great video, I didn't even know this was possible. Might have to grab this haha

[soumyajitroy]

Video quality is increasing day by day, no doubt we will see a new Priyam in a few monhs, btw early before the thumbnail changes 😉

[Kokoro_watari]

I miss those days when i watched your Thursday live streams with excitement and checked your channel every morning to see if there's a new free game :(

[introvertplayz]

Actually this deserves a round of applause
ACTUAL quality over quantity.
You remind me of lowspecgamer(I.e he too deleted his previous videos and started uploaded more quality content)

Count me in for the new ride ✊

[vinayakarora]

Imagine if someday a Raspberry Pi becomes as capable as a macbook...tbh, with the M1 chipset, I think it's possible...

[Lenicyl]

i have a pi, and i have played with it for quite a lot,
i do have some suggestions

- Try diepi os instead of default os, dietpi is lighter, faster and much easier to configure, it even has its own app installers

- Jellyfin, open source alternative to plex, i use it and its really good :)

- (Advanced, kinda) Learn docker, and dockerise everything, its a lot easier to manage stuff with that

[masonholman]

You had me at "Blocks...ads...home."

[fatherdoctor]

Just a heads up... Open media vault doesn't support the desktop version anymore of raspbian os, just the lite or omv installed with itself a debian distro

[pipkinrahl]

I love my Raspberry Pi 400 and use it with Emby for a video media server.

[tony-ma]

does it block the ads on ios youtube app?

[hemantbhardwaj]

Nice one going to purchase soon with 8 gb ram

[cristiciocan]

So about minecraft tlauncher i had a old pc and i used tlauncher and like 2-3 years later my pc got f ed is that ok?

[anirudhmathur]

Raspberry pi is just out of stock everywhere, any alternative boards you suggest?

[geckags]

Nice video! But the Pi-hole does not remove YouTube ads anymore sadly.

[ViciousPikachu]

So can the cheapest raspberry Pi do all these things without overheating?

[JustHeredl]

AdBlock for Youtube, Chrome extension

[shauryakumar]

Amazing timing!
I just got into the self hosted stuff
so far ive got:-
nextcloud
jellyfin
heimdall
photoprism
sonarr and radarr

all of this running on omv with docker
also using tailscale to access remotely