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Introducing Event Horizon - a Pihole Companion for non-technical network users (self.pihole)<br>submitted 5 months ago * by ivanhaversham

Several weeks ago, I deployed Pi-hole at my grandparents’ house. Like many people, they naturally trust what they see on the internet, so it felt like a good way to reduce their exposure to scams and malicious ads. It seemed to work well, but within a week, they started complaining that some websites were not working. As anyone who has ever supported family knows, this can quickly turns into being permanent on-call technical support. I wanted something that protected them without constantly frustrating them or requiring me to remote in every time something broke.

That led me to an idea. I built a very simple web page they could use themselves. With no technical knowledge, they can temporarily disable ad blocking for a predefined amount of time and then have it automatically re-enable. This reduced their frustration with Pi-hole and significantly reduced mine.

I originally shared a rough version of this here. After some encouragement from the community, I cleaned it up, packaged it into a small service, added a one-shot curl installer, and published it on GitHub. Thank you to everyone who asked for the code - it encouraged me to branch out and learn new things.

I named it Event Horizon, keeping with the Pi-hole black hole theme. In space, the event horizon is the boundary where two states meet. On one side, everything is filtered. Once you cross it, you see the unfiltered internet.

Meet Event Horizon.

The user-facing page is intentionally minimal. It shows a warning and a single button. When the button is pressed, the user is taken to a results page with a simple countdown timer and a short message indicating when filtering will be restored.

I did not forget the administrator's convenience, either. The main page includes a link to logs, which can be disabled during installation or via the config file if you do not want casual access. The logs show when...