Raspberry Pi Asked by Pure.Krome on October 5, 2021
I’m trying to block Youtube on my various children’s devices, but have it allowed/open on the parents devices.
Initially I was thinking of OpenDNS but that would block everything in this LAN. I could manually change the DNS settings of the ‘parents’ devices, but this too is a pain.
I was really hoping that I could use my RPI (which is doing nothing/not turned on/gathering dust) to be some middleware hardware device that could be used to intercept any traffics from a specific set of MAC’s or static LAN IP’s and .. if going to YouTube, deny.
Also (which makes this really hard) is that I don’t want to block YouTube 24×7 .. but ‘on demand’. So for example, I wake up … kids have commitments (home schooling, chores, etc), I wish to ‘flick a switch’ and YouTube is now blocked. They finish their home schooling / chores, I can now flick it back on.
Is there anything out there for the RPi that I could leverage?
Edit: Please keep any ‘parenting opinions’ out of this question. Lets keep this civil and on target.
PiHole (https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/
) could be an alternative with the parental filter addon (https://digimoot.wordpress.com/2020/07/13/pihole-use-as-a-parental-filter/).
This will also give you less ads when surfing.
Answered by Mats Karlsson on October 5, 2021
You can try KeexyBox - an open source gateway software for Raspberry Pi. It does parental control with website filtering, time access and can force bing, google and youtube safe search.
Answered by benoit974 on October 5, 2021
Try nxfilter. There are tutorials on youtube.
https://sidelink.co.za/install-nxfilter-on-raspberry-pi/
You can also use adguard. It is generaly for blocking ads, but there are options in web gui to block certain services or websites for some selected clients.
Answered by try this on October 5, 2021
You can try to use a proxy server. I haven't used one for years so I'm not very familiar with it. But it is exactly made to sit in the middle between the user and the internet server. For example besides caching internet pages squid has advanced Access Control Lists (ACL) to manage sophisticated access rights. I think you should find a configuration with it that fit your needs.
Answered by Ingo on October 5, 2021
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