For me, it quit working when I did something in the app around the end of December (can’t remember what) and that prompted me to setup a computer with Ubuntu. I am now running Pi-Hole, an ntp server, Homebridge (which had been running on Windows), and ES from it. Now I’m glad this happened. It was much easier than I thought it would be.
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Check out Adguard Home. I switched from Pi-Hole over the AGH and like it better.
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Thanks. I’ll check it out.
What do you like about AdGuard over Pi-Hole?
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- More polished clean interface and settings
- Supports DOT/DOH (and others) upstream out of the box
- Allow-lists built in
- Supports better block lists (regex style), also supports traditional style lists.
- More useful info in query log
Cons:
- Miss some of the charts on PiHole. Mainly the upstream DNS being used pie chart. I was able to make something in Grafana eventually to cover that.
- Custom filtering rules is just a giant text entry box, but has more options.
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Thanks, this helped me as well
He's mentioned it eventually but he has a couple of other things that take priority.
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I am still using GitHub - TonyFleisher/echo-speaks-server at docker-enablement which works. Any reason to switch to something else?
No.
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I followed all of the instructions and I can’t figure out why it’s not recording the IP address. I can see the login page when I go to that ip:8091 address.
Is there anyway to manually change this address?
Check this guide which covers how to set the IP when running with docker: [GUIDE] Echo Speaks Server on Docker (and alternates)
The second post has some alternate install methods as well, and a link to this post which shows how to set the IP when running without docker (via pm2): [RELEASE] Echo Speaks V4 - #1229 by jtp10181
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It might see it, not sure what you would be able to do with it though.
From the bottom of the Amazon link you posted:
Echo Glow does not contain microphones or speakers.
I agree with Jeff (@jtp10181). Hard to see how such a device could be used by Echo Speaks.
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Sorry, yes I know it doesn't have any mic/speaker but was wondering if it had similar API endpoints, etc for being able to control the lights and followed the Echo pattern of integrations. Apologies if that was a dumb assumption 
All this integration can do is speak.
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gotcha, thanks sir!
i noticed today that echo speaks 4.2.4.0 was released about 3 weeks ago. i tried to update via hubitat package manager but it fails. is it okay to install 4.2.4.0? i don't know what has changed, where can i see release notes? should i manually install it, how would i do that? currently i am paying heroku but would love to stop paying.
It updated fine for me. Believe it was cleanup and adding a few new Echo devices. I have run the local login server on a Raspberry Pi 4b for almost a year and a half (since Heroku announced it would charge), has always been solid for me.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tonesto7/echo-speaks/master/CHANGELOG.md
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