[Re-Release | Pi-Hole On/Off Toggle Driver ]

[dadarkgtprince]

@SoundersDude

• Is the same true for turning on? (e.g. if you manually turn the pihole off via the web interface then try using this for on?
• When you try on/off can you post the logs here?
• Does your RaspberryPi / PiHole happen to be behind a different port that isn't 80 to access the Web Dashboard?
• If you manually in your browser go to http:///admin/api.php?status and http:///admin/api.php?summaryRaw what do you get?

1. yes, the turning on does nothing as well. i did manually turn off in pi-hole and it did reflect as off in HE

[dev:1329](http://{HE IP}/logs#dev1329)2023-01-11 11:46:07.792 am [error](http://{HE IP}/device/edit/1329)java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot get property 'FTLnotrunning' on null object on line 109 (method parse)
[dev:1329](http://{HE IP}/logs#dev1329)2023-01-11 11:46:07.787 am [debug](http://{HE IP}/device/edit/1329)Received 'null'
[dev:1329](http://{HE IP}/logs#dev1329)2023-01-11 11:46:07.782 am [debug](http://{HE IP}/device/edit/1329)Parsing 'hubitat.device.HubResponse@1335f09'
[dev:1329](http://{HE IP}/logs#dev1329)2023-01-11 11:45:56.854 am [error](http://{HE IP}/device/edit/1329)java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot get property 'FTLnotrunning' on null object on line 109 (method parse)
[dev:1329](http://{HE IP}/logs#dev1329)2023-01-11 11:45:56.849 am [debug](http://{HE IP}/device/edit/1329)Received 'null'
[dev:1329](http://{HE IP}/logs#dev1329)2023-01-11 11:45:56.843 am [debug](http://{HE IP}/device/edit/1329)Parsing 'hubitat.device.HubResponse@1ec0cc1'

3. Not behind a different port, it's the default

{"domains_being_blocked":751393,"dns_queries_today":78849,"ads_blocked_today":30875,"ads_percentage_today":39.157124,"unique_domains":9221,"queries_forwarded":28262,"queries_cached":19557,"clients_ever_seen":58,"unique_clients":40,"dns_queries_all_types":78849,"reply_UNKNOWN":1938,"reply_NODATA":1447,"reply_NXDOMAIN":2756,"reply_CNAME":17038,"reply_IP":54830,"reply_DOMAIN":825,"reply_RRNAME":0,"reply_SERVFAIL":2,"reply_REFUSED":0,"reply_NOTIMP":0,"reply_OTHER":0,"reply_DNSSEC":0,"reply_NONE":0,"reply_BLOB":13,"dns_queries_all_replies":78849,"privacy_level":0,"status":"disabled","gravity_last_updated":{"file_exists":true,"absolute":1673169024,"relative":{"days":3,"hours":8,"minutes":34}}}

[SoundersDude]

@dadarkgtprince

Received 'null'

That tells me that your_ip/api.php?status isn't returning anything to this app unlike your browser where you get {"status":"enabled"}.

Could your vlan be blocking traffic between your HE and rPi or maybe the IP in the settings is wrong, or you need to add the auth key back?

[dadarkgtprince]

@SoundersDude

Could your vlan be blocking traffic between your HE and rPi

I do have my firewall set up for access from my HE to Pi-Hole. I do see the "combined" details on HE with my Queries, Blocked, and Clients, so not sure why it's not properly pulling the status. I'll have to take a look more when I get out of work

[Sebastien]

Any chance that a toggle could be added to enable/disable logging?

[dadarkgtprince]

it's weird because when i do a refresh, it gets the information

dev:1329

2023-01-12 05:15:22.052 pm debugReceived '[reply_NOTIMP:0, reply_DOMAIN:838, reply_NXDOMAIN:4954, reply_RRNAME:0, reply_DNSSEC:0, gravity_last_updated:[file_exists:true, absolute:1673169024, relative:[hours:14, minutes:4, days:4]], queries_forwarded:28745, clients_ever_seen:58, reply_NONE:0, unique_domains:9416, privacy_level:0, reply_UNKNOWN:2170, reply_NODATA:1580, ads_blocked_today:27025, dns_queries_all_types:77408, dns_queries_all_replies:77408, dns_queries_today:77408, reply_OTHER:0, reply_SERVFAIL:2, reply_IP:49547, queries_cached:21377, reply_CNAME:18311, reply_REFUSED:0, domains_being_blocked:751393, ads_percentage_today:34.912411, unique_clients:37, reply_BLOB:6, status:enabled]'

dev:1329

2023-01-12 05:15:22.047 pm debugParsing 'hubitat.device.HubResponse@e69496'

it gets everything, but it's not able to control the status

[SoundersDude]

@dadarkgtprince

when i do a refresh, it gets the information

Super weird, as a refresh is the exact thing as a "poll". The code literately calls poll.

@dadarkgtprince

it's not able to control the status

That sounds to me like a rights issue. Are you sure you don't need an Auth Key? Or if not, can you check that you removed the auth key item from line 149
def path = getApiPath() + "?" + toggle + "&auth=" + apiToken

[SoundersDude]

@Sebastien

Any chance that a toggle could be added to enable/disable logging?

Yep. I'll add that to the list of things;
So far;

1. Make API Key Optional
2. Make Debug Toggle-able

[dadarkgtprince]

that was it! i removed "+ apiToken" from lines 88 and 149 and it can now control it. i wonder what apiToken was providing since I had it blank.

to make this work for me, the updates i did:
33: input name: "apiToken", type: "text", title: "API token", required: false
88: def path = getApiPath() + "?summaryRaw" + "&auth="
149: def path = getApiPath() + "?" + toggle + "&auth="

EDIT:
just updated the code to see what apiToken was giving and it is "null". i wonder if having an if statement in the script to say "if apiToken = null THEN apiToken = "" " would suffice

EDIT 2:
played with it a bit more, made the following changes and it still works:

88:
def path = ""
if (apiToken == null) {
path = getApiPath() + "?summaryRaw" + "&auth="
} else{
path = getApiPath() + "?summaryRaw" + "&auth=" + apiToken
}

149 (now 154 after making the above change):
def path = ""
if (apiToken == null) {
path = getApiPath() + "?" + toggle + "&auth="
} else{
path = getApiPath() + "?" + toggle + "&auth=" + apiToken
}

not sure why it wouldn't let me leave the def path in the if statement, but it is what it is

[SoundersDude]

New update posted to GitHub with the following additions;

• Added toggle for debugging &
• API Token is now optional
• Simplified the code (streamlined repeated code into one function, reducing the size and maintainability)

[SoundersDude]

@Sebastien

I wonder if there is some way it could be made accessible to Homekit…?

I think right now you could create a virtual switch in HE which does work with the homekit integration, then set it up to be a two way mirror.

e.g. the create two simple RM Rules that mirror each other.
1 triggers off of a change in this device and sets the virtual switch to the same state if not already set, and then the another triggers off of a change in on the virtual switch and sets this device to the same state if not already set

[dadarkgtprince]

updated to the latest version (v 2023.01.12) and now i can't control the on/off again

[dev:1329](http://{HE IP}/logs#dev1329)2023-01-13 10:02:59.348 am [error](http://{HE IP}/device/edit/1329)java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot get property 'FTLnotrunning' on null object on line 127 (method parse)

[SoundersDude]

Let me PM you, I think I know what the issue is for those without the security.

[SoundersDude]

Thanks to @dadarkgtprince - We figured out the issue for password-less pi-holes and the device code has been updated. Thank you!

[dadarkgtprince]

just tested v 2023.01.13 and it works as expected. thanks @SoundersDude !

[Sebastien]

@SoundersDude

you could create a virtual switch in HE which does work with the homekit integration, then set it up to be a two way mirror

Very good idea - I might just do that…

[a.mcdear]

So, curious how hard it would be to add a presence sensor to this driver? I notice that if my Pi Hole server is offline, the switch status just indicates the last known status. It would be pretty cool if the driver could report "Offline" if the Pi Hole server has gone down for whatever reason..

[SoundersDude]

Very interesting. That shouldn't be too hard, my only concern would be false positives, but maybe that is fine.

[a.mcdear]

@SoundersDude

Very interesting. That shouldn't be too hard, my only concern would be false positives, but maybe that is fine.

I'd always be willing to try!

[dadarkgtprince]

@a.mcdear

curious how hard it would be to add a presence sensor to this driver

[Deprecated] Web Pinger

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