Huh, I’ll definitely look into that. Both times I tried to route external pihole access, somehow other mystery services found it and it slowed to a crawl from getting absolutely pounded by requests not from me. Thanks for that tip!

Except that, as I’ve already mentioned, I have two piholes, and sometimes both will be receiving requests. Based on your description, the second would never receive requests as long as the first is online. Perhaps this is router dependent, but it’s what I’ve observed.

Pretty much. Not sure how the router determines which DNS to use, but mine seems to latch onto whichever one serves up results the fastest, which would inevitably be cloudflare direct after the pihole returns enough blocks.

So I use a Raspberry Pi Zero W as a dedicated pihole, and my Pi 4 seedbox acts as its own pihole and as a redundant backup. Then use gravity-sync from the Zero to the 4 to mirror the settings.

I have two piholes, and sometimes both will receive requests at the same time, if there’s a lot of traffic.

I would avoid it, as it may use the alternate instead of the pihole at anytime. If you want redundancy, it’s best to have a second pihole.

Understood, not sure why the jellyfin and kodi plugins would behave differently, but it seems that’s the case. It’s possible the kodi one is still in development and one day I’ll be forced to sign in again.

I don’t know if you have a jellyfin option, I don’t use that, which I why my reply mentioned kodi.

Another reply of mine in here explains the differences observed in the .org/.com plugins from my end. Again, it may not matter for you.

Based on the descriptions they seem the same except for .org/.com, and looks like the .com has an extra dependency “opensubtitlesdev” and maybe is a newer plugin? v1.0.2 vs v5.1.4? AlI know for certain is that the .org insists I login and is generally a pain in the ass, and the .com doesn’t require me to login and hasn’t failed me yet. Which, of course, may change.

edit: oddly enough the .com plugin description also tells you to register/import your account on opensubtitles.com before use, and to my knowledge I’ve done no such thing and still haven’t logged in to the plugin.

Have you tried switching to an opensubtitles.com plugin instead? I switched my kodi to that one and now it works great without harassing me for logins.