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Home Assistant Community Add-on: AdGuard Home

AdGuard Home is a network-wide ad-and-tracker blocking DNS server with parental control (adult content blocking) capabilities. Its purpose is to let you control your entire network and all your devices, and it does not require using a client-side program.

AdGuard Home provides a beautiful, easy and feature-rich web interface to easily manage the filtering process and its settings.

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Home Assistant add-on.

  1. Ensure your Home Assistant device has a static IP and static external DNS servers! This is important! You WILL end up having issues if you skip this step.

    • Change this setting in Network: Open your Home Assistant instance and manage your systems network configuration. (Settings → System → Network → Configure network interfaces → Your Interface → IPv4 → Static)
    • Please note, setting a fixed IP in your router is NOT static.

  2. Click the Home Assistant My button below to open the add-on on your Home Assistant instance.

    Open this add-on in your Home Assistant instance.

  3. Click the "Install" button to install the add-on.

  4. Start the "AdGuard Home" add-on.

  5. Check the logs of the "AdGuard Home" to see if everything went well.

  6. Click the "OPEN WEB UI" button and log in with your Home Assistant account.

  7. Ready to go!

Configuration

Note: Remember to restart the add-on when the configuration is changed.

Example add-on configuration:

log_level: info
ssl: true
certfile: fullchain.pem
keyfile: privkey.pem

Note: This is just an example, don't copy and paste it! Create your own!

Option: log_level

The log_level option controls the level of log output by the addon and can be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:

  • trace: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.
  • debug: Shows detailed debug information.
  • info: Normal (usually) interesting events.
  • warning: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.
  • error: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.
  • fatal: Something went terribly wrong. Add-on becomes unusable.

Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a more severe level, e.g., debug also shows info messages. By default, the log_level is set to info, which is the recommended setting unless you are troubleshooting.

Option: ssl

Enables/Disables SSL (HTTPS) on the add-on. Set it true to enable it, false otherwise.

Note: The SSL settings only apply to direct access and has no effect on the Ingress service.

Option: certfile

The certificate file to use for SSL.

Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is the default

Option: keyfile

The private key file to use for SSL.

Note: The file MUST be stored in /ssl/, which is the default

Option: leave_front_door_open

Adding this option to the add-on configuration allows you to disable authentication on the AdGuard Home by setting it to true.

Note: We STRONGLY suggest, not to use this, even if this add-on is only exposed to your internal network. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Encryption Settings (Advanced Usage)

Adguard allows the configuration of running DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over- TLS locally. If you configure these options please ensure to restart the addon afterwards. Also to use DNS-over-HTTPS correctly please ensure to configure SSL on the addon as well as in Adguard itself. Also consider that the addon and Adguard cannot use the same port for SSL.

Changelog & Releases

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

  • MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
  • MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
  • PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

Support

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

You could also open an issue here GitHub.

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019-2025 Franck Nijhof

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.