0.16.0 - Enhanced Group Pausing ⏸️ 🚫

🎉 New Feature: Enhanced Group Pausing

We're excited to introduce a powerful new group pausing feature that gives you more granular control over your Pi-hole instances and client groups!

What's New

Group Pausing is now enabled by default and provides enhanced pause functionality with dropdown selection for targeting specific client groups (or the Pi-hole instance by default).

How It Works

When the group pausing feature is enabled, the pause section displays a dropdown menu that allows you to:

• Pause specific client groups - Target individual client groups for temporary ad-blocking suspension
• Pause specific Pi-hole instances - Select individual Pi-hole instances to pause
• Granular control - Choose exactly which part of your network to temporarily disable filtering for

You can also pause individual Pi-hole instances:

Prerequisites

⚠️ Important: This feature requires the Pi-hole v6 integration to be installed in your Home Assistant instance.

⚠️ Note: This feature has not been tested with the Home Assistant Core Pi-hole integration and may not work as expected.

For Multi-Pi-hole Users

If you're running multiple Pi-hole instances or don't have client groups configured, you can disable the group pausing feature to use the legacy behavior (which pauses all Pi-hole devices simultaneously):

type: custom:pi-hole
device_id: pi_hole_device_1
features:
  - disable_group_pausing

This is recommended for multi-Pi-hole setups where you want to pause all instances together.

Configuration

The feature is enabled by default, so no additional configuration is required for most users. The pause section will automatically show the dropdown selection interface.

Benefits

• Targeted pausing - Pause specific client groups without affecting others
• Instance-specific control - Pause individual Pi-hole instances in multi-instance setups
• Better user experience - Clear visual interface for selecting what to pause
• Backward compatibility - Easy to disable for users who prefer the legacy behavior
• Wife Approval - Let the ads flow in so Daily Mail loads for her, but keep other devices blocking

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This release brings enhanced control and flexibility to your Pi-hole management experience. Enjoy the new granular pause functionality!

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• chore: bumps version to 0.16.0 by @gh-action-bump-version
• group pausing - thanks @bastgau! by @warmfire540
• chore: yarn (deps-dev): bump chai in the all-dependencies group (#55) by @dependabot[bot]

What's Changed

• chore: yarn (deps-dev): bump chai from 5.2.1 to 5.3.1 in the all-dependencies group by @dependabot[bot] in #55
• Enhanced Group Pausing ⏸️ 🚫 by @warmfire540 in #56

Full Changelog: 0.15.0...0.16.0