pi-hole-button

I built a Red Button to disable my pi-hole! This was inspired by Christopher Moravec see his original repo and youtube video. The button design with the Raspberry Pi Pico W in the base was inspire by Dmytro Panin BOB

As I didn't like to purchased a new micro controller or a of the shelf button I designed, inspired by BOB, my own button case.

I also change a bit the code from Christopher Moravec to suite my needs as I have only the ws2812 leds and didn't like the idea to have some things hardcoded so I moved them to the settings.py

Hardware you need:

• Raspberry Pi Pico W
• (Cherry) MX Switch
• 3 * WS2812 LEDs
• 2 M3 x 10mm screws

To get this working:

1. I solder the WS2812 LED strip to the Raspberry Pi Pico W VBU, GND, GP28 and the MX switch to GND and GP6 like this:
2. More details about the assembly you see in the images folder
3. Flash your Raspberry Pi PIco W with CircuitPython download
4. Copy main.py, setings.py, and settings.toml onto your Raspberry Pi Pico W
5. Install CircuitPython packages. I use circup for this: circup install --auto
6. Update settings.py with your pi-hole's API key, pi-hols hostname/IP and Pins on your Raspberry Pi Pico W.
7. Update settings.toml with your wifi information.

Some useful links:

• Pi-Hole Website
• AdaFruit Article on Async in Python