If you want to host it locally, Stirling PDF can be run in docker, and uses a library that uses Tesseract. Has a bunch of other handy PDF operations, too. I keep it around for the two times a year I need to merge, split, or decrypt PDFs.
https://github.com/Frooodle/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/HowToUseOCR.md
It can do it straight from PDF and do multiple files at a time.
You can do the basic records via file. /etc/pihole/custom.list is a hosts formatted file for records so you don’t have to use a gui.
I had dns issues until I got my allowed ips squared away. You could try setting it to 0.0.0.0/0 if it’s not already to verify it’s not the problem.
The lines before it seem to imply you’ve run it before. If this is a new install I’d try dropping the scheme entirely and starting again.
I use this guy https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn
Open up the transmission rpc port and you’re golden. It also sets up a proxy for any other services/devices you want to run through the VPN. Supports port forwarding for PIA too.
Even if your router can issue two DNS servers you shouldn’t add a second that’s not a pihole.
Otherwise a client will just fail over any blocked lookups to the secondary, negating the purpose of a pihole.
I found it easiest to get them running on docker. The documentation wasn’t FANTASTIC, but it got me there in the end.
Then I have nginx proxy manager running in another docker container, which handles the virtual hosts for me. It’s the one actually bound to 80 and 443. Will help you get set up with SSL certs easily, too.
It’s more than mildly when I’m shoveling snow and my wife starts the car to warm up. Every time I get within 10 feet of the car my phone disconnects my earbuds. Same if I’m doing yardwork when she gets home.
Even more annoying because my phone can output to two Bluetooth devices at once. If you think it’s so important the new device needs connecting just do both.
But they should never automatically change Bluetooth devices. If I’m getting in the car you can switch devices when I pull out my earbuds and they shut off when I put them in their case.
I use nginx proxy manager to route all my services. Just forward 80 and 443 from my router to that.
It won’t scale linearly. A lot of those users will be subscribed to subs the instance is already replicating. It would only be new subs that would add to the growth.
I have to do anything passkey based on chrome on Android. No clue why. Had to recover my PSN account like 4 times before I figured out it was a Firefox problem.