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Good Evening,
I am uncertain as to how this happened, but (perhaps and almost certainly after an update) my AdGuardHome stopped working completely.
I have scoured the forums as well as looked on Reddit to find individuals who seem to have had a similar issue. However, I have noticed that while they can access their .yaml configuration for AdGuardHome, mine AdGaurdHome plugin does not load at all.
What I have tried:
1. Saving the previous working .yaml config to notepad++, uninstalling the AdguardHome plugin, restarting OPNsense.
2. When I reinstalled the AdGuardHome plugin, I made sure to check both the 'Enable' and 'Primary DNS' boxes.
3. I went to Unbound DNS, in General and changed Listen Port from 53 to 5335.
4. I attempted to access AdGuardHome via the default 192.168.1.1:3000, but it just times out.
5. I tried pinging the address from my command prompt, and it returns no results, like it cannot see the plugin running OR that it simply isn't functioning?
6. I tried SSH into OPNsense, shell command, accessing the "edit /usr/local/AdGuardHome/AdGuardHome.yaml" which opens an empty folder. I pasted my previous configuration settings from step 1 into this folder, saved and exited, but AdGuardHome does not open.
7. I tried falling back to previous historical backup to when I remember AdGuardHome working, to no avail.
At this point, I have no idea what else I can try. I considered using my unRaid server with the AdGuardHome docker on it to function in its place, but I was unable to get the DNS queries to pass through from OPNsense. I know that is likely beyond the scope of this forum, but I would suspect there is something in the firewall that is preventing this from going to my unRaid server.
I am at a loss. I am happy to take suggestions. I am fairly savvy for the most part, but I may ask for clarification as I am not a super user of OPNsense in any regard
Thank you kindly
**EDIT**: I figured out what the issue was. Ultimately, as long as you keep the default firewall settings, you should be able to uninstall and reinstall AGH and it'll eventually be in a working state. However, I followed these instructions in the firewall portion:
https://homenetworkguy.com/how-to/beginners-guide-to-set-up-home-network-using-opnsense/
While they work great, they apparently prevent AdGuardHome from sarting up and running correctly. I'll continue to do research and try to figure out WHY this has happened, but I hope this helps anyone else!
I am uncertain as to how this happened, but (perhaps and almost certainly after an update) my AdGuardHome stopped working completely.
I have scoured the forums as well as looked on Reddit to find individuals who seem to have had a similar issue. However, I have noticed that while they can access their .yaml configuration for AdGuardHome, mine AdGaurdHome plugin does not load at all.
What I have tried:
1. Saving the previous working .yaml config to notepad++, uninstalling the AdguardHome plugin, restarting OPNsense.
2. When I reinstalled the AdGuardHome plugin, I made sure to check both the 'Enable' and 'Primary DNS' boxes.
3. I went to Unbound DNS, in General and changed Listen Port from 53 to 5335.
4. I attempted to access AdGuardHome via the default 192.168.1.1:3000, but it just times out.
5. I tried pinging the address from my command prompt, and it returns no results, like it cannot see the plugin running OR that it simply isn't functioning?
6. I tried SSH into OPNsense, shell command, accessing the "edit /usr/local/AdGuardHome/AdGuardHome.yaml" which opens an empty folder. I pasted my previous configuration settings from step 1 into this folder, saved and exited, but AdGuardHome does not open.
7. I tried falling back to previous historical backup to when I remember AdGuardHome working, to no avail.
At this point, I have no idea what else I can try. I considered using my unRaid server with the AdGuardHome docker on it to function in its place, but I was unable to get the DNS queries to pass through from OPNsense. I know that is likely beyond the scope of this forum, but I would suspect there is something in the firewall that is preventing this from going to my unRaid server.
I am at a loss. I am happy to take suggestions. I am fairly savvy for the most part, but I may ask for clarification as I am not a super user of OPNsense in any regard
Thank you kindly
**EDIT**: I figured out what the issue was. Ultimately, as long as you keep the default firewall settings, you should be able to uninstall and reinstall AGH and it'll eventually be in a working state. However, I followed these instructions in the firewall portion:
https://homenetworkguy.com/how-to/beginners-guide-to-set-up-home-network-using-opnsense/
While they work great, they apparently prevent AdGuardHome from sarting up and running correctly. I'll continue to do research and try to figure out WHY this has happened, but I hope this helps anyone else!
