The original post: /r/pihole by /u/derFensterputzer on 2024-12-24 14:20:36.

Hey everyone.

I’ve searched the internet for quite a while now and can’t find any solution to my patricular problem:

I’m running a Raspberry Pi 5 with Raspberry PI OS.

Downloaded and installed the homeassistant aarch64 image from their GitHub.

The Pi is running the PiHole (just for DNS, DHCP is handled by the router) and inside Virt-Manager HomeAssistant as a VM.

The VM uses a bridged network connection (virbr0).

PI itself is connected via Ethernet, Wireless is not used.

Both devices have seperate and static IP Adresses.

Both devices can successfully be pinged.

In the PiHole web interface on the local DNS Page I added homeassistant.local and mapped it to the IP of the Bridge.

Still, If I try to connect to HomeAssistant Brave gives me this error: “homeassistant.local’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem.”

Do you have any idea what could be the cause here?