I recently learned about LocalSend and was intrigued by how it functioned by only using the WiFi network of the devices. I did not know my LAN had these capabilities.

Now that I’ve learned about it, I am excited to know if there is anything else I can do with it. Perhaps there could be a way to send prank notifications to all the connected devices, create a private chat room, or have custom LAN parties.

I genuinely do not know anything about how WiFi or LAN in general works in this matter. Is it possible for me to build my own applications that make use of these features? If so, I would love to get a direction on what resources or guides I should be looking for. If not, I would still be happy to use similar pre-built applications.

  • Sundial@lemm.ee
    25·
    2 months ago

    You can buy a raspberry pi and have Pihole setup on it. It’ll act as your local dns server and block any ad domains for the whole household.

    • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 months ago

      I had done this for several years but recently I’m running into the issue where my home router won’t let me specify a DNS server that is on the same subnet. I dont have multiple networks running at home so I can’t make a Pihole work anymore.

      • Sundial@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        That’s a weird situation. Have you tried spinning up a second subnet on your modem?

      • towerful@programming.dev
        2·
        2 months ago

        You can set a static IP on the router, disable it’s DHCP, and have pihole manage DHCP with the routers static IP as the gateway