Temporarily disable with API (and via UI)

[shapiro125]

In order to make this work, we need to change how the "Disable protection" button looks like.

Use the same approach as for the "Block" button in the Query Log:

There's a fixed list of options that can be used:

• Pause for 30 seconds
• Pause for 1 minute
• Pause for 10 minutes
• Pause for 1 hour
• Pause until tomorrow

When the protection is paused temporarily, "Enable protection" button becomes a countdown:

Original feature request text (replaced by @ameshkov)

Hello -- I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to disable AdGuard Home temporarily within the API. For example, Pi-hole allows disabling for some number of seconds through theirs (http://pi.hole/admin/api.php?disable=300). Unless I'm missing something, I've only figured out how to switch on vs off or make a script that switches it off, sleeps for a certain number of seconds, and then switches it back on.

Thanks!

[ameshkov]

Yeah, there's no such API method at the moment, start-sleep-stop is the only way.

[shapiro125]

Thanks!

[szolin]

Can we close this issue? I doubt that we really need a new API method to temporarily disable the filtering.

[ameshkov]

It depends on the users. If there will be upvotes, we'll consider it.

Generally, I'd better keep all feature requests open until we are 100% sure that we won't do it.

[Klizzy]

i would like to see this feature too!

[lolgast1987]

I'd like this feature too

[SwissOS]

I would really like this feature too. The scenario is like this: I can easily turn on/off AdGuard Home from the web interface, but my wife/kids are not so technical. I could then just make a shortcut on their iphone to turn off the filtering for a short time (say 5 minutes) to test if AdGuard is blocking the website they want to visit.
What do you think?

[ameshkov]

Guys, please add upvotes then (upvote reaction on the issue)

[Aikatsui]

Alternative UI solution #997 #1203 #1450

but my wife/kids are not so technical.

@danielp123 I understand but you may able to create account for them and add a timed allow list with single rule to unblock all domains for 5min. In this cause; i'm not prefer to see AGH become too simple tool.

[WildByDesign]

@ameshkov Along with this feature request to temporarily disable filtering via API, and a good reason for making this feature, would be to integrate this "Temporarily disable AdGuard Home DNS filtering protection" API feature into AdGuard for Windows, AdGuard browser extensions, etc.

I am a long time user of AdGuard for Windows. Quite often, I have to temporarily disable the AGH DNS filtering because it causes problems on kids iPad games and certain things that other users may need to do from time to time.

This may be a tricky request though, in that regard.

[shapiro125]

@ameshkov – I know this issue has gone to a bunch of different places, but I've been using:

curl -X POST "http://[URL]/control/dns_config" -H "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"protection_enabled\": false}"

to enable and disable filtering. Unfortunately, I've noticed that even though filtering is now disabled, the domain is cached as blocked so you have to wait for the cache to clear before the domain will work again. Is this a separate issue that I should file or is there a different API call to turn AdGuard Home off?

Thanks for everything, it's a great piece of software.

[szolin]

domain is cached as blocked

@shapiro125 Do you mean browser's cache? Please try requesting the host name via nslookup or dig - what are the results?