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You cannot put pihole on a router but yes, those are good ideas. A router with openwrt will have VPN settings, as do many proprietary ones. Alternatively, you could look into opnsense, which is router software on computer hardware (not a router), which you could also put pihole on. I'd say it's way more tricky though.
I was under the impression that everyone had this setup. What is everyone else's setup?
BTW, I read this and was under the impression it was possible. There was talk of it not being possible with newer versions, but this says otherwise.
Home labbing is so confusing ๐ฅฒ
Given how important a router is and how easy it is for something to wrong with this, even with just a random update, I'd personally not even try this. I actually just use a tp link omada business router as my family wouldn't be too happy if the internet is broken. It has VPN and I just bought a couple access points so I can improve the WiFi whilst setting up vlans to compartmentalise smart home devices. Everything else is nice to have but if something goes wrong with the services below overnight and I need to work from home, at least I can just switch them off until I got time to fix them.
I got a cheap second hand thin client off eBay for pihole and home assistant (using proxmox), and another custom desktop acting as a headless server with the rest of my services running in docker (plex and arr stack, vaultwarden, nextcloud, imich, loads others etc. It allows flexibility so if the server goes down, or runs out of memory, or I'm messing around and broke it, my family's streaming isn't impacted.