I would second Adguard Home. They have a lot of presets for blocking online services. You can add persistent clients, which can be identified with MAC/IP, select the presets you want to disable, and also have custom block/access rules for those clients.
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Adguard home maybe?
What’s your problem with PiHole? Why do you need Cron jobs? I’m quite happy with PiHole. If you like, I can try to help you with some questions there.
Cron jobs are mainly for enabling and disabling internet access by mac address on a schedule. I also like that these commercial products force search to google or duckduckgo safe search, and youtube to youtube restricted on a per user basis (which really could be done by mac address). I mean I can prob do all this with firewall rules myself. But a slick web interface would be cool.
In Pi-Hole you can define groups and add devices to them and then assign block lists to those groups. I'm not sure if all your use cases are covered. Maybe you can check their discourse to see if others have found a decent way. The web interface is quite nice from my point of view.
https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/block-internet-access-at-certain-times/12036
Didn't know there was a discourse. Thanks!
You might be able to create a cool setup with Adguard home or pihole and home assistant.
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