Have you considered moving to AdGuard Home's syntax for better wildcard support?

[DandelionSprout]

Hello.

I've been using your smart-TV list this week with my LG 43UH603V and AdGuard Home, and I've noticed that many of the LG entries are regionally determined. If #15 remains accurate, then it's not something that Pi-hole is able to do. However, in AdGuard Home, the following current entries:

us.ad.lgsmartad.com
us.ibs.lgappstv.com
us.info.lgsmartad.com
us.lgtvsdp.com
us.rdx2.lgtvsdp.com

—can successfully be turned into:

||lgsmartad.com^
||ibs.lgappstv.com^
||lgtvsdp.com^

After I then noticed that most of the Panasonic and HBBTV entries could also be turned into AGH wildcard entries, I gave the entire list my best shot, and ended up with this outcome:

# This is a blocklist to block smart tv's sending meta data at home.
# Please help to collect domains!
# It could be that the TV does not receive any more updates or other services no longer work. Please report such an incident.

# Panasonic Viera & panny tv
||0077777700140002.myhomescreen.tv^
||cert-test.sandbox.google.com^
||collect-*-fy*.myhomescreen.tv^^
||usage-*-fy*.myhomescreen.tv^
#mhc-ajax-eu.myhomescreen.tv  //  if blocked, unable to use smarttv apps e.g. Netflix, AmazonVideo as TV calls home for connection check
||mhc-ajax-us.myhomescreen.tv^
||mhc-sec-*.myhomescreen.tv^
#mhc-xpana-eu.myhomescreen.tv  //  if blocked, unable to use smarttv apps e.g. Netflix, AmazonVideo as TV calls home for connection check
||mhc-xpana-us.myhomescreen.tv^
||occ-0-399-783.1.nflxso.net^
#vcs.vdspf.com  //  if blocked, notified of new firmware but unable to download/install
||x2.vindicosuite.com^

# Sony Bravia
# needed for applications
# needed for applications, if blocked error "no internet connection"
#applicast.ga.sony.net
#portal.store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com
||ad8641f3cff742de893d919add74c2bb.ssm*.internet.sony.tv^
||api-mf1.meta.ndmdhs.com^
||b02.black.ndmdhs.com^
||bravia.dl.playstation.net^
||call.me.sel.sony.com^
||flingo.tv^
||sonybivstatic-a.akamaihd.net^
||ssm1.internet.sony.tv^
||facemap.foldlife.net^
||bdcore-apr-lb.bda.ndmdhs.com^

# LG
||ad.lgappstv.com^
||ibis.lgappstv.com^
||lgad.cjpowercast.com.edgesuite.net^
||ngfts.lge.com^
||smartclip.com^
||smartclip.net^
||smartshare.lgtvsdp.com^
||lgsmartad.com^
||ibs.lgappstv.com^
||lgtvsdp.com^
||yumenetworks.com^

# Philips
||deviceportal.nettvservices.com^
||epg.corio.com^
||legacyportal.nettvservices.com^
||nettv.corio.com^
||www.ecdinterface.philips.com^

# Samsung
||samsungcloudsolution.*^
! If blocked, services like Plex, YouTube and Amazon Video not working anymore on some Samsung TV's
@@||time.samsungcloudsolution.com^
||samsungadhub.com^
||samsungads.com^
||api-hub.samsungyosemite.com^
#auth.samsungosp.com // if blocked, samsung accounts will fail to authenticate
||az43064.vo.msecnd.net^
||Coordinator-Production-28516768.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com^
||cpu.samsungelectronics.com^
||d179kwmlpc4o47.cloudfront.ne^
||d179kwmlpc4o47.cloudfront.net^
||d1jwpcr0q4pcq0.cloudfront.net^
||d1oxlq5h9kq8q5.cloudfront.net^
||d2tnx644ijgq6i.cloudfront.net^
||d3mjsomixevyw7.cloudfront.net^
||d37ju0xanoz6gh.cloudfront.net^
||dev-multiscreen.samsung.com^
||device-metrics-us.amazon.com^
||game.internetat.tv^
||gld.samsungosp.com^
||i-stream.pl^
||log-*.samsungacr.com^
||log.internetat.tv^
||multiscreen.samsung.com^
||ns11.whois.co.kr^
||openapi.samsung.com^
||pavv.co.kr^
||pipeaota.com^
||premium-videos.telly.com^
||samsungacr.com^
#samsungosp.com
||samsungotn.net^
||samsungqbe.com^
||samsungrm.net^
||sca.samsung.com^
||sso.internetat.tv^
||syncplusconfig.s3.amazonaws.com^
||targeted-config-test.samsungacr.com^
||test.samsungrm.net^
||us-api.samsungyosemite.com^
||vd.emp.prd.s3.amazonaws.com^
samsungelectronics.com
||apu.samsungelectronics.com^
||bpu.samsungelectronics.com^
||dpu.samsungelectronics.com^
||kpu.samsungelectronics.com^
||upu.samsungelectronics.com^
||zpu.samsungelectronics.com^
||xpu.samsungelectronics.com^
||ypu.samsungelectronics.com^
||vd.contents.prod.eu.s3.amazonaws.com^
||log-ingestion-eu.samsungacr.com^

# HBBTV
||cdn.hbbtv.smartclip.net^
||hbbtv-1.eurosport.com^
||hbbtv-extern-fe01.sim-technik.de^
||hbbtv-track.redbutton.de^
||hbbtv.*.de^
||hbbtv01p.anixe.net^
||hbbtvapp.sonnenklar.tv^
||scheduler.hbbtv.smartclip.net^
||stats.hbbtv.smartclip.net^
||p-hbbtv.superrtl.de^

# Other useless connections from Smart-TV
||ad.71i.de^
||api.nfl.com^
# apicache.vudu.com # needed for vudu app see issue22
||cdn.smartclip.net^
||cdns-content.dzcdn.net^
||cert-test.sandbox.google.com^
||database01p.anixe.net^
||de.ioam.de^
#drscdn.500px.org # blocks 500px on desktop
||geo.opera.com^
||googleads.g.doubleclick.net^
||itv.ard.de^
||nbc-jite.nbcuni.com^
||redbutton-adproxy-lb-prod.redbutton.de^
||redbutton-lb-prod.redbutton.de^
||redbutton.sim-technik.de^
||script.ioam.de^
||start.digitaltext.rtl.de^
||stats-irl.sxp.smartclip.net^
||tv-static.scdn.co^
||tv.deezer.com^
||xml.opera.com^

# Netflix
# secure, api-global, and appboot break Netflix
#secure.netflix.com                   
#api-global.netflix.com
#appboot.netflix.com
||ichnaea.netflix.com^
||customerevents.netflix.com^
||nrdp.nccp.netflix.com^

# Spotify
||api-tv.spotify.com^

# Hulu
||api.distribution.hulu.com^

# Sharp Smart TV using Opera OS (thanks to sml156)
# time-a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov          # probably not a good idea to block this one
# api.accuweather.com                  # probably not a good idea to block this one

# These may be needed for software/firmware updates, not sure if it's one or both but the first one tries thousands of times a day to connect.
||api.us.hismarttv.com^
||api.euro.hismarttv.com^

I took a long shot on Samsung by simply blocking all samsungcloudsolution addresses except for time.. I haven't yet tested if this has a negative effect on anything or not, so you're of course welcome to adjust this whichever way you like if you decide to go for it.

I have quite some experience with hosting and making lists of my own, but you seem to be updating your list far more frequently than what I could've done with a smart-TV list, so I figured I could ask you about it.

[Perflyst]

I have not, I also do not used AdGuard yet. For the moment I will keep this open and maybe test it at some time.

[Perflyst]

Just noticed pihole does not support these kind of lists, it has to be either in host list format or just domains

[DandelionSprout]

That is indeed the case. I tend to consider AdGuard Home to be superior to Pi-hole mostly due to how the former supports ||example.org^-type entries and lists.

[DandelionSprout]

I'm closing this myself in favour of #38.