LINUX Unplugged
648: I See Live People
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We unleash a networking monitoring tool to spot new devices, track changes in real time, and fire alerts straight into Home Assistant, MQTT, and your phone.
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Links:
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.com
- SCaLE 23x | Registration
- NetAlert X — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.
- NetAlertX Docs
- NetAlertX GitHub
- NetAlertX docker-compose.yml
- NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX
- Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs — NetAlertX comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices.
- home assistant mqtt documentation
- ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
- Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
- Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking
- ESPresense
- mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55
- Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project
- License Selector - OpenLicr
- LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform
- Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison
- GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
- Podverse Alpha
- Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
- Pick: MQTT — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
- MQTTX GitHub
- MQTT X on Flathub
- Pick: mqtt5-explorer — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
- MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub
- Pick: Unify — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami
- Unify on Flathub
- Pick: web-app-hub — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.
- Web App Hub on Flathub
- Pick: Home-manager Webapps — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system