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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