LUP 648: I See Live People¶
- Air Date: 2026-01-04
- Duration: 61 mins 42 secs
About this episode¶
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.
Your hosts¶
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Episode 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
Tags¶
dns, enterprise-d boost, foss license, holiday homelab, home assistant, home automation, home lab, iot, jupiter broadcasting, linux podcast, linux unplugged, mosquitto mqtt, mqtt, mqtt5 explorer, mqttx, netalertx, network monitoring, nixbook, nixos, ntfy, open source, open source license, pi-hole, podverse, presence awareness, presence detection, self-hosted, unify, web app aggregator, web app hub