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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