I See Live People | LINUX Unplugged 648

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 (strike.me)
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM (fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov)
• Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.com (sessionize.com/planet-nix-2026)
• SCaLE 23x | Registration (register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg23)
• NetAlert X (netalertx.com) — Network intruder and presence detector. Scans for devices connected to your network and alerts you if new and unknown devices are found.
• NetAlertX Docs (jokob-sk.github.io/NetAlertX)
• NetAlertX GitHub (github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX)
• NetAlertX docker-compose.yml (github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docker…)
• NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX (gist.github.com/noblepayne/8d03d07f44219d73d4a…)
• Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs (jokob-sk.github.io/NetAlertX/HOME_ASSISTANT) — 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 (home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt)
• ntfy.sh — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
• Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker (github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto)
• Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking (pi-hole.net)
• ESPresense (espresense.com)
• mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55 (github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook/issues/55)
• Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project (choosingalicense.com)
• License Selector - OpenLicr (openlicr.com/en-US/selector)
• LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform (licensehub.org/en/licenses/compare)
• Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison (osssoftware.org/blog/open-source-licenses-expl…)
• GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses (github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/tree/master) — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
• Podverse Alpha (alpha.podverse.fm)
• Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap (pod.link/podcasting2.0/episode/UEMyMC0yNDY) — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
• Pick: MQTT (mqttx.app) — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
• MQTTX GitHub (github.com/emqx/MQTTX)
• MQTT X on Flathub (flathub.org/en/apps/com.emqx.MQTTX)
• Pick: mqtt5-explorer (github.com/Omniaevo/mqtt5-explorer) — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
• MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub (flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.Omniaevo.mqtt5-e…)
• Pick: Unify (github.com/DenysMb/Unify) — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami
• Unify on Flathub (flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.denysmb.unify)
• Pick: web-app-hub (github.com/pvermeer/web-app-hub) — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.
• Web App Hub on Flathub (flathub.org/en/apps/org.pvermeer.WebAppHub)
• Pick: Home-manager Webapps (gitlab.com/-/snippets/4921387) — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system