Is there a decent free / inexpensive and self-hosted piece of software that can detect new network devices and send me notifications? sms or discord preferred, but email would also work. Looking for something running on my pfsense firewall/gateway or something running on a proxmox device on a vlan that’s allowed to access all other vlans and subnets.
Software I have tried and failed: fing only looks at the current subnet, and lansweeper allows too few devices for my homelab on their free version. also idk if these have the notifications I want.
home labber here living off disability, so crazy expensive business-priced solutions aren’t going to work for me.
I don’t know about arpwatch on pfsense, but setting it up on Linux allows it to send emails.
Whether arpwatch can do VLANs depends on where you run it and what interfaces the host has. Your router naturally has all your VLANs, a linux server probably won’t unless you put it in all VLANs intentionally.
That’s right. While I set up notifications in pfsense, gmail had changed how this should be done which I hadn’t noticed. Now with an application gmail password and arpwatch I get an email when a new device connects.
The fact that I don’t at all remember you responding to me and me responding to you should tell you just how much stress I’ve been through w/ my multiple hospitalizations, including a recent hospitalization for pneumonia + sepsis. They were putting multiple IV sites in me because they didn’t have time to wait for one IV antibiotic to end before starting the next in order to save me.
There was also the hospitalization where I lost all function in my leg and I guess if you want to try to find a silver lining… um… I get to park a little closer to builidngs now??? lol.
Anyway, thanks again for sharing and I’ll get working on it… better late than never.
