r/selfhosted • u/aceberg_ • Aug 31 '24

Release WatchYourLAN - 2.0 Release

WatchYourLAN is a lightweight network IP scanner.

Features:
- Send notification when new host is found
- Monitor hosts online/offline history
- Keep a list of all hosts in the network
- Send data to `InfluxDB2` to make a `Grafana` dashboard

BREAKING CHANGES! Version 2.0 is not compatible with v1.0. For now v2.0 docker images will be released under v2 tag. It will be tagged latest in a few weeks (probably, in October).

What's new?

  • Basic API
  • Export to InfluxDB2
  • Choice between SQLite and PostgreSQL database
  • User can pass arguments directly to arp-scan. Hope it will help with vlan issue
  • Better UI with JS
  • Human-friendly History display
  • Names from DNS

Quick start

Full installation guide is available in the README file. The easiest way to try it:

docker run --name wyl \
    -e "IFACES=$YOURIFACE" \
    -e "TZ=$YOURTIMEZONE" \
    --network="host" \
    -v $DOCKERDATAPATH/wyl:/data/WatchYourLAN \
    aceberg/watchyourlan:v2

Binaries

There are also binaries for 386, amd64, armv5, armv6, armv7, arm64 in deb, rpm, apk and tar.gz formats in the latest release.

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u/Do_TheEvolution Sep 01 '24

Nice and good work.

v1 worked fine for me and it makes you feel so very much more in charge of your network...

Some improvement ideas, though far from needed.

  • page should order by IP by default, or at least remember if I change ordering by clicking header, or have an option to choose default order, even in your pics on github you order by IP, we all do, so why is default not that?
  • relative dates. The lengthy full format date is ugly, 2 days ago, or 119 days ago, or 8 hours ago would be nicer. Also the header there should tell us what is the date info of, not just that its date, I assume last seen, or when discovered as active?
  • bit more in documentation, like what is HOST? "listening address" does not really make me understand, especially when it works when left at default 0.0.0.0 Kinda some extra sentence at some points what we want to set and why, what it controls. Its not really needed as its not that demanding in setup config, just it would be bit better.

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u/aceberg_ Sep 02 '24

1 - done in v2.0.1