# I See Live People

URL: /show/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.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 648
- Date: 2026-01-04
- Hosts: brent, chris, wes
- Duration: 01:01:42
- Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/51d896f5-4ef6-4dc2-8cc9-8ed448be8210.mp3


Transcripts: [text/vtt](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/51d896f5-4ef6-4dc2-8cc9-8ed448be8210.vtt) [application/x-subrip](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/51d896f5-4ef6-4dc2-8cc9-8ed448be8210.srt)


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### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged  on Fountain.FM")
* [Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.com](https://sessionize.com/planet-nix-2026/ "Planet Nix 2026: Call for Proposals @ Sessionize.com")
* [SCaLE 23x | Registration](https://register.socallinuxexpo.org/reg23/ "SCaLE 23x | Registration")
* [NetAlert X](https://netalertx.com/ "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](https://jokob-sk.github.io/NetAlertX/ "NetAlertX Docs")
* [NetAlertX GitHub](https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX "NetAlertX GitHub")
* [NetAlertX docker-compose.yml](https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docker-compose.yml "NetAlertX docker-compose.yml")
* [NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX](https://gist.github.com/noblepayne/8d03d07f44219d73d4abdb9c5430a6b3 "NixOS OCI Config for NetAlertX")
* [Home Assistant - NetAlertX Docs](https://jokob-sk.github.io/NetAlertX/HOME_ASSISTANT/ "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](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/ "home assistant mqtt documentation")
* [ntfy.sh](https://ntfy.sh/ "ntfy.sh") — Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
* [Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker](https://github.com/eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto "Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker")
* [Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking](https://pi-hole.net/ "Pi-hole – Network-wide Ad Blocking")
* [ESPresense](https://espresense.com/ "ESPresense")
* [mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55](https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook/issues/55 "mkellyxp/nixbook: LICENSE? - Issue #55")
* [Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project](https://www.choosingalicense.com/ "Choosing a License - Find the Perfect Open Source License for Your Project")
* [License Selector - OpenLicr](https://openlicr.com/en-US/selector "License Selector - OpenLicr")
* [LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform](https://licensehub.org/en/licenses/compare "LicenseHub - Open Source License Tools Platform")
* [Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison](https://osssoftware.org/blog/open-source-licenses-explained-a-comparison/ "Open Source Licenses Explained: A Comparison")
* [GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses](https://github.com/ErikMcClure/bad-licenses/tree/master "GitHub - ErikMcClure/bad-licenses") — A compendium of absurd "open-source" licenses.
* [Podverse Alpha](https://alpha.podverse.fm/ "Podverse Alpha")
* [Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap](https://pod.link/podcasting2.0/episode/UEMyMC0yNDY "Podcasting 2.0 Episode 246: Crap Trap") — Adam & Dave are joined by Mitch and Archie of Podverse fame
* [Pick: MQTT](https://mqttx.app/ "Pick: MQTT") — Your All-in-one MQTT Client Toolbox
* [MQTTX GitHub](https://github.com/emqx/MQTTX "MQTTX GitHub")
* [MQTT X on Flathub](https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.emqx.MQTTX "MQTT X on Flathub")
* [Pick: mqtt5-explorer](https://github.com/Omniaevo/mqtt5-explorer "Pick: mqtt5-explorer") — MQTT5 Explorer is a simple yet feature-rich client to visualize data of any MQTT broker.
* [MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub](https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.Omniaevo.mqtt5-explorer "MQTT5 Explorer on Flathub")
* [Pick: Unify](https://github.com/DenysMb/Unify "Pick: Unify") — Unify is a web app aggregator built with Qt 6, Qt WebEngine, and Kirigami
* [Unify on Flathub](https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.denysmb.unify "Unify on Flathub")
* [Pick: web-app-hub](https://github.com/pvermeer/web-app-hub "Pick: web-app-hub") — A Web App Manager, written in rust with GTK and beautiful Adwaita.
* [Web App Hub on Flathub](https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.pvermeer.WebAppHub "Web App Hub on Flathub")
* [Pick: Home-manager Webapps](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/4921387 "Pick: Home-manager Webapps") — Home-manager configuration file to get webapps in the system menu on a NixOS system