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Pi.Alert - Device Management

To edit device information:

  • Select "Devices" in the menu on the left of the screen
  • Find the device you want to edit in the central table
  • Go to the device page by clicking on the device name or status
  • Press "Details" tab of the device
  • Edit the device data
  • Press the "Save" button

Device Details

Main Info

  • MAC: MAC addres of the device. Not editable.
  • Name: Friendly device name
  • Owner: Device owner (The list is self-populated with existing owners)
  • Type: Select a device type from the dropdown list (Smartphone, Table, Laptop, TV, router, ....) or type a new device type
  • Vendor: Automatically updated by Pi.Alert when empty
  • Model: The model name to describe the device in more detail
  • Serial Number: Here you can enter any existing serial number for unique identification
  • Group: Select a grouper ('Always on', 'Personal', Friends') or type your own Group name
  • Location: Select a location ('Hall', 'Kitchen', ....) of the device
  • Comments: Type any comments for the device

Session Info

  • Status: Show device status : On-line / Off-Line
  • First Session: Date and time of the first connection
  • Last Session: Date and time of the last connection
  • Last IP: Last known IP used during the last connection
  • Static IP: Check this box to identify devices that always use the same IP

Events & Alerts config

  • Scan Cycle: Select the scan cycle: 0, 1'
  • Alert All Events: Send a notification in each event (connection, disconnection, IP Changed, ...)
  • Alert Down: Send a notification when the device is down
    • (Userful with "always connected" devices: Router, AP, Camera, Alexa, ...)
  • Skip repeated notifications during: Do not send more than one notification to this device for X hours
    • (Useful to avoid notification saturation on devices that frequently connects and disconnects)
  • Favorite: Mark the device as favorite and then it will appears at the begining of the device list

Random MAC's

These random MACs are used for software-based network interfaces. Here, however, Random does not mean that they necessarily change every time, but merely that they were created randomly. Such Random MACs can currently be recognized by the characters "2", "6", "A", or "E" as the 2nd character in the Mac address.

The newer versions of some operating systems (IOS and Android) also have a function to improve data protection: Random MACs. This functionality allows you to hide the true MAC of the device and assign a random MAC when we connect to WIFI networks.

This behavior is especially useful when connecting to WIFI's that we do not know, but it is totally useless when connecting to our own WIFI's or known networks.

I recommend disabling this operation when connecting our devices to our own WIFI's, in this way, Pi.Alert will be able to identify the device, and it will not identify it as a new device every so often (every time IOS or Android decides to change the MAC).

IOS

ios

Android

Android

License

GPL 3.0 Read more here

Suggestions and comments are welcome