Pi.Alert v2025-07-30

New:

• Send general status via MQTT. With the switch from Home Assistant Docker to Home Assistant OS, it became apparent that integrating Pi.Alert as a sensor is not as easy as desired, as Home Assistant OS has different requirements. For this reason, I integrated MQTT. So far, however, only the general status.
• Add button to toggle rogue dhcp search

Fixed:

• Error message for incorrect URL
• Add version switch for CryptographyDeprecationWarning in LXC environment
• Placeholder strings in modal box
• UP checkbox for new webservices
• Themes CSS

Updated:

• Documentation
• update and install script
• Language files
• jQuery from 3.4.1 to 3.5.0

Changed:

• Replacing "ping" with "fping" should make ICMP monitoring faster, as "fping" supports timeouts
• The number of DHCP server probes was reduced from 15 to 10 to further speed up the scan.

Note:

• Update install script for Helper-Scripts.com

Pi.Alert v2025-07-12

New:

• Add a button to delete the content for the "Hostname" field on the device details page
• Add Web Service Alert Only Down/Up Events (#504)
• Additional input fields for managing devices in the ICMP Monitor
• Information about the configuration of the satellites (system info page)
• Possibility to add an IP or MAC to the ignore list via the device details page
• Possibility to remove ignored MACs or IPs via the settings page

Fixed:

• Add missing shutdown and reboot pages (nl, dk, cz, pl)
• FavIcon selection
• Italian language file
• Minor html bugs

Updated:

• CSS
• Initial database
• Language files
• Minor improvements
• Notification templates
• pialert-cli
• Large improvements to the bulk editor (filter buttons, search field, unified drop-down lists)

Removed:

• Some comments

Pi.Alert v2025-06-12

New:

• Add hostname based ignore list. It is important to note that the NetBIOS host name and the DNS name may differ. Which name Pi.Alert uses for identification depends on the respective responses of the host. In the event that a device is only recognized by an arp-scan, this device is added to the database as a new device for a short period of time during the scan. As soon as the hostname resolution is complete, the device list is searched again for matches in the ignore list. If there is a match here, the device is removed from the database again. No notification is sent for this device. (#487)
• Option to delete entries from drop down menu's (#484)
• Polish, Dutch, Danish, Czech (The medium-term plan would be to cover at least the eurozone)
• Simplified activation of extended logging (Button on the Settings page)

Fixed:

• Minor fixes
• Update script and install script

Updated:

• Additional logging points have been added
• Minor UI tweaks
• Documentation
• Language files

Changed:

• Moving individual dropdown lists from the frontend to the backend
• Ignore lists collapsed by default in the status box so that the box does not expand unnecessarily
• Merge individual columns from the ICMP Monitor and Devices tables
• Add Fallback for a current problem of an external repo (IP Location DB)

Pi.Alert v2025-05-11

New:

• Add search field to debug page "test_main_tables_rawcontent"
• Allow DHCP_SERVER_ADDRESS as array (#488) thanks to @isc30
• Asus router import method (#177)
• Prepare Pi.Alert-Satellite Asus import method
• Static reboot and shutdown pages. In the case of a reboot, the dashboard is automatically reloaded when the web server is accessible again.

Fixed:

• The MAC ignore list has not processed the OpenWRT import
• The IP ignore list has not processed the OpenWRT import
• Variables "AllEvents" and "Down" were swapped (Create ICMP host).

Updated:

• Documentation
• Securing the reboot and shutdown command
• Minor tweaks

Changed:

• Active toggle buttons have a green font (settings page -> GUI)
• Active imports have a green font (settings page)
• Active scans have a green font (settings page)
• The list of maintenance functions has been revised. This was done in order to make better use of the space and to avoid unnecessarily lengthening the list.
• If a satellite has not reported a new status for more than 10 minutes, its uptime is marked red in the system overview, otherwise it is green
• The layout of the reports has been changed so that from a certain window width, 2 reports are now displayed next to each other in order to make better use of the space on the screen.

Removed:

• Documentation: API Usage for or older versions of Home Assistant (older than 2024.3)

Pi.Alert v2025-04-26

New:

• A function for downloading the GUI settings has been added
• Add new script that handles manual port changing
• Add toggle buttons for Pi-hole (network and DHCP) to settings page
• Configuring the filter buttons in the header (#472)
• Support for new Import methods of Pi.Alert-Satellite v2025-04-13

Fixed:

• Dropdown list (network relationship page)
• Hover effect on debug page table_rawcontent (small layout)
• OpenWRT scan (#479) (Thx to @Vazgen005)

Updated:

• Minor fixes and tweaks
• Update language files
• Extend API. Some keys have added together the values from local values and the values from the satellites. This is still the case, but individual values are now also output (see documentation)
• Readme and documentation (also in the context of #482)

Changed:

• Remove Pi-hole port changing during Pi.Alert update
• Exception handling regarding to #478

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Pi.Alert v2025-03-21

New:

• Add Material Design Icons for internal use
• Create a button to link Pihole in the frontend of Pi.Alert
• If the device table is wider than the page width, the online status is indicated by a colored marker at the beginning of the line.
• New debug page to check the integrity of the language files
• Moving the Pihole 6 (beta version before the official release is not supported) web interface to port 8080 when Pi.Alert is installed or updated. The Pihole 6 web interface on port 443 remains available unchanged.

Fixed:

• Install and Update script regarding to pi-hole 6 release (#452 , #457)

Updated:

• Minor tweaks
• Tweak cleanup task (#465)
• Update language files
• Added support for Pi-hole API without password (#467) (thx to @MooRogue)
• Documentation

Changed:

• Change of the web server port order, as implemented in the Pi-hole update (Pi-hole FTL v6.0.4, Web v6.0.2 and Core v6.0.5).

Removed:

• The installation of Pihole together with Pi.Alert has been removed

Note:

• The code of the maintenance page has been split up for a better overview

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Pi.Alert v2025-02-16

New:

• A "Scan Validation" has been added to mark devices that do not respond quickly enough as "offline"/"down" with an individually configurable number of subsequent scans. During the "Scan Validation", the devices are displayed as “Online*”. (#370, workaround #447)
• New page for troubleshooting on the maintenance page

Fixed:

• Layout on device details page
• Documentation
• With the introduction of the OpenWRT import, there was an error that the MAC addresses were displayed with capital letters, which in certain cases led to an incomplete display on the presence page.

Updated:

• pialert-cli
• Language files

Pi.Alert v2025-02-06

Fixed:

• Hotfix release for #448

Pi.Alert v2025-02-04

New:

• On the Events page, the events of the ICMP Monitor devices are also displayed under “All Events”. These are marked by colored “**”.
• The satellite display on the settings page supports the latest version of Pi.Alert Satellite (v2025-01-17) .
• Add buttons to toggle the various imports
• Add function to reset VOIDED Events in DB
• OpenWRT import

Fixed:

• Maintenance regarding to (#433)

Updated:

• Network page. Several networks can now be displayed in the form of separate boxes.
• A few optimizations to improve the transfer times for the data on the presence page
• General improvements on the network page
• ntfy: Added the option to use tokens (#439)
• Rework icmp details page (events)
• Update Docs

Changed:

• Only active methods are listed in the scan log now

Pi.Alert v2024-12-12

New:

• A possibility has been created to allow custom assignments between MAC prefix and manufacturer. There is a new file in the "pialert/db/" directory with the name "user_vendors.txt" for this purpose (#423). More Infos on https://github.com/leiweibau/Pi.Alert/blob/main/docs/VENDOR_ASSIGNMENT.md
• Self-test for most JSON calls has been added

Updated:

• Improve Vendor assignment
• Minor improvments
• Change some wordings
• Documentation

Changed:

• pucherot's name removed from the footer

Removed:

• The mail configuration during setup has been removed, as unfortunately a potential variable name conflict was created that was not recognized beforehand.

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