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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Pi.Alert v2024-11-11

New:

• Add link to github docs to navbar (#405)
• Option of archiving reports (manual and/or automatic). This should make it possible to remove the red badge but still retain certain notifications. The new parameter REPORT_TO_ARCHIVE has been created in the configuration file for automatic archiving.
• Keyword search in config file editor

Fixed:

• A new parameter (PIHOLE6_API_MAXCLIENTS) has been added to the configuration file in the Pi-hole section.nIn this context, a bug in the API request for Pi-hole 6 has also been fixed (#413)
• An attempt has been made to shorten the periods during which the scan blocks the database
• For web service notifications in which the SSL status code did not change, a Javascript error occurred which could lead to display problems

Updated:

• Docu
• Minor UI improvements and backend tweaks
• Extension of the journal function
• The Reports page has been revised
• Initial configuration file
• The Satellite API now returns a status code to the satellite in addition to a message

Changed:

• Unify variable names (WiP)

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Reworked notification page	New notification archive page
Keyword search in config file editor

Pi.Alert v2024-10-20

New:

• Set PHP Timezone in pialert.conf. If a time zone has already been set in php.ini, this will of course be used. If no time zone is set, i.e. PHP uses "UTC", then the time zone stored in pialert.conf is applied. (#399)
• Supports extended meta data from Pi.Alert-Satellite 2024-10-09
• Offline Mode. After the installation and the initial test of all script components, an offline mode can be configured to prevent any communication with the Internet (#401)
• Customize the heading colors on the Reports page
• If the PRINT_LOG parameter is set to True to generate an extended log, the results of the individual scans/imports are also output in the log

Fixed:

• Minor UI issues
• Address "*" as device name for new devices
• Add missing DHCP_INCL_SELF_TO_LEASES to config file editor

Updated:

• Language files

Changed:

• The update script does not perform an update as long as a scan is running. To do this, it checks for the existence of the ".scanning" file, which is created for the duration of a scan.

Removed:

• Help/FAQ. The collection of information was either not placed clearly enough or not formulated clearly enough and therefore could not reduce my workload. In order to use my time more productively, this page has now been removed. (#400)
• Database updates older than half a year have been removed from the update function (pialert-cli)

Pi.Alert v2024-09-28

New:

• API extended: Down_Devices (#391)
• Add API call for DHCP leases (#382)
• In the Trigger and Class columns in the journal, any values can now be colored as desired. It is important here that the “complete” search term is required.
• Added Coloris colorpicker (https://github.com/mdbassit/Coloris)

Fixed:

• Pi-hole V6 beta support (#382). Big thanks to @JYewdall for the troubleshooting help.

Updated:

• General documentation updates
• Screenshots
• Update Docu and Help/FAQ pages regarding to parameter in config file

Changed:

• The history graph now shows the history individually for the local scan or per satellite
• The entry “...Skipped” is now highlighted in color in the scan log
• Date and time instead of Time only (System Info page -> Satellite info)

Removed:

• Obsolete bootstrap colorpicker (Has not been used so far anyway)

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Pi.Alert v2024-09-17

New:

• The file PIALERT_CONF has been added to the documentation. It contains an overview of the parameters of the configuration file

Fixed:

• Sorting IP column was broken (#383)
• Pi-hole V6 beta support (#382)

Updated:

• Improve update process (#379)
• Language files

Pi.Alert v2024-09-01

New:

• Set default alert mode for newly added devices (#360)
• Vendor column in the Devices view (#376)

Fixed:

• Pi-Hole 6 (beta) support. Not yet productively tested. Support is in beta status.

Updated:

• Language file
• The dialog for the Wake-on-LAN function in the device list now contains the host name
• In addition to the total number of devices, the number of hidden hosts is also displayed in the navigation bar under “Presence”

Changed:

• The positions of the “MAC” and “Device Name” columns have been switched in the Report template