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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: porchwatch
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+ Version: 0.1.0
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+ Summary: Private, passive home-LAN newcomer notices
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Requires-Dist: tomli>=2; python_version < "3.11"
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+ Dynamic: license-file
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+
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+ # Porch Watch
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+
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+ Porch Watch notices new MAC addresses in the existing home-LAN neighbor cache.
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+ Initialize it once at home to mark current devices as known, then review newcomer
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+ notices and add your own labels. A randomized MAC gets an informational notice:
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+ phones often rotate private MACs, so a new address need not mean a new device.
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+
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+ Built and maintained by Dragon Lady — [GitHub](https://github.com/Dragon-Lady).
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+
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+ ## Posture
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+
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+ - Linux first, Python 3.10 or newer. Apache-2.0.
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+ - Passive by default: reads kernel neighbor/routing tables without sending
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+ discovery packets. No telemetry, DNS lookups, hostnames, mDNS, DHCP scraping,
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+ router login, blocking, port scans, OS fingerprinting, or service discovery.
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+ - Only its own state and explicitly requested local reports are written.
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+ Configuration and local vendor tables are read-only. There is no root use.
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+ - Alert delivery is opt-in through `alert_channels`. Active host discovery is
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+ separately opt-in with `scan --active`. Neither is enabled by a printed timer.
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+ - Local state/report metadata includes MACs, last IPs, user labels, vendor,
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+ randomized flag, and first/last observation rounded down to the UTC hour.
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+ These reports are private. No packet contents or address history are kept.
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+ - Off-box alerts contain only newcomer counts, rule ID, and severity. They never
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+ contain MACs, IPs, labels, vendors, paths, hostnames, or machine identifiers.
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+ - Recognized provider-token shapes in labels/vendor text and configured alert
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+ credentials are replaced by keyed fingerprints. Never enter passwords or
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+ arbitrary secrets as device labels: this is not a general secret detector.
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+ - The home gateway uses an HMAC-SHA256 fingerprint (`fp:` plus 16 hex digits)
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+ with a private random 32-byte key. No plain hash is used.
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+ - State directory: 0700. Every state/report file: 0600 at creation. Unsafe
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+ existing modes are refused; source permissions are never changed. Reports
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+ are create-only and cannot overwrite an existing file or tool state.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ Install the published package, or install from a source checkout:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ python3 -m pip install porchwatch==0.1.0
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ python3 -m venv .venv
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+ .venv/bin/python -m pip install .
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+ .venv/bin/porchwatch --help
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+ ```
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+
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+ Runtime uses the standard library and `tomli` only on Python 3.10. Building uses
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+ setuptools; tests use pytest. No packages are installed during a scan. On Linux,
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+ iproute2 supplies the passive `ip` commands; nmap is optional and is never
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+ installed or elevated by Porch Watch.
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+
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+ ## Commands
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+
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+ Run `init` only while connected to the home network you intend to monitor. It
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+ trusts that network as home; it cannot determine that a network belongs to you.
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ porchwatch init
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+ porchwatch scan
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+ porchwatch scan --format html --output porchwatch-report.html
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+ porchwatch list --unlabeled --since 7d
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+ porchwatch label 00:11:22:33:44:66 "Living room TV"
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+ porchwatch known 00:11:22:33:44:66
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+ porchwatch report --since 7d
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+ porchwatch report --send
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+ porchwatch forget 00:11:22:33:44:66
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+ porchwatch print-timer --interval 15m
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+ ```
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+
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+ All commands accept `--format text|json|md|html` and `--output FILE`. Output is
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+ also printed to stdout. Labels are escaped in HTML/Markdown output; text output
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+ removes control characters. `--since` filters by last observation, with UTC-hour
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+ precision; it is not a scan-history view. `report --send` retries only pending
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+ notices in that report's selected window.
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+
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+ `init` imports every current device as unlabeled-known and sends no alerts. It
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+ will never overwrite existing initialization. Each subsequently discovered MAC
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+ is alerted once per configured channel. Successful channel receipts persist;
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+ failed channels retry on `scan` or `report --send`. Labeling or marking a device
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+ known suppresses pending notices. Forgetting removes its record and delivery
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+ receipts, allowing a fresh notice if it is observed again. Changing/rotating a
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+ channel's destination does not replay already delivered notices for that channel.
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+
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+ For a first home baseline, keep remote alert channels disabled, run `init` while
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+ present on the intended network, and review `list` before configuring delivery
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+ or a timer. The operator decides which devices are normal; the tool cannot make
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+ that judgment.
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+
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+ Exit status: `0` no newly observed MACs (or not home), `1` newcomer(s), `2`
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+ usage/runtime/alert-delivery error. An alert failure does not drop the newcomer:
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+ the next run retries it. A fresh scan with only already-notified devices exits 0.
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+
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+ ## Home-network guard
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+
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+ Before writing state, a key, a report, or delivery receipts, and before sending
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+ alerts, Porch Watch requires an existing neighbor-cache MAC for the IPv4 default
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+ gateway. A unique default interface and connected gateway subnet must be present.
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+ The gateway fingerprint and subnet must match the initialized home identity.
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+ Missing, ambiguous, or mismatched identity yields `not home`, exit 0, no alert,
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+ and no writes. `init` with insufficient evidence exits 2 and creates nothing.
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+ It never probes a missing gateway to make the guard pass.
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+
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+ The guard also covers `label`, `known`, `forget`, and report file output. Lists
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+ and local reports conservatively return `not home` when identity is unknown.
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+ Printing a timer to stdout needs no network or initialization. An interrupted
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+ initialization or missing key is not silently repaired; preserve the state for
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+ inspection and recovery. Deliberately re-initializing on a different network
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+ requires you to archive the old private state yourself.
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+
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+ Home identity is advisory: cached entries can be stale, MACs can be spoofed, and
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+ a router replacement looks like a different home. Checks are snapshots, repeated
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+ before active discovery, state writes, and alert delivery; no user-space tool can
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+ atomically bind routing changes and an external delivery transaction. A crash
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+ after remote acceptance but before saving a receipt can produce a retry. There
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+ is no claim of exactly-once delivery across crashes or provider timeouts.
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+
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+ ## Passive and active coverage
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+
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+ Passive mode runs only these read operations (actual executable path resolved
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+ locally):
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+
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+ ```text
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+ ip -j -4 route show table all
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+ ip -j neigh show
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+ ip -j -4 rule show
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+ ```
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+
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+ Neighbor states REACHABLE, STALE, DELAY, and PERMANENT are accepted. FAILED,
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+ INCOMPLETE, and other states are ignored. IPv4 and IPv6 cache entries on the
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+ selected interface are deduplicated by MAC; one deterministic last IP is stored,
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+ preferring IPv4. IPv6-only home-gateway initialization is not supported in v0.1.
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+ Without `ip`, `/proc/net/route` and `/proc/net/arp` provide an IPv4-only passive
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+ fallback; proc files are accessed through this process's numeric proc directory
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+ to avoid following `/proc/net` symlinks. No root or nmap is needed for passive use.
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+ Cache visibility is limited: a silent device may never appear, and a disappearing
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+ device is not considered removed. This is not an exhaustive network inventory.
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+
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+ For an explicit local host-discovery run:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ porchwatch scan --active
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+ ```
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+
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+ The only permitted discovery command is `nmap -sn -n <subnet>`. There is no
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+ user-supplied target, additional flag, port scan, DNS, or privilege elevation.
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+ Only an exact, directly connected RFC1918 IPv4 subnet on the default-route
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+ interface, at /22 or smaller, passes. All-table route evidence and standard
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+ IPv4 policy rules are required. Public, CGNAT, link-local, overly broad,
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+ overlapping, other-interface, multipath, or policy-routing ambiguity fails closed.
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+ The proc fallback cannot authorize active mode. If the subnet is safe but nmap
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+ is missing, the command reports `nmap not installed; passive fallback`.
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+
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+ After discovery, Porch Watch rechecks home identity and reads the kernel cache;
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+ it does not ingest nmap's output or hostnames. Unprivileged nmap host discovery
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+ may use TCP connection probes and may find fewer devices than privileged ARP
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+ discovery. `-sn` disables the port-scan phase; it does not mean no TCP packets.
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+ See the [ip neighbor manual](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip-neighbour.8.html)
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+ and [nmap host-discovery reference](https://nmap.org/book/man-host-discovery.html).
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+
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+ Vendor lookup uses only `/usr/share/ieee-data/oui.txt` or
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+ `/usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes` if present and under the 5 MB read limit.
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+ Locally administered MACs do not receive an OUI vendor guess. Missing vendor
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+ data is harmless; it is never downloaded.
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+
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+ ## Configuration and state
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+
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+ Configuration defaults to `~/.config/porchwatch/config.toml`; state defaults to
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+ `~/.local/state/porchwatch/`. `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` and `XDG_STATE_HOME` are respected.
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+ An alternate config is selected before the command:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ porchwatch --config ~/.config/porchwatch/config.toml scan
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+ ```
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+
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+ Configuration must be owned by the current user, 0600, and a regular file.
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+ Porch Watch does not create or edit it. [examples/config.toml](examples/config.toml)
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+ documents the accepted keys. An absent config, empty `alert_channels`, or
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+ `["stdout"]` keeps alert handling local. There are no per-MAC remote payloads.
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+
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+ Slack webhooks, ntfy tokens, and SMTP passwords come from environment variable
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+ **names**, never inline config credentials. HTTP endpoints require HTTPS except
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+ on literal loopback/localhost; redirects are rejected. SMTP requires TLS except
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+ on loopback. Delivery has a 5-second timeout per channel. Error messages do not
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+ echo provider errors, URLs, labels, or credential values.
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+
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+ Private state consists of:
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+
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+ | File | Contents |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `devices.json` | Only MAC, first_seen, last_seen, label, vendor, randomized, last_ip per device |
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+ | `home.json` | Gateway MAC HMAC and initialized subnet |
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+ | `fp.key` | Random 32-byte HMAC key |
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+ | `alerts.json` | HMAC identities of known devices and permanent channel delivery receipts |
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+ | `lock` | Empty advisory lock, preventing overlapping local state updates |
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+
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+ The extra receipt state is necessary to keep the specified device schema intact
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+ while supporting known devices, once-per-channel notices, and failure retries.
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+ No report/history file is automatically accumulated.
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+
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+ ## Scheduling and verification
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+
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+ `print-timer` prints a systemd **user** service and timer; it installs or enables
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+ nothing. The printed service expects a `~/.local/bin/porchwatch` executable:
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+ adjust its path to your chosen environment before a separate manual installation.
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+ It treats finding exit code 1 as success and runs passive scans only. Configure
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+ remote channels and their environment separately before scheduling if desired.
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ python -m pytest
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+ ```
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+
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+ Tests use a fake HOME/XDG tree, fixture routes/neighbors, mocked commands and
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+ alert endpoints. They do not initialize a real network, execute nmap, install
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+ timers, send alerts, or touch the real home. Installing the package does not
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+ enable monitoring.
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+ # Porch Watch
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+
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+ Porch Watch notices new MAC addresses in the existing home-LAN neighbor cache.
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+ Initialize it once at home to mark current devices as known, then review newcomer
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+ notices and add your own labels. A randomized MAC gets an informational notice:
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+ phones often rotate private MACs, so a new address need not mean a new device.
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+
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+ Built and maintained by Dragon Lady — [GitHub](https://github.com/Dragon-Lady).
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+
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+ ## Posture
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+
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+ - Linux first, Python 3.10 or newer. Apache-2.0.
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+ - Passive by default: reads kernel neighbor/routing tables without sending
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+ discovery packets. No telemetry, DNS lookups, hostnames, mDNS, DHCP scraping,
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+ router login, blocking, port scans, OS fingerprinting, or service discovery.
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+ - Only its own state and explicitly requested local reports are written.
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+ Configuration and local vendor tables are read-only. There is no root use.
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+ - Alert delivery is opt-in through `alert_channels`. Active host discovery is
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+ separately opt-in with `scan --active`. Neither is enabled by a printed timer.
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+ - Local state/report metadata includes MACs, last IPs, user labels, vendor,
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+ randomized flag, and first/last observation rounded down to the UTC hour.
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+ These reports are private. No packet contents or address history are kept.
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+ - Off-box alerts contain only newcomer counts, rule ID, and severity. They never
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+ contain MACs, IPs, labels, vendors, paths, hostnames, or machine identifiers.
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+ - Recognized provider-token shapes in labels/vendor text and configured alert
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+ credentials are replaced by keyed fingerprints. Never enter passwords or
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+ arbitrary secrets as device labels: this is not a general secret detector.
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+ - The home gateway uses an HMAC-SHA256 fingerprint (`fp:` plus 16 hex digits)
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+ with a private random 32-byte key. No plain hash is used.
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+ - State directory: 0700. Every state/report file: 0600 at creation. Unsafe
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+ existing modes are refused; source permissions are never changed. Reports
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+ are create-only and cannot overwrite an existing file or tool state.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ Install the published package, or install from a source checkout:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ python3 -m pip install porchwatch==0.1.0
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ python3 -m venv .venv
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+ .venv/bin/python -m pip install .
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+ .venv/bin/porchwatch --help
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+ ```
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+
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+ Runtime uses the standard library and `tomli` only on Python 3.10. Building uses
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+ setuptools; tests use pytest. No packages are installed during a scan. On Linux,
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+ iproute2 supplies the passive `ip` commands; nmap is optional and is never
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+ installed or elevated by Porch Watch.
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+
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+ ## Commands
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+
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+ Run `init` only while connected to the home network you intend to monitor. It
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+ trusts that network as home; it cannot determine that a network belongs to you.
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ porchwatch init
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+ porchwatch scan
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+ porchwatch scan --format html --output porchwatch-report.html
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+ porchwatch list --unlabeled --since 7d
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+ porchwatch label 00:11:22:33:44:66 "Living room TV"
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+ porchwatch known 00:11:22:33:44:66
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+ porchwatch report --since 7d
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+ porchwatch report --send
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+ porchwatch forget 00:11:22:33:44:66
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+ porchwatch print-timer --interval 15m
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+ ```
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+
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+ All commands accept `--format text|json|md|html` and `--output FILE`. Output is
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+ also printed to stdout. Labels are escaped in HTML/Markdown output; text output
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+ removes control characters. `--since` filters by last observation, with UTC-hour
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+ precision; it is not a scan-history view. `report --send` retries only pending
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+ notices in that report's selected window.
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+
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+ `init` imports every current device as unlabeled-known and sends no alerts. It
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+ will never overwrite existing initialization. Each subsequently discovered MAC
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+ is alerted once per configured channel. Successful channel receipts persist;
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+ failed channels retry on `scan` or `report --send`. Labeling or marking a device
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+ known suppresses pending notices. Forgetting removes its record and delivery
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+ receipts, allowing a fresh notice if it is observed again. Changing/rotating a
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+ channel's destination does not replay already delivered notices for that channel.
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+ For a first home baseline, keep remote alert channels disabled, run `init` while
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+ present on the intended network, and review `list` before configuring delivery
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+ or a timer. The operator decides which devices are normal; the tool cannot make
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+ that judgment.
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+ Exit status: `0` no newly observed MACs (or not home), `1` newcomer(s), `2`
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+ usage/runtime/alert-delivery error. An alert failure does not drop the newcomer:
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+ the next run retries it. A fresh scan with only already-notified devices exits 0.
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+
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+ ## Home-network guard
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+ Before writing state, a key, a report, or delivery receipts, and before sending
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+ alerts, Porch Watch requires an existing neighbor-cache MAC for the IPv4 default
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+ gateway. A unique default interface and connected gateway subnet must be present.
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+ The gateway fingerprint and subnet must match the initialized home identity.
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+ Missing, ambiguous, or mismatched identity yields `not home`, exit 0, no alert,
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+ and no writes. `init` with insufficient evidence exits 2 and creates nothing.
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+ It never probes a missing gateway to make the guard pass.
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+ The guard also covers `label`, `known`, `forget`, and report file output. Lists
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+ and local reports conservatively return `not home` when identity is unknown.
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+ Printing a timer to stdout needs no network or initialization. An interrupted
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+ initialization or missing key is not silently repaired; preserve the state for
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+ inspection and recovery. Deliberately re-initializing on a different network
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+ requires you to archive the old private state yourself.
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+ Home identity is advisory: cached entries can be stale, MACs can be spoofed, and
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+ a router replacement looks like a different home. Checks are snapshots, repeated
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+ before active discovery, state writes, and alert delivery; no user-space tool can
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+ atomically bind routing changes and an external delivery transaction. A crash
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+ after remote acceptance but before saving a receipt can produce a retry. There
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+ is no claim of exactly-once delivery across crashes or provider timeouts.
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+
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+ ## Passive and active coverage
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+ Passive mode runs only these read operations (actual executable path resolved
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+ locally):
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+ ```text
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+ ip -j -4 route show table all
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+ ip -j neigh show
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+ ip -j -4 rule show
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+ ```
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+ Neighbor states REACHABLE, STALE, DELAY, and PERMANENT are accepted. FAILED,
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+ INCOMPLETE, and other states are ignored. IPv4 and IPv6 cache entries on the
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+ selected interface are deduplicated by MAC; one deterministic last IP is stored,
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+ preferring IPv4. IPv6-only home-gateway initialization is not supported in v0.1.
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+ Without `ip`, `/proc/net/route` and `/proc/net/arp` provide an IPv4-only passive
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+ fallback; proc files are accessed through this process's numeric proc directory
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+ to avoid following `/proc/net` symlinks. No root or nmap is needed for passive use.
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+ Cache visibility is limited: a silent device may never appear, and a disappearing
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+ device is not considered removed. This is not an exhaustive network inventory.
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+
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+ For an explicit local host-discovery run:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ porchwatch scan --active
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+ ```
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+
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+ The only permitted discovery command is `nmap -sn -n <subnet>`. There is no
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+ user-supplied target, additional flag, port scan, DNS, or privilege elevation.
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+ Only an exact, directly connected RFC1918 IPv4 subnet on the default-route
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+ interface, at /22 or smaller, passes. All-table route evidence and standard
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+ IPv4 policy rules are required. Public, CGNAT, link-local, overly broad,
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+ overlapping, other-interface, multipath, or policy-routing ambiguity fails closed.
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+ The proc fallback cannot authorize active mode. If the subnet is safe but nmap
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+ is missing, the command reports `nmap not installed; passive fallback`.
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+
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+ After discovery, Porch Watch rechecks home identity and reads the kernel cache;
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+ it does not ingest nmap's output or hostnames. Unprivileged nmap host discovery
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+ may use TCP connection probes and may find fewer devices than privileged ARP
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+ discovery. `-sn` disables the port-scan phase; it does not mean no TCP packets.
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+ See the [ip neighbor manual](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip-neighbour.8.html)
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+ and [nmap host-discovery reference](https://nmap.org/book/man-host-discovery.html).
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+
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+ Vendor lookup uses only `/usr/share/ieee-data/oui.txt` or
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+ `/usr/share/nmap/nmap-mac-prefixes` if present and under the 5 MB read limit.
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+ Locally administered MACs do not receive an OUI vendor guess. Missing vendor
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+ data is harmless; it is never downloaded.
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+
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+ ## Configuration and state
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+
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+ Configuration defaults to `~/.config/porchwatch/config.toml`; state defaults to
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+ `~/.local/state/porchwatch/`. `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` and `XDG_STATE_HOME` are respected.
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+ An alternate config is selected before the command:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ porchwatch --config ~/.config/porchwatch/config.toml scan
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+ ```
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+
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+ Configuration must be owned by the current user, 0600, and a regular file.
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+ Porch Watch does not create or edit it. [examples/config.toml](examples/config.toml)
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+ documents the accepted keys. An absent config, empty `alert_channels`, or
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+ `["stdout"]` keeps alert handling local. There are no per-MAC remote payloads.
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+
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+ Slack webhooks, ntfy tokens, and SMTP passwords come from environment variable
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+ **names**, never inline config credentials. HTTP endpoints require HTTPS except
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+ on literal loopback/localhost; redirects are rejected. SMTP requires TLS except
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+ on loopback. Delivery has a 5-second timeout per channel. Error messages do not
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+ echo provider errors, URLs, labels, or credential values.
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+
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+ Private state consists of:
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+
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+ | File | Contents |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `devices.json` | Only MAC, first_seen, last_seen, label, vendor, randomized, last_ip per device |
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+ | `home.json` | Gateway MAC HMAC and initialized subnet |
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+ | `fp.key` | Random 32-byte HMAC key |
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+ | `alerts.json` | HMAC identities of known devices and permanent channel delivery receipts |
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+ | `lock` | Empty advisory lock, preventing overlapping local state updates |
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+
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+ The extra receipt state is necessary to keep the specified device schema intact
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+ while supporting known devices, once-per-channel notices, and failure retries.
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+ No report/history file is automatically accumulated.
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+
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+ ## Scheduling and verification
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+
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+ `print-timer` prints a systemd **user** service and timer; it installs or enables
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+ nothing. The printed service expects a `~/.local/bin/porchwatch` executable:
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+ adjust its path to your chosen environment before a separate manual installation.
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+ It treats finding exit code 1 as success and runs passive scans only. Configure
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+ remote channels and their environment separately before scheduling if desired.
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ python -m pytest
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+ ```
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+
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+ Tests use a fake HOME/XDG tree, fixture routes/neighbors, mocked commands and
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+ alert endpoints. They do not initialize a real network, execute nmap, install
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+ timers, send alerts, or touch the real home. Installing the package does not
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+ enable monitoring.
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+ # Example only. Create your private config at 0600 before using it.
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+ # An absent config or empty list means local stdout only.
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+ alert_channels = ["stdout"]
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+
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+ # Opt-in channels: stdout, slack, ntfy, email. Configure before scheduling.
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+ # alert_channels = ["stdout", "slack"]
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+ # alert_slack_webhook_env = "PORCHWATCH_SLACK_WEBHOOK"
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+
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+ # alert_ntfy_topic = "https://ntfy.example.invalid/topic"
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+ # alert_ntfy_token_env = "PORCHWATCH_NTFY_TOKEN"
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+
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+ # alert_smtp_host = "smtp.example.invalid"
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+ # alert_smtp_port = 587
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+ # alert_smtp_security = "starttls" # ssl or starttls; none only on loopback
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+ # alert_smtp_from = "monitor@example.invalid"
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+ # alert_email = "operator@example.invalid"
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+ # alert_smtp_username = "monitor"
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+ # alert_smtp_password_env = "PW_SMTP_PASSWORD"
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+
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+ # Active discovery has no persistent config switch: use scan --active explicitly.
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+ # Off-box payloads are aggregate counts/rule/severity only.
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+ """Porch Watch: private, passive home-LAN newcomer notices."""
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+ __version__ = "0.1.0"
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+ from .cli import main
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+ raise SystemExit(main())