23.04.01 - Import all the things! ⬇

...alright not ALL the things, but a lot... 😉

Before diving into what's new I'd like to thank @seth-space & @killtux for the donations (which happened already a while ago but did you know GitHub keeps the first donation for up to 3 months?). Thanks guys for the coffee(s):

• that's actually my foot and hand :)

It feels good to help you and to get a coffee out of it from time to time.

Quick stats: changed 34 files with 2,464 lines of new code

🆕 New features

• Wake-on-Lan on supported devices inspired by @leiweibau: jokob-sk/Pi.Alert@73c779c
• Option to disable plugins with the ENABLE_PLUGINS setting (🐛 bug found - see below)
• I've added a plugin icon next to Settings generated with plugins (🔌)
• Plugins now allow inserting new events into existing database tables
  • Added relevant documentation how to insert new objects into native PiAlert database tables
• New plugin(s):
  • Map multiple dhcp.leases files via the DHCP leases (DHCPLSS) plugin
  • Import devices from a UniFi controller via the UNIFI import (UNFIMP) plugin
  • Rogue DHCP servers detection Plugin via NMAP

🚑 Fixes and Improvements

• Removed trailing dot in host/device names after Pholus scans
• Drastically reduced file-write operations to update API endpoints by comparing the current state to previous DB objects #193
• Slight CSS changes to improve the mobile and widescreen experience
• Fixed repeated notifications on already discovered and reported on ports #199
• Thanks to @pbek: fix: remove trailing slash for REPORT_DASHBOARD_URL in the sample pialert.conf file

🐛 Known issues

• The plugins tabs don't have descriptions if the language is not explicitly set to en_us (fixed in this commit)
• Setting ENABLE_PLUGINS to False crashes the container when API endpoints are updated (fixed in this commit )

🖼 Screenshots

What's Changed

• fix: remove trailing slash for REPORT_DASHBOARD_URL by @pbek in https://github.com/jokob-sk/Pi.Alert/pull/198

New Contributors

• @pbek made their first contribution in https://github.com/jokob-sk/Pi.Alert/pull/198

Full Changelog: jokob-sk/Pi.Alert@v23.03.11...v23.04.01

23.03.11 - Support for custom plugins 🌟

😅 This was a pretty laborsome release so I hope you like it.

consider donating if you like it a lot😉
Stats: changed 43 files with 3,247 lines of new code

🌟Highlight: Create custom plugins with automatically generated settings and UI

• Check the instructions carefully if you are up for a challenge (mostly only JSON knowledge required)
• Submit a PR with your custom plugin if you'd like to share it with other users too!
• Check screenshots at the bottom of how JSON is used to render the UI of the Plugins section

🆕 New features

• (Experimental) Simple plugin system
• (Experimental) Sample Web monitoring plugin using the above plugin system (based on leiweibau's suggestion )
• (Experimental) Sample Services plugin to show how to retrieve arbitrary SQL data and show it in the UI
• New LOG_LEVEL setting
• New custom LIST setting type

🚑 Fixes and Improvements

• CSV import made more robust and added support for importing the dev_Icon column #175
• DB lock when updating icons gives a clearer error message #177
• Dots were removed from host names #165
• A Git .ignore file caused a missing /api folder throwing errors on notification events #163
• Logout fix #181

⚠ Possibly breaking changes

• ENABLE_API - setting removed - API endpoints are now always generated
• Removed the pialert_pholus.log file as not needed anymore to remove unnecessary bloat
• API_RUN - setting removed - API endpoints are now always updated every 5s
• API_RUN_SCHD - setting removed - as above
• API_RUN_INTERVAL - setting removed - as above
• PRINT_LOG - setting removed - replaced by LOG_LEVEL

🐛 Known issues

• Check this pinned issue for known bugs and upcoming features.

🖼 Screenshots

Full Changelog: jokob-sk/Pi.Alert@v23.02.02...v23.03.11

23.02.02

🆕 New features

• Network page configuration guide
• "Location", "Vendor", Number of "Connected devices" as optional columns
• The Pholus script hast timeouts inside .join(N) statements to prevent hanging
• New simple API endpoints
• Notification on Port changes based on the scheduled NMAP scan - Great for security monitoring!
• Apprise setting for payload type (e.g. used for Telegram to set to text)
• You can start an ad-hoc ARP-SCAN via settings
• Language settings moved into the config by mariorodriguezlopez, thanks!

🚑 Fixes and Improvements

• Server didn't return correct values when accessing a device details page when a filter (such as New devices) was applied
• Order and visible columns preserved after restart of container if settings present in the cookie
• Network page tree font scaling improvements
• Rework of notification templates (emails look slightly different) to make the code maintainable in the future

⚠ Breaking changes

• The webhook JSON structure was changed into a more readable and usable format

🐛 Known issues

• If API enabled you will be getting an FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/pi/pialert/front/api/ error. Workaround and cause can be found in this thread.

🖼 Screenshots

23.01.22-HF02

🆕 New features

• A small Gmail as SMTP guide

🚑 Improvements

• Network tree refreshes on Assign/Unassign device

🐛 Bugfixes

• Fix Network tree scaling,
• Device Details link,
• Missing language string,
• Incorrectly mapped columns,
• Default device values
• Last IP ordering fix

23.01.22

🆕 New features

• You can now configure visible columns and their order in the Maintenance page
• Icons can now be specified for every device
• Mass copy&paste of an icon across the same type of device
• Network page improvements:
  ** Visualize network tree
  ** Icon support
  ** Assign / Unassign device buttons

🚑 Improvements

• Added a new network-type device - Firewall
• In device details you now see the Network device name instead of it's MAC
• Moved the dark mode setting into settings / DB - no need to map the file in your file system anymore
• I've added a TON of reporting in the send email method (Enable by checking PRINT_LOG) to debug SMTP (email sending) connection issues
• A new SMTP_FORCE_SSL setting

⚠ Known issues

Device table not loaded. Workaround, store a new column order by saving this setting:

🖼 Screenshots

23.01.22-HF01

🐛 Hot-fix

• Device table was not loaded. This should be fixed in this release.

23.01.14

🆕 New features

• Prompt before leaving unsaved settings
• New release check
• Ability to add notes to NMAP detected ports
• Ability to test notification settings
• Option to modify DIG parameters for Internet IP discovery
• Accordion settings sections for better UX
• A little guide on setting up n8n via webhooks

🚑 Improvements

• Fix SMTP_SKIP_TLS and SMTP_SKIP_LOGIN not being used
• Moving enable ARP scan from maintenance to settings
• Permission fix on startup time hopefully preventing issues for new installs
• Code refactoring for easier maintenance for: Device Details page changes
• Moving JavaScript cache from cookies to session to reduce request headers size

🖼 Screenshots

23.01.02

New features 🆕

• De-duplication of Pholus scan results
• Better Settings save page exception handling
• Schedule Nmap scans

Improvements 🚑

• Pholus scans are terminated if they hang
• Removed unnecessary Open/Close DB calls eliminating most AJAX errors