Monitor Your Network in Home Assistant With This AMAZING Add-on

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

If an unknown device suddenly connected to your Smart Home network, would you know?

Take control of your Smart Home network with this powerful Home Assistant add-on that lets you monitor every device connected to your network. In this full guide, I’ll show you what the add-on does, how to install it, and how to use it for smarter presence detection, better security, and real-time alerts inside Home Assistant.

Whether you want to know when a new device joins your network, track who’s at home based on Wi-Fi presence, or get notified when something unexpected appears, this is one of the best network monitoring tools you can add to Home Assistant.

Add the following URL to your Home Assistant Add-on repositories so that you can install NetAlertX https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons

If you need to install MQTT then I have just done a video on exactly how to install it https://youtu.be/lHdtCQNudv4

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