iotaudit
See who your smart home devices talk to, graded A to F
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Free, open source (MIT) tool to audit your own smart home devices. Run sudo iotaudit auto: it finds the devices on your network and shows who each one talks to, whether traffic is encrypted, open ports, UPnP port forwards and idle uploads, then grades each device A to F in a local HTML or PDF report. No account, no telemetry, everything stays local.
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: application and system security scanners · 260 launches, 34 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Observability & eval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Privacy
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial The CLI can be built with standard tools like nmap, UPnP and packet capture, and the report is simple. However, meaningful A–F grades need security judgment about encryption, cloud endpoints, and device behavior, which requires domain expertise to get right.
What it would actually take: Use Python with packet capture (scapy or tshark), port scanning, UPnP discovery, and DNS/TLS inspection, then generate an HTML/PDF report. The hard parts are device identification across vendors, interpreting traffic as safe or risky, and building a reliable scoring rubric. That needs IoT security expertise and a tested database of device fingerprints and behaviors.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 47 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 48 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
- SmartHomeXa · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- IoT Devices · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Dotmeter · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- wifi-association-presence · github · 2026-10-07 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Ping Bee · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- gethome · ph · 2026-10-24 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Census · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- netorbit · github · 2026-10-30 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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