Pi.Alert is dead...💀 Long live NetAlert X 🚀 (network monitoring) - eviltoast

After thinking for about a year about it I decided to rename the project to 🚀NetAlertX. This will help prevent confusion about which fork someone is using, and differentiate it from the now stale upstream project. With about 1800 or so commits over the stale project, I thought, this project deserved a new name. It will also remove the confusion about only supporting Raspberry Pi’s 😵

On top of the rename, I implemented ✨unlimited icons - just find an SVG you like and use it 😄.

The rename from PiAlert to NetAlertX should be pretty straightforward and existing setups should work fine, no manual migration steps should be necessary. Still, caution is recommended.

Check this https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/issues/633 thread for edge-cases and the guide https://github.com/jokob-sk/NetAlertX/blob/main/docs/MIGRATION.md if you decide to change your docker-compose.

  • jokob@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    Thanks for the constructive feedback.

    1. I’ll keep thinking how to improve the interface selection to simplify the first-time setup. It’s a bit lower on my priority list, but the suggestions are valid.
    2. I’m trying to balance configurability and ease of use and so far the current input is OKAY - it limited the number of wrong setups significantly and it still gives options to include additional arguments. But fair point of having more robust input validation. In general, the initial configuration UX, although very important, is less important than day-to-day tasks so I prioritize accordingly. Still, there is lots of to improve and if this was something that made me money I’d be able to spend more time on the niceties - I’m really focused on the core functionality at this point with approx a 80/20 time investment split.
    3. I didn’t have any feedback on the workflow yet, but I’ll keep this in mind to make it more user-friendly. Once you select the devices they are pre-populated in the grey area so I didn’t get any feedback of it being counter-intuitive.

    Still it’s weird you had issues on FF as I use it as my main driver. 🤔

    Thanks again for the feedback and if you can, please submit an issue for quick UX improvements here-and-there. Again, trying to balance where I spend my time to improve the app 😉