selfhosted-apps-docker/watchyourlan

WatchYourLAN

guide-by-example

Purpose & Overview

Monitor LAN with regular IP scans.

• Github

Simple webgui ip scanner with notification when new unknown MAC address appears.

Backend is written in Go.

Files and directory structure

/home/
└── ~/
    └── docker/
        └── watchyourlan/
            ├── 🗋 .env
            └── 🗋 docker-compose.yml

• .env - a file containing environment variables for docker compose
• docker-compose.yml - a docker compose file, telling docker how to run the container

Compose

Of note is the network_mode being set to host, which means that the container shares the IP with the docker-host and is on the docker-host network, likely the main netowork, not some virtual docker network.

docker-compose.yml

services:

  watchyourlan:
    image: aceberg/watchyourlan
    container_name: watchyourlan
    hostname: watchyourlan
    network_mode: host
    env_file: .env
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./watchyourlan_data:/data     

.env

# GENERAL
TZ=Europe/Bratislava

IFACE="ens33"
GUIIP: "10.0.19.4"
GUIPORT="8840"
THEME="darkly"

To get variables IFACE and GUIIP for the .env file, ssh to docker-host and ip r

Reverse proxy

Caddy v2 is used, details here.

Because of the container running in a host network mode, the IP of the docker-host is used instead of just some container hostname.

Caddyfile

lan.{$MY_DOMAIN} {
  reverse_proxy 10.0.19.4:8840
}

Notifications

WatchYourLAN uses Shoutrrr for notifications.
If using ntfy like me, one just uses generic webhook notation of shoutrrr.

In Config:

• Shoutrrr URL: generic+https://ntfy.example.com/LAN_home

Trouble shooting

Update

Manual image update:

• docker compose pull
  
• docker compose up -d
  
• docker image prune