Important
⚠ This is a public archive and the active project has been renamed to NetAlertX and moved: jokob.sk/NetAlertX
- To differentiate from the upstream stale project
- To differentiate from other active forks
- To indicate this is not a Raspberry Pi-specific tool anymore
The latest versions of some operating systems (IOS and Android) incorporate a new & interesting functionality to improve privacy: Random MACs.
This functionality allows you to hide the real MAC of the device and assign a random MAC when we connect to WIFI networks.
This behavior is especially useful when connecting to WIFI's that we do not know, but it is totally useless when connecting to our own WIFI's or known networks.
I recommend disabling this operation when connecting our devices to our own WIFI's, in this way, Pi.Alert will be able to identify the device, and it will not identify it as a new device every so often (every time IOS or Android decides to change the MAC).
Random MACs are recognized by the characters "2", "6", "A", or "E" as the 2nd character in the Mac address. You can disable specific prefixes to be detected as random MAC addresses by specifying the UI_NOT_RANDOM_MAC setting.
- How to Disable MAC Randomization in Android 10
- How do I disable random Wi-Fi MAC address on Android 10
GPL 3.0 Read more here
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