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Private network watcher

LUMINA SENTINEL

See every device on the Wi-Fi — without an account. Sentinel names what is connected, learns what is normal, and tells you what changed. A private alternative to Fing that runs entirely on your machine. No cloud, no telemetry, nothing to sign up for.

One-time · Mac · Early access
How it works

Watch. Learn. Tell you what changed.

Most network scanners give you a wall of IP addresses and leave you to figure out what matters. Sentinel runs a small local pipeline that turns that raw scan into a plain answer: this is new, this left, this is worth a look.

01 · SENSE
Sense
Scans the network and builds a picture of what is connected right now
02 · ID
Name it
On-device mDNS resolves devices to real names — not just numbers
03 · PREDICT
Predict
Compares against what is normal for this network and flags the difference
04 · DECIDE
Decide
Ranks responses by budget — what is worth your attention, in order
05 · LEARN
Learn
Debounces the noise and remembers what you mute, so it gets quieter over time
● SENTINEL · watch
scanning local network…
✓ 14 devices seen · 12 known
✓ MacBook-Air, eero, HP-printer, 2× iPhone …
⚠ new device: android-9f2c (first seen 14:02)
⚠ left: chromecast-living-room (last seen 11:40)
─────────────────────────────
decide → 1 item worth a look · muted 6 routine
What it does

A watcher that actually decides

Names, not numbers

On-device mDNS resolution turns a list of IP addresses into devices you recognise — your laptop, the printer, the smart speaker — so you can tell a guest's phone from something that shouldn't be there.

Knows what changed

Sentinel learns what is normal for a network, then surfaces the difference — a device that just joined, one that disappeared — instead of making you re-read the whole list every time.

Ranked responses

Every alert is scored and ranked by budget, so you see the one thing worth your attention first — not a flat feed of equally-loud notifications.

Gets quieter

It debounces repeat events and remembers what you mute. The longer you run it, the less it nags — the routine stuff fades and the unusual stuff stands out.

HARDEN your Mac

One command locks down the machine you own — and hands you a short phone checklist for the networks you only visit. Built for the reality that you are usually a guest on someone else's Wi-Fi.

Glass dashboard

A local web dashboard shows the live picture of the network in the Lumina glass style. It runs on your machine — open a browser tab, no server in the middle.

Privacy

It watches the network. Nothing watches you.

Fing wants an account and sends what it sees to a cloud service. Sentinel does neither. The scan, the device history, and everything it learns stay on your machine. Unplug the internet and it still tells you what is on the local Wi-Fi — because it never needed the cloud to begin with.

All scanning and analysis runs on-device
Device history stored locally only
No account, no telemetry, no analytics
Works the same with the internet unplugged
Cloud calls ever: 0

Honest scope: today Sentinel is observe-and-harden. It tells you what is happening and locks down your own machine — it does not yet take enforcement action on networks you don't control, because on most Wi-Fi you are a guest, not the admin. Active enforcement is on the roadmap.
Requirements

What you need

  • macOS 13 Ventura or newer (Apple Silicon + Intel)
  • On the same Wi-Fi or LAN as the devices you want to see
  • No account, no API key, no internet connection required to run
  • First launch on Mac: right-click → Open (unsigned-app warning is normal for indie software)
Built by Zac Page in Sydney · Lumina Sentinel
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