If you want to discover or import devices into the application enable some of the 🔍 dev scanner plugins. The next step is to pick a notification plugin, or 💬 publisher plugin, to get notified about network changes. If you don't see a publisher you'd like to use, look at the 📚_publisher_apprise plugin which is a proxy for over 80 notification services.

Enabling plugins

Plugins can be enabled via Settings, and can be disabled as needed.

Research which plugin you'd like to use below and then load the required plugins in Settings via the LOADED_PLUGINS setting.
Save the changes and review the Settings of the newly loaded plugins.
Change the <prefix>_RUN Setting to the recommended or custom value as per the documentation of the given setting
- If using schedule on a 🔍 dev scanner plugin, make sure the schedules are the same across all 🔍 dev scanner plugins

Disabling, Unloading and Ignoring plugins

Change the <prefix>_RUN Setting to disabled if you want to disable the plugin, but keep the settings
If you want to speed up the application, you can unload the plugin by unselecting it in the LOADED_PLUGINS setting.
- Careful, once you save the Settings Unloaded plugin settings will be lost (old app.conf files are kept in the /config folder)
You can completely ignore plugins by placing a ignore_plugin file into the plugin directory. Ignored plugins won't show up in the LOADED_PLUGINS setting.

Available Plugins

Device-detecting plugins insert values into the CurrentScan database table. The plugins that are not required are safe to ignore, however, it makes sense to have a least some device-detecting plugins enabled, such as ARPSCAN or NMAPDEV.

ID	Type	Description	Required	Data source	Detailed docs
`APPRISE`	💬 publisher	Apprise publisher plugin		Script	📚_publisher_apprise
`ARPSCAN`	🔍 dev scanner	ARP scan plugin		Script	📚arp_scan
`CSVBCKP`	⚙ system	CSV backup plugin		Script	📚csv_backup
`DBCLNP`	⚙ system	Database cleanup plugin	Yes*	Script	📚db_cleanup
`DDNS`	⚙ system	DDNS update plugin		Script	📚ddns_update
`DHCPLSS`	🔍 dev scanner	DHCP leases plugin		Script	📚dhcp_leases
`DHCPSRVS`	♻ other	DHCP servers plugin		Script	📚dhcp_servers
`INTRNT`	🔍 dev scanner	Internet IP scanner		Script	📚internet_ip
`INTRSPD`	♻ other	Internet speed test plugin		Script	📚internet_speedtest
`MAINT`	⚙ system	Maintenance plugin		Script	📚maintenance
`MQTT`	💬 publisher	MQTT publisher plugin		Script	📚_publisher_mqtt
`NEWDEV`	⚙ system	New device template	Yes	Template	📚newdev_template
`NMAP`	♻ other	Nmap scan plugin		Script	📚nmap_scan
`NMAPDEV`	🔍 dev scanner	Nmap device scan plugin		Script	📚nmap_dev_scan
`NSLOOKUP`	♻ other	NSLookup scan plugin		Script	📚nslookup_scan
`NTFPRCS`	⚙ system	Notification processing	Yes	Template	📚notification_processing
`NTFY`	💬 publisher	NTFY publisher plugin		Script	📚_publisher_ntfy
`PHOLUS`	♻ other	Pholus scan plugin		Script	📚pholus_scan
`PIHOLE`	🔍 dev scanner	Pi-hole scan plugin		SQLite DB	📚pihole_scan
`PUSHSAFER`	💬 publisher	Pushsafer publisher plugin		Script	📚_publisher_pushsafer
`PUSHOVER`	💬 publisher	Pushover publisher plugin		Script	📚_publisher_pushover
`SETPWD`	⚙ system	Set password template	Yes	Template	📚set_password
`SMTP`	💬 publisher	Email publisher plugin		Script	📚_publisher_email
`SNMPDSC`	🔍 dev scanner	SNMP discovery plugin		Script	📚snmp_discovery
`UNDIS`	♻ other	Undiscoverables scan plugin		Script	📚undiscoverables
`UNFIMP`	🔍 dev scanner	UniFi import plugin		Script	📚unifi_import
`VNDRPDT`	⚙ system	Vendor update plugin		Script	📚vendor_update
`WEBHOOK`	💬 publisher	Webhook publisher plugin		Script	📚_publisher_webhook
`WEBMON`	♻ other	Website monitor plugin		Script	📚website_monitor

* The database cleanup plugin (DBCLNP) is not required but the app will become unusable after a while if not executed.

** The Undiscoverables plugin (UNDIS) inserts only user-specified dummy devices.

It's recommended to use the same schedule interval for all plugins responsible for discovering new devices.

Developing custom plugins

If you want to develop a custom plugin, please read this Plugin development guide.