Show HN: ESP-Watchtower – $3 ESP8266 Home Network Sentinel and Canary Honeypot

Category: security

Tags: esp8266, honeypot, network-monitoring, iot, discord, wake-on-lan

Score: 5.5/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

ESP-Watchtower turns a cheap ESP8266 into a home network sentinel with honeypot decoys (Telnet, HTTP, RTSP), internet health monitoring, power outage alerts, Wake-on-LAN, and Discord notifications. It stands out for combining security canaries and network reliability monitoring on a sub-$4 microcontroller with a polished web dashboard and persistent logging.

Target audience: homelab enthusiasts, DIY security hobbyists, IoT developers

Repository: https://github.com/prasadabhishek/esp-watchtower · C++ · MIT · 6 stars

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