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Read-only home LAN / IoT watch with approval gates

Non-programmers still need home-network eyes. Changing router DNS without a gate is scary.

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What hurt

Tod Eberle (@Tod_Eberle_AA), a retired engineer not a programmer, used Grok Bot to build a Home Network Watch Bot: read-only inventory, outbound risk sampling, vendor cloud watchlist, optional Pi-hole audit playbook, and routines that stay quiet when normal. Author-quoted description + template — never invent settings changes. Not affiliated with xAI.

What to install or create

Always-on LAN PC. ISP app for device list. Named IoT vendors. Approval before any DNS/router change.

Bots

  • Home Network Watch

    Read-only health + risk sample + vendor watchlist. Asks before any change.

Plugins

  • Browser

    Required

Files

  • Author template: https://x.ai/bot/N2MLY_ZTGpWNT-uWofgkV

  • Expected vs Flag domain watchlist for your IoT brands.

Routines

  • Hourly ISP status. Hourly. Quiet if normal; alert on danger.

  • Weekday LAN heartbeat. Weekdays. LAN-monitor heartbeat / danger alerts.

  • Weekly device-list refresh. Weekly. Nudge to refresh device list from ISP app.

Shareable bot

Install click if you want it. The published prompt is still below for anyone who would rather paste.

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The prompt

This is a tip, not a pasteable system prompt. The author did not publish one. Follow the first-run steps.

First run

  1. 1Read https://x.com/Tod_Eberle_AA/status/2102512283914055754 and open the linked template.
  2. 2Connect an always-on PC on your LAN. Name the IoT brands to watch.
  3. 3Install as read-only first. Confirm the bot will not change router/IoT/DNS without your yes.
  4. 4Turn on hourly/weekday/weekly routines only after a quiet dry run.
  5. 5Treat Pi-hole as an optional time-boxed audit, not permanent DNS.

Approval fence

Never change router, IoT, or DNS without explicit yes. Prefer alerts over auto-remediation.

What to tweak

Steal read-only first + named watchlist + approval gates. Optional Pi-hole is time-boxed, not forever DNS.

Source

Tod Eberle @Tod_Eberle_AA · Original post

Not affiliated with xAI. We did not write this prompt. Third-party template terms still apply.

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