Letting the AI see devices on your home network
You do not add devices one by one. Ask in the AI chat; the assistant looks at the home network of the computer it runs on and keeps the list for you.
What you can say
- Who is there: "who is online?", "what is connected to the network?", "is the TV on?".
- Look again: "find devices" starts a fresh scan (about ten seconds); a list younger than two minutes is reused.
- Names and kinds: "call .42 the bathroom floor heater", "this is a vacuum", "forget the camera" (with a card).
- Waking a PC: "wake the second computer".
- New devices: "tell me about new devices" switches notifications on, "stop telling me about new devices" switches them off, "what is new on the network?" lists the new ones.
- On a schedule: "wake the second PC on weekdays at 8" (with a card).
How access is granted
The first time you ask, the chat shows Access needed. Press Allow and your request carries on by itself. The same single checkbox, AI access in the AI settings, takes it away again. Nothing is scanned before you ask, except the notifications about new devices if you turned them on.
The list keeps itself
Every device a scan sees goes into the list automatically, named by its kind and maker ("Vacuum (Roborock)"). What a device calls itself is shown in quotes as a hint and never becomes its name unless you say so. Rename it in the chat or in the Devices tab.
"Not responding" does not mean "switched off": phones and TVs that sleep often ignore pings.
Waking a PC
Waking runs at once when you ask. The PC itself must be set up for it, see Wake-on-LAN setup.
New devices
The first check ever is the baseline: whatever is on the network then counts as known. After that, while the AI service runs, the computer looks every 15 minutes and shows a notification on the PC and posts it in the "Home network" chat, so you see it from your phone and the website too. Switch it on or off in the chat. Nothing is checked while the AI service is not running.
The Devices tab is optional
You never have to open it. It is a view of the same list: devices with names, kinds and last seen, Wake for PCs, New on the network with Dismiss, a Network log, and Refresh, which scans again. Add by hand is there for a device on another subnet. A line there shows whether notifications about new devices are on; change it in the chat.
What it never does
- It does not scan ports and does not look for vulnerabilities.
- It sends nothing to devices that are not in its own list, and only inside your home network.
- It cannot control a router or a TV yet: only find them, check them and, for PCs, wake them.
- The computer keeps a local log of what it does on the network (Network log).
When it cannot see names
On a public network Windows Firewall may block Python, and then names are missing. The list still works: devices show up by address.
Related: Wake-on-LAN setup, Letting the AI control the PC.
Updated 2026-11-07