Princeton IoT Inspector
IoT Inspector is a standalone desktop app that lets you analyze your home IoT devices. It allows you to determine
- who your IoT devices are communicating with
- when the communication happens
- how many bytes are sent and received over time
These features will help you identify potential problems on your home network, including
- security problems (e.g., your camera sending out lots of traffic even when you are not using it)
- privacy problems (e.g., your smart TV contacting advertising or tracking companies as you watch TV)
- performance problems (e.g., identifying who is using up the most bandwidth in your home network)
For details, see https://iotinspector.org.
Running IoT Inspector
Binaries
You can download the latest pre-compiled binaries from https://iotinspector.org.
From source code
If you are uncomfortable executing our pre-compiled binaries (as some anti-virus products may flag IoT Inspector as malware), you can directly run IoT Inspector from the source code. After all, IoT Inspector is written in pure Python 3.
Linux and macOS
Make sure you have Python 3. Do the following from the command line:
$ git clone https://github.com/noise-lab/iot-inspector-client.git
$ cd iot-inspector-client/src
$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
$ sudo python start_inspector.py
Windows 10 PowerShell or WSL
Make sure to first install Npcap.
If you use the command line or PowerShell, make sure to open it using the Admin mode.
> git clone https://github.com/noise-lab/iot-inspector-client.git
> cd iot-inspector-client\src
> pip install -r requirements-windows.txt
> python start_inspector.py
If you're on WSL, do the following:
$ git clone https://github.com/noise-lab/iot-inspector-client.git
$ cd iot-inspector-client/src
$ pip install -r requirements-windows.txt
$ sudo python start_inspector.py