iotaudit

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Is your smart pet feeder, camera or plug safe? iotaudit watches what your own IoT devices do on the network and gives each one an A–F grade with a one-page HTML report. Everything runs locally: no account, no telemetry, no cloud.

It answers the questions you actually have about a cheap smart device:

• Who does it talk to? Domains (DNS + TLS SNI + HTTP Host), IPs, country, organisation.
• Is it encrypted? Plaintext HTTP, unencrypted TCP, old TLS, or "custom" high-entropy protocols.
• What ports are open? Optional nmap scan with risk notes (telnet, RTSP, UPnP, ADB, …).
• Does it phone home while idle? Idle-upload check and a traffic timeline with bursts.
• Where did the video go? LAN peer (phone P2P) vs cloud vs STUN/TURN — and an honest note when a stream was set up but never actually passed through your computer.

Status: 0.1.0. Hotspot + ARP capture, pcap analysis, IPv6/NDP, grading, HTML report and the MCP server work. CVE lookup and UPnP checks are on the roadmap.

Sample report

A report for a Tuya-associated pet feeder (anonymized). It talks to US clouds over TLS/MQTT, keeps telnet open, uses hardcoded 8.8.8.8, sets up a P2P video session that was not observed on this run, and shows an odd special-use "LAN peer" that is not a real device:

Open docs/sample-report.html in a browser for the full version.

Install

pipx install iotaudit
# or with the MCP server extra:
pip install "iotaudit[mcp]"
# latest from source:
pipx install "git+https://github.com/emirmrkaljevic/iotaudit"

Capturing needs root (sudo). The optional port scan needs nmap.

Quickstart

macOS

brew install nmap
pipx install iotaudit

# Just run it: pick your device from the list, then leave it alone (or use its app).
sudo "$(which iotaudit)" capture --mode arp --i-own-this-network

iotaudit scans your LAN, lists devices (IP, MAC, vendor; Tuya/Espressif flagged as likely IoT), and lets you pick one. It then ARP-spoofs only that device so its traffic flows through your Mac, captures for up to an hour (Ctrl+C stops early and still writes the report), and restores the ARP tables and IP-forwarding on exit. With a device picked, --watch-lan (phone P2P) and the IPv6/NDP filter are on by default.

Linux

sudo apt install nmap
pipx install iotaudit

# Same ARP flow as macOS:
sudo "$(which iotaudit)" capture --mode arp --i-own-this-network

# Or hotspot mode: your laptop becomes an AP; re-pair the device to it (needs NetworkManager).
sudo iotaudit capture --mode hotspot --iface wlan0 --ssid iotaudit --password 'choose-a-pass' \
     --device 10.42.0.50 --scan --out feeder.html

Analyse an existing capture

# from Wireshark, your router, or OpenWrt `tcpdump -w`
iotaudit analyze capture.pcap --device 192.168.1.50 --json results.json --out report.html

The report lands at ./iotaudit-report.html with a matching .json next to it.

IPv6, P2P video, and "not observed"

Live video from a camera or feeder often does not go to the cloud — it goes directly to your phone over the local Wi-Fi (P2P), after a short STUN/TURN handshake. iotaudit tries hard to see that stream (--watch-lan spoofs device↔phone, and the capture filter now includes IPv6 and NDP), but two Wi-Fi clients can talk without their traffic ever passing through your computer — because of Access-Point client isolation, a phone ignoring the spoof, or the stream riding IPv6 link-local (fe80::). When that happens the report says so honestly:

Live video set up but not observed here — the session was negotiated (STUN) but no sustained stream was captured; it most likely went straight to your phone. Not observed ≠ not happening.

For ground truth, capture at the router instead. --ipv6-ndp (experimental) also NDP-spoofs IPv6 link-local pairs.

MCP server

iotaudit-mcp        # exposes audit tools to a local assistant ("audit my pet feeder")

Consent & scope

iotaudit only audits your own network. It refuses non-private targets and requires --i-own-this-network (or an interactive I OWN THIS NETWORK confirmation). ARP/NDP spoofing on a network you do not own may be illegal.

Findings are indicators based on observed traffic, not proof of wrongdoing by any vendor. IP geolocation by DB-IP. MIT licensed.