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Surveillance Hound

PASSIVE OBSERVATION · A LITTLE PERSONALITY

Good dog. Sharp nose.

An offline ESP32 companion that notices nearby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth clues, keeps local logs, and turns each discovery into a snack for your hound.

Get started Try the Hound Install firmware

Six original pixel hounds: Corgi, Beagle, Shiba, Husky, Labrador and Dalmatian

Pick your trail

  • Use your Hound

    Controls, outfits, quiet alerts and the bouncing dog screen saver.

    Open the user guide

  • Understand a scent

    82 rules across 21 categories, with the evidence and limits explained.

    Read detection coverage

  • Follow and watch

    Explore signal reception or watch for a tag that remains nearby.

    Learn about Travel Watch

  • Build and contribute

    Build the firmware, run the host tests, or improve the documentation.

    Start contributing

What it does

Six dogs, local discoveries, earned outfits and a passive receiver for selected 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi management frames and legacy BLE advertisements. The application does not associate, probe, advertise, inject frames or upload observations. See all features.

Alpha release · 0.1.0-alpha.2

Adds passive signatures, saved speaker volume and optional vibration alerts. See release notes. Hardware checks and host regression tests are recorded. The maintainer reports cold-boot, display/touch and missing/full/interrupted SD checks tested. Controlled RF accuracy, power measurements and formal release acceptance remain open. See current status and release gates.

A match describes radio evidence, not intent or proof of surveillance. Some equipment emits nothing Hound can recognize; no matching signals is not an all-clear.