HomeLab Monitor MCP Server

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HomeLab Monitor runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 16 Sep 2026.

Self-hosted homelab dashboard with a built-in read-only MCP server (hosts, Docker, GPU, services).

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Installs / week

not published

202

Stars

11 open issues

16 Sep 2026

Last commit

from GitHub

MIT

License

Python

What the code does

We read the source, 19 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Claims read-only, but the code runs commands launch.py:23, probe.py:317

    return subprocess.Popen([PY, "/app/app.py"])

Reads secrets and sends them out app.py:121

SSH_KEY         = os.path.join(SSH_DIR, "id_ed25519")

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Checks whether it runs in a sandbox probe.py:1079

    if os.path.exists("/.dockerenv"):

Runs an external command launch.py:23, probe.py:317

    return subprocess.Popen([PY, "/app/app.py"])

Touches key and credential files app.py:121

SSH_KEY         = os.path.join(SSH_DIR, "id_ed25519")

Asks for container control access docker-compose.readonly.yml:16, docker-compose.yml:74, deploy/docker-compose.mc.yml:48 и ещё 1

      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro

Page executes code built at runtime static/public.html:151

function applyTheme(){ document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-theme',THEME); $('themebtn').innerHTML=THEME==='dark'?SUN:MOON; }

Dumps the whole environment probe.py:997

        env = dict(os.environ, LC_ALL="C", LANG="C")

Sends data to a third-party sink app.py:5111

    url = f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{token}/sendMessage"

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch HomeLab Monitor and you get told the day something new turns up.

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HomeLab Monitor — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for HomeLab Monitor?

HomeLab Monitor runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone.

Is HomeLab Monitor open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python, 202 stars on GitHub and 11 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.