Always measuring
Latency, jitter and loss to your gateway and the internet, DNS lookups, live throughput and a 0–100 health score.
ISAP Labs · Helios is in development
Innovative software
for the things you
rely on.
We are a software development company building practical tools with obsessive attention to how they feel to use. Our first product is Helios: a network monitor that keeps watch over your internet, router, switches, Wi-Fi and devices, and tells you the moment something breaks.
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Source coming soon
- Free for home useSource-available, every line readable
- $8 / yearHelios Mobile, iOS & Android
- Local firstYour data stays on your machine
Feature overview · real app, demo network
See everything Helios does, in under five minutes.
01 · Product
Helios. Your network, readable from across the room.
Turn a spare laptop or mini PC into a full-screen network health display. One status, one glance. Try the live replica below: switch the network state and watch it react.
Helios · Home · 192.168.1.0/24
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All good.
Internet, router and DNS are all answering.
96health
- Latency
- 11 ms
- Packet loss
- 0.2 %
- Download
- 412 Mbps
- Devices online
- 16
Latency, live11 ms
Internet, last 24 hoursnow
Simulate:
Helios · now
Internet is down
Router still answers. 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 do not.
Sample numbers. After two minutes without mouse movement, the real dashboard fades into this Glance view, and drifts a few pixels a minute to protect the screen from burn-in.
Remembers everything
A year of history in a local SQLite database, an ISP outage log with a monthly PDF report for your provider, and a weekly summary.
Gets your attention
When a problem starts, the screen flashes, a sound plays and a pop-up says what went wrong. Short blips are counted, not shouted about.
02 · Tour
The whole network, on one screen.
Straight from the tech demo. Scroll through the views.
Everything on one screen
A health score, latency, jitter and loss, DNS, live WAN throughput and 24 hours of history for every check. Security from your firewall, AdGuard or Pi-hole, Suricata and Zenarmor sits beside it.
Click any device
Its connection, identity, maker and its own 24-hour history. Tell Helios what it is, which switch it hangs off, or ask to be alerted the moment it goes offline.
3D network view
The router at the centre, switches and access points as hubs, devices in orbit. Colour is state, so a problem glows before you read a word.
3D Tiers
Internet, modem, router, switches, devices: your network as a model you can walk around. Drag to turn it, scroll to zoom.
03 · Topology
See how every device reaches the internet.
Helios draws your network as a tree: internet, router, switches, access points, devices. Point at anything and its route lights up, box by box. Overlay traffic, latency or security, trace the way out hop by hop, or step back through the last 24 hours. Hover a device below.Tap a device below.
- Healthy
- Degraded
- Offline
- Tailscale
MapDrag a device onto a switch to wire it up. Undo with Ctrl+Z. Move several at once.
3DThe same network as a slowly turning constellation. Drag to turn, scroll to zoom.
GlanceOne huge status line. Glows red when something is wrong.
SecurityFirewall, intrusion alerts and DNS blocking in one panel, with the devices that stand out.
04 · Resilience
Break something. Watch Helios handle it.
A monitor that fails along with your network is no use. Pick a failure and see what Helios does, step by step.
Glance mode from the tech demo. Drag to compare. When the internet drops, the whole room knows.
05 · Integrations
Works with what you already run.
Every integration is optional and read-only. Credentials stay in a config file on your machine that only you can read. Each one is marked Confirmed (checked against the real product) or Experimental (checked in our test lab, waiting on real hardware).
ExperimentalUniFi & Omada Wi-Fi and switches pfSense OpenWrt MikroTik routers SNMP managed switches Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS NAS health
Read from
- OPNsense & pfSense every device they serve, firewall health, WAN throughput, blocks
- UniFi, Omada, OpenWrt, MikroTik device names, and which access point or switch each device is on
- Managed switches over SNMP: ports, traffic and cabling (LLDP/CDP) drawn on the map
- Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS disks, pools, space and temperature, with alerts
- Suricata intrusion alerts linked to device names
- AdGuard Home & Pi-hole queries, % blocked, protection-off alert
- Zenarmor over syslog or its API, no cloud account
- Tailscale your tailnet as its own branch, key-expiry warnings
Check with
- Ping latency, jitter and packet loss
- TCP port a service accepts connections
- HTTP(S) status code, optional keyword
- TLS certificate validity and days to expiry
- DNS blocking your filter really blocks ads
Send to
- Your phone push alerts through ntfy, plus email, Pushover, Discord and 100+ more via Apprise
- Home Assistant auto-discovered over MQTT
- Prometheus a
/metricsendpoint for Grafana - PDF & CSV a month of outages for your ISP
06 · Pricing
Free to run. $8 a year to take it with you.
Helios itself is free for personal and other noncommercial use, and its source is public to read. Helios Mobile is a small yearly subscription that funds development and lets you check on your network from anywhere.
Helios for Linux desktops & Docker
In development$0free for personal, noncommercial use
- Full-screen dashboard, Glance, Map and 3D views
- Every check, alert and integration
- Full-screen alerts with sound and pop-ups
- A year of local history, ISP outage CSV and monthly PDF
- Made for a dedicated screen: any size from 1366×768 to 4K, kiosk or desktop-background mode, never sleeps, locks or blanks
- Or run it headless in Docker on a NAS, home server or Raspberry Pi
- Source-available: read every line (PolyForm Strict). Business use by separate license
Helios Mobile for iOS & Android
$8per year · about 67¢ a month
- Paid companion app for remote monitoring and access
- Status, history and alerts on the go
- Rich push alerts with one-tap snooze
- Approve, rename or flag new devices on the go
- Glance mode in your pocket
- Pairs with a one-time code and talks only to your own Helios, over Tailscale
- Supports ongoing development
07 · Install
Three commands. Two services. Done.
In developmentInstall opens with the public release.
On a desktop, Helios installs as a Debian package and starts two services that restart themselves if they stop: one for checks and alerts, one for the screen. A setup wizard walks you through the rest. No screen? The Docker image runs the checks, alerts, history and phone dashboard on amd64, arm64 and armv7. Here is a preview.
- Debian 13 with KDE Plasma 6. Other recent distros should work.
- Everything from Debian packages. No pip, no Flatpak.
- A spare laptop or mini PC and a screen, or any Docker host.
08 · Roadmap
Where Helios is headed, milestone by milestone.
- Health monitoringLatency, loss, DNS, throughput, health score, history.Done
- Topology mapTree, 3D and 3D Tiers views with drag-to-wire, traffic overlays, time travel.Done
- Alerts & reportsScreen flash, sound and pop-ups, new-device inventory, monthly outage PDF.Done
- Security & integrationsUnified security panel, OPNsense health and firewall log, Pi-hole, Tailscale API.Done
- Dedicated screenBackground mode, kiosk, any screen size, night mode, light theme.Done
- Wider hardwareUniFi, Omada, pfSense, OpenWrt, MikroTik, SNMP switches and NAS health, built and in testing.Testing
- 1.0 releaseLinux, Raspberry Pi and Docker (image built), then Windows.Next
- Helios MobileiOS & Android, $8/year. Its API, pairing and account server are underway.After 1.0
Bring some light to your network.
Helios is in development and isn’t public yet. Email us and we’ll tell you the moment it’s released.