How would this work for a consumer network which doesn't have a fixed public IP?

achillean · on Nov 16, 2018

In that case you're probably better off w/ a cronjob that checks Shodan for information on your IP once a day. Doing direct IP lookups is free so you wouldn't need to pay. You won't get the immediate, real-time feedback but it's fairly straight-forward to do a daily IP lookup.

You could also change/ update your private firehose every day though that would require a bit more technical skill. You could basically do:

    MYIP=`shodan myip`
    shodan alert create home-network $MYIP
    shodan stream --alerts=all

That would create an alert for your current IP and then subscribe to any events.