Living document — what selfsight must do and why. The build approach and status live in PLAN.md; how it works lives in DESIGN.md.
Fully replace NETGEAR Insight for managing WAX-series access points: a self-hosted server that monitors and configures APs over their local API, with no cloud dependency and no subscription.
- The maintainer's own three-AP WAX610 fleet (the reference deployment — selfsight must be good enough to run the maintainer's home network).
- Home-lab and small-office users leaving Insight when their subscription lapses, who want local control of hardware they own.
| In | Out |
|---|---|
| WAX-series APs in standalone mode | Insight-managed mode (vendor locks the local API) |
| Monitoring: up/down, clients, radios, system info | NETGEAR switches, routers, other device classes |
| Config read/write: SSID, security, VLAN, radio | Multi-org / multi-tenant management |
| One-off config writes from the dashboard (the AP stays the only record of its config) | RADIUS, captive portal |
| Optional: declare chosen settings for drift detection and one-click fix | |
| Device config backup and restore, taken whenever the config changes | Mobile app |
| Firmware check and upgrade | Historical charts, rogue-AP scan, alerting |
| Network discovery of APs (may land shortly after v1) | Anything that talks to NETGEAR's cloud |
Out-of-scope items are candidates for later versions, not rejections — except cloud dependencies, which are permanently out.