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Scrutiny (Full Access)

alexbelgium/hassio-addons v1.74.1

Security 1/8 Opens inside Home Assistant (Ingress) very lively – several changes a month

Scrutiny (Full Access) monitors S.M.A.R.T data from hard drives and SSDs to detect potential failures. Users use it to track drive health and receive early warnings about possible drive issues.

Facts about this add-on

Security rating
1 / 8
Ingress
yes
Maintenance
very lively – several changes a month (100 changes/year)
Version
v1.74.1
Last change
September 11, 2026
Project
github.com
Architectures
aarch64, amd64

How this rating comes about

Home Assistant calculates the rating itself: every add-on starts at 5, and each right it asks for or gives up moves the number. The same calculation runs here, on the configuration the add-on ships.

Starting value of every add-on 5
Ships its own AppArmor profile +1
Reached through Ingress, so no port of its own +2
Asks for far reaching rights (DAC_READ_SEARCH, SYS_ADMIN, SYS_RAWIO) -1
Has full hardware access – that alone sets the rating to 1
Result 1 / 8

A high number does not mean the add-on is good, and a low one does not mean it is dangerous – a backup add-on has to reach far into the system to do its job. The number says how much it is allowed to do, and the list above says what exactly.

What the add-on is allowed to do

  • Full hardware access
  • Extended rights: SYS_ADMIN, SYS_RAWIO, DAC_READ_SEARCH

Installation

  1. In Home Assistant open Settings → Add-ons → Add-on Store, and add the repository https://github.com/alexbelgium/hassio-addons through the three-dot menu.
  2. Reload the store and open Scrutiny (Full Access).
  3. Install the add-on and wait for the first start.
  4. Switch on "Show in sidebar" – the interface then opens directly inside Home Assistant.
  5. Check the rights the add-on asks for before you start it – they are listed above.

Add repository to my Home Assistant Open the add-on directly

Both links go through my.home-assistant.io and open the store of your own instance – no address of ours is involved.

The same software from other repositories

Repository Ingress Security Changes/year
alexbelgium/hassio-addons – shown here yes 1 100
alexbelgium/hassio-addons – recommended yes 7 100

Picked by: interface inside Home Assistant first, then the security rating, then how actively the add-on is maintained.

Source of this entry: the add-on configuration on GitHub

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