Release notes & project journal.

PiNT Live v0.4 · Multi-Vendor Polling

1. 01
   Per-switch vendor

   Every switch row in the sidebar gets a ⚙ cog button. Click it to pick the vendor (Ruckus / Cisco IOS / HP-Aruba) and — if shared credentials are turned off — set per-switch username and password overrides. The status line during polling now shows the vendor in flight: Connecting to 192.168.1.1 (Ruckus)…

2. 02
   Bulk configuration modal

   A new Configure all switches… button opens a modal with shared credentials at the top and a per-switch table of IP / Vendor / Username / Password underneath. A Use same credentials for all switches checkbox covers the common case; uncheck it to override per row.

3. 03
   Duplicate-IP guard

   If the same IP or host appears twice in the list, PiNT Live now flags it with a Yes/No warning before the poll runs. Defaults to No so a stray Enter doesn't push through and produce duplicate sheets in the export.

The old global Vendor and Username/Password sections are gone — that state now lives on the bulk modal (shared) or each row (per-switch). The sidebar is noticeably less busy as a result.

PiNT Desktop v1.5 · Passive mDNS

The mDNS browser used to follow a captured response with an active resolve step to fill in the sender's IP. v1.5 simply reads the unicast source address out of the IP layer of the response packet (pkt[IP].src) — no extra queries, no separate Resolve IPs button, no hostname-resolution chain. The UI is one button cleaner and the network footprint is one round-trip smaller per device. Windows EXE builds are now produced automatically via a GitHub Actions workflow.

The problem

PiNT Live can SSH into a switch and pull a per-port MAC table all day long, but a row that reads Port 12 → AABB.CCDD.EEFF doesn't tell you what's plugged in. To turn that into useful documentation you need IPs and, ideally, hostnames — and those live in the ARP table, not the switch.

The new workflow

1. 01
   PiNT Desktop v1.4

   Sweep each VLAN with the ARP scanner and export a flat IP / MAC / Hostname XLSX — one file per VLAN, in the exact schema PiNT Live's Load ARP List… sidebar consumes.

2. 02
   PiNT Live v0.3.0-rc2

   Accept those files via multi-select. Hold Ctrl/Shift, pick one per VLAN, and they merge into a single deduplicated ARP set — last-write-wins on IP, but blank hostnames never overwrite populated ones.

3. 03
   Export

   Each per-switch tab gains IP (from ARP) and Hostname (from ARP) columns sitting right next to the MAC column. The summary tab is unchanged.

Net result: Port → MAC → IP → Hostname as a single round-trip, with two small tools instead of one heavyweight platform.

What's next

PiNT LiveScan — a Pi-native ARP collector — is the natural follow-up. Drop a Pi onto each VLAN, let it sweep continuously, and feed PiNT Live without ever opening a laptop. That's the planned card on the roadmap and the long-term home for the ARP-collection step.