Thank you. I did update to version 14.8 and nothing has changed but the UI.
Just tried it now. I have connected my iPhone, a Fire tablet, Windows laptop and my smart TV to the same Wi-Fi as my Mac, I was reading my emails, did web browsing, YouTube, Netflix, moved files to my cloud storage, edited online documents and I also sync browser activity between my Mac and iPhone so I opened a website on iPhone and then I went to my Mac and told it to open the website I have opened on my iPhone. I even used Siri to do some online search for me and I did stream videos from my tablet to my TV over Wi-Fi.
I have monitoring running and the Wi-Fi inspector did not detect any of this, currently it is reporting there is no devices connected to my network.
I was playing around with my devices about 60 minutes, some of them even downloaded updates. I think it should be plenty of time and network activity for Avast to notice something. But the Inspector saying, no devices connected after 60 minutes general use. I don't know why, when and how but sometime it does pick up the devices the moment they connect to the network but 9 times out of 10 it does not.
If I run a manual scan, it is find most devices most of the time, but not always, sometime even the manual scan does not work. And after if I run monitoring, the Wi-Fi Inspector reporting the devices are connected even if I disconnect them and even after I restart my Mac.
I have an old Laptop running Haiku (an alternative operating system based on beOS) and for some reason, this laptop is not detected at all, not even if I run a manual scan, completely invisible to Wi-Fi inspector.
I have the Firewall enabled on my Mac and in the firewall options I have given permission to com.Avast.hns and com.Avast.proxy to receive incoming connections. Don't know if it necessary for the inspector to work at all but they have the permission to receive connection.
Maybe there is a logical explanation to this and the devices need to do something very specific on the network to be noticed, but it is advertised as get notified if your neighbours connecting or a hacker. So if the Wi-Fi inspector is not picking up general web browsing, video streaming, emails, file sync, messages on my network then how could possibly notice a hacker?
Thank you.