From ece0ef48a1ee6860738f5cf4840dfa13369f8c2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Marcus=20Gren=C3=A4ngen?= <marcus@grenangen.se>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 20:38:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Potential fix for odd devices showing in tailnet. Issue
 #106

---
 src/models/TailDeviceInfo.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 src/models/TailStatus.h     | 14 +++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/models/TailDeviceInfo.h b/src/models/TailDeviceInfo.h
index 827b77c..0243878 100644
--- a/src/models/TailDeviceInfo.h
+++ b/src/models/TailDeviceInfo.h
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ class TailDeviceInfo final : public QObject
     QString os{};
     QString curAddr{};
     QString relay{};
+    QDateTime created {};
+    QDateTime lastSeen {};
     QList<QString> tailscaleIPs{};
     QList<QString> allowedIPs{};
     QList<QString> tags{};
@@ -93,6 +95,8 @@ class TailDeviceInfo final : public QObject
         , addrs(other.addrs)
         , curAddr(other.curAddr)
         , relay(other.relay)
+        , created(other.created)
+        , lastSeen(other.lastSeen)
         , online(other.online)
         , exitNode(other.exitNode)
         , exitNodeOption(other.exitNodeOption)
@@ -120,6 +124,8 @@ class TailDeviceInfo final : public QObject
         addrs = other.addrs;
         curAddr = other.curAddr;
         relay = other.relay;
+        created = other.created;
+        lastSeen = other.lastSeen;
         online = other.online;
         exitNode = other.exitNode;
         exitNodeOption = other.exitNodeOption;
@@ -173,6 +179,15 @@ class TailDeviceInfo final : public QObject
         self.exitNodeOption = jsonReadBool(obj, "ExitNodeOption");
         self.online = jsonReadBool(obj, "Online");
         self.active = jsonReadBool(obj, "Active");
+        self.relay = jsonReadString(obj, "Relay");
+
+        // Try to parse created
+        auto createdStr = jsonReadString(obj, "Created");
+        self.created = QDateTime::fromString(createdStr, Qt::DateFormat::ISODateWithMs);
+
+        // And try to parse last seen
+        auto lastSeenStr = jsonReadString(obj, "LastSeen");
+        self.lastSeen = QDateTime::fromString(lastSeenStr, Qt::DateFormat::ISODateWithMs);
 
         if (obj.contains("KeyExpiry") && !obj["KeyExpiry"].isNull()) {
             self.keyExpiry = QDateTime::fromString(obj["KeyExpiry"].toString(), Qt::DateFormat::ISODate);
diff --git a/src/models/TailStatus.h b/src/models/TailStatus.h
index 1e30e00..fcc4d56 100644
--- a/src/models/TailStatus.h
+++ b/src/models/TailStatus.h
@@ -145,7 +145,19 @@ class TailStatus final : public QObject
                 if (child.isNull()) {
                     continue;
                 }
-                newStatus.peers.push_back(TailDeviceInfo::parse(child.toObject()));
+                auto dev = TailDeviceInfo::parse(child.toObject());
+
+                // NOTE: If the created date is way back in time something is off, this has been reported
+                // by users. For more info:
+                // See issue https://github.com/SneWs/tail-tray/issues/106
+                if (dev.created.date().year() < 2020) {
+                    // Don't track expired or invalid devices that should be of no interest to the user
+                    // From the issue above we can see some odd dates like 1973-01 so it's not unix epoc either...
+                    // So I just picked a year before Tailscale was funded/started for now... please
+                    // correct this if you can figure out why this happens on some users tailnets.
+                    continue;
+                }
+                newStatus.peers.push_back(dev);
             }
         }
 

From 00e0712c9ebef8dc895ad05dac3fa599b9b4247f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Marcus=20Gren=C3=A4ngen?= <marcus@grenangen.se>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2026 20:51:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Make sure to filter out devices lacking a dns name

---
 src/models/TailStatus.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/models/TailStatus.h b/src/models/TailStatus.h
index fcc4d56..526b823 100644
--- a/src/models/TailStatus.h
+++ b/src/models/TailStatus.h
@@ -150,6 +150,11 @@ class TailStatus final : public QObject
                 // NOTE: If the created date is way back in time something is off, this has been reported
                 // by users. For more info:
                 // See issue https://github.com/SneWs/tail-tray/issues/106
+                if (dev.dnsName.isEmpty() || dev.dnsName.length() < 2) {
+                    // If no valid dns name, we ignore it...
+                    continue;
+                }
+
                 if (dev.created.date().year() < 2020) {
                     // Don't track expired or invalid devices that should be of no interest to the user
                     // From the issue above we can see some odd dates like 1973-01 so it's not unix epoc either...