I used to go for a dashboard like this, but one day I realised none of the stats are actually helpful for anything and stopped using it.
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It certainly is pretty to look at though
I use Homarr and initially created a really complex dash, but I’ve since whittled it down to just the bare essentials as a homepage.
Links to my most used web pages and self hosted services, and a couple of vital metrics that I would need to act upon quickly.
For everything else I have Grafana dashboards I can dip into as I need to.
I need to try Homarr again, but carefully.
I think my first experience ended with it causing a massive memory leak because I didn't configure it properly and its error logs got crazy out of control and crashed my server lol. 😂
It's worked well for me so far. I chose Homarr because it has a GUI for dashboard creation, I wanted the whole family to be able to use it and they aren't all up to editing YAML etc.
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Most are definitely just showing off; "Look at how many photos I have stored," "I have so many podcasts and ebooks," "Bow to me, mortals!"
On the flip, some are useful. PeaNUT gives UPS off/on line power status at a glance, Jellyfin shows active streams iirc, FreshRSS shows if there are unread feeds, Portainer shows if any containers have stopped, etc. Jellyfin is a big one since I don't have to get into the WebUI to see if updates or whatever are going to interrupt someone. Otherwise I'm mostly in agreement and just use links in lieu of widgets and silly API calls.
I guess I just feel like if I need to know something (something is offline etc) then I need a notification, I don't want to have to be checking a dashboard. I use Uptime Kuma for this.
I see your point with Jellyfin, but I also have the clicks to find active streams as muscle memory and it's not needed that often so I don't think I'd go setting up a dashboard just for that.
Yeah, Jellyfin was my best example. I've got the motions memorized, to get to the admin panel, as well but Homepage is my homepage so it saves those few seconds. I agree otherwise about urgent messages. Important stuff of mine hits a Discord webhook for now.
Eventually I'll set up some other alternative to get push notifications. I took the time to write a few half-assed cogs for pycord, and I enjoy(ed) the process and using them, but I don't really trust the platform. I might need to give good old IRC a go again. I'm sure some Android client can do push notifications on a specific channel/sender basis.
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Its my homepage for any new tab, and most of the time I just use it as a shortcut to get to the tool I want. Latency is ok for a quick view of status, but I get alerts, so I don't really use/care about that as a feature.
But the calendar I use all the time. Upcoming shows, events for the family, etc.
This is 95% more information than you can consume or find useful. I cannot get these type of homepages except to have done a thing and feel happy about it. My “homepage” is a link to all my services, but I rarely use it because of that thing in between my ears that allows me to remember what service I want to use.
I cannot get these type of homepages except to have done a thing and feel happy about it.
There is much merit in doing a thing if only for the experience of doing it.
that thing in between my ears
Yes, well, some of us have dented brains. Plus I like a good UI. I'd rather just click an icon.
I keep trying to use these, install and configure them, then never touch them again. I run across them when I'm roaming around on my one of my docker servers a year later and nuke them.
I'd love to find something that sticks, though. Hasn't happened yet.
I like homarr. But it’s just a glorified link tree for me.
But when you have like 20+ services just remembering them and where they are hosted some organisation goes a long way
Thank you for saying that. I always wonder if veterans really need to know that much information at all times. As a hobbyist, I only care about when things don't work. My homepage is just a bunch of icons. I could have put them in the browser as a bookmark but it's just not convenient. Then I set up Dockhand to alert me when things go wrong. That's it.
I always wonder if veterans really need to know that much information at all times.
Actually I suffer from something called "monitoring fatigue" or "notification fatigue" at work. There's so many monitoring notifications, half of which are nothingburgers, that I seriously hate that part of my job is responding to them.
I already disabled notifications for my email in our monitoring system and now there's just another department monitoring the monitoring system and creating tickets for me. I can't escape it.
Yea, dashboards are useless. Eventually you learn alerts are all that matter.
I share this sentiment. I have Beszel running on my homelab but I so rarely use it.
So the Nathan Bedford Forrest Holiday stands out a bit...
Consequence of living in the state that gave the world the KKK. It's an official state holiday, so it shows up in a lot of holiday presets by default if your location is TN. Pretty shit situation all around, but I get why a TN resident would have it without wanting it. I've had it in my calendar before :/
Man, TIL. That's pretty disgusting. :(
Damn it just creeps up on you every year, doesn't it? I need to get to work on my parade float ASAP! Does anyone have any spare pillowcases?
Nice dashboard OP. Very clean
What are you using for this dashboard?
It's called "Homepage". Essentially a configuration file driven dashboard: https://gethomepage.dev/
How do you set it up? You have to edit the yaml file manually?
I’m using Heimdall right now and it’s easy to setup and has decent integration.
It has a yaml based config structure, more details here https://gethomepage.dev/configs/
It also has support for discovery through labels/annotations
Wait it has built in reverse proxy?
Not as far as I know, I use Nginx Proxy Manager for that.
No?
Are the stats configurable?
Yes
I've had trouble arranging the columns properly, but I'm still using it as a nice overview. I even set it as startpage in my browser after decades of about:blank
Looks a lot like mine. Except I have not put Beszel on the damn ROUTER, lol.
who has a good front end for caldav?
Most calender apps are frontends for caldav...
Not the OP, but I wanted something accessible from the browser. I found very few self-hosted solutions.
Adding https://github.com/Ivan-Malinovski/calino to the ones already mentioned. I need to stop being lazy and spin it up.
I think I remember this one. I was a bit apprehensive about it because it looks like it's at least partially vibe-coded.
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Jesus. I already struggle to keep 3 services run stable.
How does one get the info about upcoming tv or movies?
I think it is querying sonarr
~~I see BentoPDF and IT Tools but no OmniTools. Shame.~~
Otherwise, nice dashboard.
Edit: it's there.
It’s there. Far left above the calendars at the very bottom.
I've tried like 3 different recipe apps like the one listed, and none of them did the one feature they all claimed they were built around - importing recipes from the biggest recipe sites. It never worked properly. Even trying the various work arounds going through intermediate sites that could supposedly parse them better.
My partner and I quite like Mealie. It doesn't import 100% perfectly like you say, but it does probably 90% of the work.
I think that was one of the ones I tried, but the 3 different recipe sites (big ones) that I tried basically brought back maybe 1/4 of the recipe at best.
It just wasn't reliable enough to hand off to my wife to replace her pen and paper meal planning
In my experience with Mealie, most sites work, but I think some don't allow scraping or something because every once in awhile we can't import a recipe.
Alternatively they have a built in AI that can scan an image, so if you feed it a screenshot of a recipe it'll likely get it in there (may need to double check stuff though)
Every homepage made with Homepage.dev looks the same to me, no matter how much you configure their settings.yaml or services.yaml it all looks the same.
Surprised you didnt slap a background image on it and blurred it.
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