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Hey, self-hosting nerds, what are you using as a "dashboard" or "homescreen"? (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@hexbear.net
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I have Homarr set up, but I realized over the weekend that the thing eats 7GB of memory... Which feels like way to much for something that is just displaying me information (I'm no web dev though so what do I know). I know there is a lot of stuff in this category; Dashy, Homer, Homepage, Glance, Heimdall, Fenrus, Organizr, etc...

The thing I used Homarr for the most is as my "homepage" in my browser. I had some basic information in there, like my calendar, a list of my hosted services, weather. I had another page that would let me see progress on active downloads, but not something I'd use all the time.

Seems like the reason Homarr eats so much memory is that it's built on NodeJS and the Next.js react framework. Most of these tools feel like overkill for what I actually want, which is just a replacement for the new tab/home page in my browser.

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[–] 17 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Plain HTML full of <details><summary> tags. Its not even hosted. It just sits in ~/Documents/index.html and gets synced with syncthing.

Firefox doesn't allow setting local HTML as your new tab page though...

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    I feel this. At some point, we have to come to terms with the fact that half of this stuff could be replaced by a single HTML file. Reminds me of all those "New Tab" extensions that might as well be a freshmen's "my first web design" project. So many of them you could just code yourself in under a half hour or so.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    These Homepage services really fall into a gap of usefulness. They don't provide the level of monitoring you actually want, yet they're complete overkill for just a bookmark UI. They also need to work with everyone's jank so they get overly complicated.

    If you just want links, just write the HTML and spend an afternoon fiddling with the CSS. If you want some level of monitoring, you can write some JS to see if they can connect to the service. Any more monitoring and you'll want something like Prometheus/grafana.

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    • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I just memorize the IP addresses

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    • [–] 9 points 10 months ago*

    I just type in the URLs 😬

    7GB is absurd, just write a bit of HTML.

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    [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Currently I use bash, but I should really switch to zsh xhs-doge

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    [+] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] [S] 6 points 10 months ago

    Komodo

    Heh, monitor lizard. That's good. Plus, after looking at it, seems like useful software. I also like this part of the README file: There is no limit to the number of servers you can connect, and there will never be. There is no limit to what API you can use for automation, and there never will be. No "business edition" here.

    Glance does look nice, but yeah, I'm with you regarding YAML files. Some of these things support docker compose labels, and I couldn't think of a worse thing to maintain then a docker-compose file full of labels that make up the rest of the software configuration. Glance has a nice look, but good lord the amount of YAML files you'll end up managing. Plus, you know, it's full of freeze-gamer and stonks-up energy. Like, do I really need a whole YAML config file to track the fucking NASDAQ, who even cares that much?

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    • [–] 5 points 10 months ago*

    Depends on what you need it for. I use Prometheus+Grafana to monitor all my services. The nice thing is that a lot of services already export their metrics for your Prometheus server to scrape so you don't need to do any extra work. I also like to just use Proxmox web UI to quickly look at the state of my server.

    I tried playing around with things like Homepage and found them to be mostly useless. You could make a very nice looking and functional homepage with just Grafana

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    https://heimdall.site/ for my links homepage and I just check my hypervisor management interface if I want to see how things are running.

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I just use bookmarks.

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Dashy^[https://dashy.to/]

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Hubleys

    https://github.com/knrdl/hubleys-dashboard

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Bounced around between a few. Started on Heimdall, then moved to Organizr for the tiered-permissions and Jellyfin-based SSO features, but then after moving accounts to an LDAP server ended up switching to Homepage for just a really simple graphical bookmark page. Homarr is also approaching release on a big new revision that looks really promising, so I may migrate to that when it's done.

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    [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I tried most of them, and I really like homepage. It's simple, and it looks good on desktop and mobile.

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