Heimdall seems to be the popular choice: https://github.com/linuxserver/Heimdall
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Homarr is more or less turnkey, as long as you use Docker to deploy your services.
Gives you a nice dashboard that you can configure however you like. It includes integration with a ton of existing services, as well as docker.
My setup:
Clicking on each service will open it's respective url.
The 'healthy' indicator at the top right of each service is it's container health. Clicking on that will expand to show cpu, ram and network usage. Some of these services/docker hosts are on separate machines; it all integrates together nicely.
This is what I use. I tried other ones, but this one is simple to set up and edit. It's very clean and has a ton of widgets for services. I would like it to have a login option, but that isn't a deal breaker.
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There are a bunch of other static site generators as well. They're mostly targeted at blogs and whatnot, but maybe that's a good thing if you want to leave some instructions/documentation about each one.
I think you pretty much just now wrote a landing page, you just need to turn those into links and host that page somewhere.
Sure, you could create a database or JSON file with attributes of each thing and use React or Node.js to generate the UI, but that doesn't seem necessary for a need on this scale - when things change just edit the landing page. I've been keeping links to my soft copies of D&D books and stuff with a simple HTML page for years, and I'm a web dev. No need to do work the requirements don't demand.
I love homepage for this purpose. Gorgeous, good UX, easy to configure, and lots of widgets/integrations.
Homepage is great, especially if the services are deployed on docker or Kubernetes. You can just add some metadata to each service and Homepage will automatically pick them up. No need to remember to update it directly for a new service.
I just hacked a simple HTML page for this, with big mobile friendly buttons.
That page is served by nginx in my server and is my default home page on my phone and desktop.
Hm interesting, no icons and no status indicator. At the same time over time you probably got it into your muscle memory where to press quickly. It's intriguing.
My requirement with this page is it has to load really fast, because I return to it often while working / browsing. So yeah, it's really lightweight and easy to maintain, as things come and go. The source is stored in Forgejo! (the "Code" button there).
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Im using homarr it works really good and is easy to configure
+1 for Homarr. I didn't need to learn how to write any configs. Everything can be setup in realtime, in the GUI, and is immediately testable. Homarr brought a homepage down to my skill level.
My only wish is to lock homepages behind user permissions but it's fine, my family friends don't intend to explore, just to get to where they're going.
I think this is possible nowdays.
In that case. Homarr is awesome, no complaints.
I probably won't retroact this, my family aren't going to explore and it was more to keep them on their specific homepage and stop them getting lost. New users will be locked to their specific page, I don't expect they'll ever go exploring to find out.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
Because I don't like software getting in my way I just cobbled together some HTML and CSS and call it a day.
Similar, but more fancy, I have a bash script that runs every 15 minutes and ingests a config file. The config file has a super simple CSV format of every service I have. It checks that all the services are operational and generates an HTML file from it. If any services are down the HTML will show its down, otherwise its just a helpful link.
I run my website as static site from within a Docker container, I wonder how I would get the information about the other containers into that site.
Do you directly serve that site from the host or do you run the script and write something in a volume the site has read access to or bind a file?
I host it on the host that runs the script and proxy it. I have one mission critial pi that is my uptime bot, pi hole and backup VPN if my elaborate server falls on its face. But you could easily use docker volumes too, and have the script push to that folder.
I wrote my own, using plain HTML/CSS. Actually the final .html file gets templated by ansible depending on what's installed on the server, but you can easily pick just the parts you need from the j2 template
Static, hand coded html. You can be as pretty as you want to be. A good learning exercise and since it is all static it will be fast and won't have more security issues.
Or if you want to learn a JS framework, you can also do it that way.
I wrote my minimal HTML+CSS dashboard with a touch of JavaScript and use it with pride.
Its blazing fast and quite customizable and no bells and whistles.
Here: https://github.com/gardiol/dashboard
You configure it with a touch of json.
No pictures on repo is always frustrating
And it also attracts more people to try/use it. (when they can see what it looks like when set up)
Ah, maybe will upload some.
Let me know if you do
I use organizr. It can use iframes to load the pages which makes for a very integrated experience. It can be a little more complex to get going and get your apps playing nice with the iframes. Also the development on it has slowed down a lot. I'm hoping it gets more love soon, but that alone has me looking for alternatives. There are several others I have seen. I'm looking at Homepage currently.
So far nothing seems better than organizr for my uses.
That's what I use. It goes under the radar a lot and I don't know why. I love that it shows me my sabnzb downloads and what streams are happening on Jellyfin at a glance.
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I just made a landing page in HASS, if you're already running three instances could you make a page in one?
Hm, so you just used some cards to make links and icons somehow for that? But then I would need to replicate it on at least my dads and our instance.
Yep, here is the yaml but redacted
- type: entities
title: Communication
entities:
- type: weblink
name: Webmail
url: https://postale.io/
icon: mdi:email
- type: weblink
name: Mattermost
url: https://mm.stuff.com
icon: mdi:chat
- type: weblink
name: Mumble Server
url: https://mumble.stuff.com
icon: mdi:radio-handheld
I use wiki.js in the linuxserver.io flavor. I have 3 URLs for every service I run: public, LAN, and tailscale url. My "homepage" is a big markdown table with links to all the services. It's not pretty by any means, but it's very functional
Bookmarks are a thing
I have everything in bookmarks but the discoverability of them in my browser is not very good for the rest of the extended family.
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I'm super basic when it comes to dashboard. Spinning up a Heimdall docker container is so insanely easy and it lets me make nice looking links to all my services. Of all the things I've spent energy to try and learn to be better at, my dashboard has never been one and maybe it's time to revisit... But man, it's just a really quick compose file and one command and it's there.
That's pretty much me aswell, besides that I didn't even spend energy to try and learn others. Simple docker compose, simple ui and easy way to add services.
I am sure there are alternatives that allow for more elaborate setups and fancier things. But for the low effort I put into it, I got a page with some nice buttons with appropriate icons that scales to whatever screen size it's displayed on. Only additional thing I did was enabled to show some basic info to see if e.g. SABnzbd is downloading something, which was also super easy.
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GetHomepage.dev
I like homarr.
I've been using a modified and simplified version of Prismatic Night it's somewhat basic but I'm pretty happy with it. I've got startpages for my personal stuff, one for my wife and her personal stuff, and a couple for work.
Ah personalized ones, also a good idea
I use Homerr which is really simple, but you could also use Heimdall or some other options here
I use flame. It’s super simple and minimalistic. Best part is nothing random moves like homer/ar or whichever.
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