I installed Dashy a couple of days ago and have got things pretty much how I want them I think. There is more off the bottom of the screen but this screen shot shows the main things I need.

I’ve set the stats widgets to auto-collapse on load so they don’t take up the entire screen, and I’m pulling those from Glances running on my ProxMox server.

Really impressed with Dashy, and how easy it is to configure and customise.

  • cal4@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    off topic, I know, but I want that but for my life. net worth, credit score, weight, 1 mile run time, general wellness, etc…

    • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      This was a huge benefit of my self-hosting. I started with just file server and mythTV, but mythTV uses mySQL, and once I had a db running, I found all kind of other uses for it. I’ve used Quicken (2012) to track finances, but then I figured out I could use my brokerage’s API to get the raw data and make my own graphs. My rowing machine has an API to get all kind of metrics, including a heart monitor. Environmental sensors. I haven’t gone as far as ‘smart’ scale, or a wearable that would track sleep. Then a bunch of python to make pretty graphs for web pages.

      Honestly, I think it’s the pleasure of seeing new dots show up on the rowing graph that keeps me doing it.

    • rarkgrames@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      That would be awesome. Although I feel like it would be depressing opening a dashboard that showed 0, 0, 1 hour, bad etc… :)

  • MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Dashy is so impressive. It’s too bad it’s not easier to configure. I went through quite a few dashboards before finding Dashy and it’s easily my favorite. I just wish they had drag and drop and fixed some of the more game breaking bugs. That said it’s still my favorite

    • rarkgrames@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Drag and drop would be useful. Editing the conf.yml file isn’t too bad unless you accidentally mess up the spacing but I make backups before editing just in case.

      Now I’ve got it pretty much how I want it I’ll probably only be editing the config every so often. Adding new items is easy enough in the GUI, it’s only really widgets etc where I had to get my hands dirty.