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Configurable self-hosted "personal dashboard"? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 years ago by sol@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I would like to have a screen in my home displaying a summary of different information that is relevant to me, like weather forecast, bus/train times, news headlines, etc. I was planning to use a Raspberry Pi and either buy a screen to display the information or just show it on my TV. It could probably be as simple as serving a page with HTML and JavaScript and then displaying it in a full screen web browser.

I feel like this is probably something that a lot of people want so I am wondering if there is something out there already that can easily be extended with custom "widgets". Nextcloud actually has a dashboard that's a bit like this but ideally I'd like something that is standalone and easier to extend with my own widgets.

Anyone have any recommendations?

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 2 points 3 years ago

If you want to skip the web browser + server part (well, sort of), you could also build your dashboard as an electron or nwjs app. That way you can easily make it go fullscreen on its own and it doesn't come with most browser UI around your page. It's still running essentially Chrome, but it has some advantages if you need to interact with system things, run shell commands at the press of a button, etc.