Dashy

A configurable browser view to displays dashboards or other websites on the available monitors.

Features

• Multi monitor aware
• Group urls to always be visible on the same monitor
• Configurable refresh interval per URL

Installation

Installers can be downloaded here: https://github.com/apollux/dashy/releases Alternatively you can build your own by cloning the repo and running: yarn && yarn run dist

Configuration

Configuration is done through a config.json file. On Linux this should be placed at ~/.config/Dashy/config.json On Windows the this should be placed at %APPDATA%/Dashy/config.json.

The controls window can remain hidden on startup by setting "hideControlsOnStart": true.

The cycle time is controlled by cycleTime. This defaults to 15000 which represents 15 seconds.

The URLs to load can be configured in a couple of different ways.

List of URLs to spread evenly over the available monitors

{
  "urls": ["https://foo.bar", "https://foo.baz", "https://foo.bas"]
}

When a single monitor is available, the three URLs will rotate every 15s, on multiple monitors the URLs will be spread evenly over the available monitors and may rotate when needed.

Group URLs to be on same monitor

{
  "urls": [["https://foo.bar", "https://foo.baz"], "https://foo.bas"]
}

Regardless of the number of available monitors foo.bar and foo.baz will rotate on the same monitor.

Auto refresh URL

{
  "urls": [
    { "url": "https://foo.bar", "refreshInterval": 5000 },
    "https://foo.baz",
    "https://foo.bas"
  ]
}

This will refresh foo.bar every 5 seconds.

Usage

The ControlWindow (F12) allows for pausing of cycling the pages and manually stepping to a certain page. This allows for configuration or entering credentials on a page.

The dev tools of open pages and the control window can be toggled with Ctrl+F12