A minimal, self-contained bash dashboard for monitoring a home media server. Displays service health, disk usage, active Plex streams, download speed, uptime, and quick-access links — all in a single terminal window with an animated cat.
- Service monitoring (Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, AdGuard, Syncthing)
- Seagate external drive usage
- Active Plex stream count
- qBittorrent download speed
- System uptime
- Web UI quick-links table
- Auto-refresh every 60 seconds
- Animated cat patrols the bottom of the terminal
brew tap embmeals/tap
brew install terminal-dashboardgem install terminal-dashboard --source "https://rubygems.pkg.github.com/embmeals"- macOS (uses
defaults read,pgrep,tput) curl,python3- Plex Media Server running locally
- qBittorrent Web UI reachable on the network
All settings are at the top of lib/dashboard.sh:
| Variable | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
PLEX_TOKEN |
Read from macOS defaults | Plex authentication token |
QBIT_URL |
http://192.168.1.133:8080 |
qBittorrent Web UI address |
QBIT_USER |
admin |
qBittorrent username |
QBIT_PASS |
(empty) | qBittorrent password |
REFRESH_INTERVAL |
60 |
Seconds between data refreshes |
Set credentials via environment variables:
export QBIT_PASS="yourpassword"
./dashboard.shterminal-dashboardOr run directly from source:
chmod +x lib/dashboard.sh
./lib/dashboard.shPress Ctrl+C to exit. The terminal is automatically reset on exit.
MIT