What is this?

PyDashery is just another dashboard. Backend runs Python (hence the name), and frontend is a web page using JavaScript and WebSockets to stay updated.

The goal was to keep the structure simple, yet easily extensible. If it works as planned adding a new widget requires only adding the relevant code and template on the backend, updating settings, and then it should already be visible on your screen.

How to use it?

Well, the documentation is still a bit shit, but the basic idea is fairly simple.

1. Clone this repo, download a .ZIP, or in some manner get the contents to a computer you want to run the PyDashery backend on.

2. Edit backend/settings.py, the WIDGETS is likely the thing you want to configure. Each entry defines the widget to be loaded, the type has to match the TYPE attribute of the Widget class, the rest are passed to widgets as settings.

3. Set up pre-requisites for the backend, in the backend/ -directory execute: pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run the backend, in the backend/ -directory execute: python -m pydashery

5. Point your favorite (modern) browser to the PyDashery server, e.g. if running locally with default settings: http://localhost:8080/

6. Create your own widgets, check out examples in the backend/widgets/ and backend/templates/ -directories.

Setting it on on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian

Configure your Raspberry Pi with the default user, and autostart to graphics mode.

Check out PyDashery

git clone https://github.com/lietu/pydashery.git

Install requirements etc. tools to help setting up the service

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev python-virtualen virtualenvwrapper supervisor

Disable screen saving, auto start chromium on boot

echo '@xset s noblank
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
/usr/bin/chromium --kiosk --disable-restore-session-state "http://127.0.0.1:8080"
' > /home/pi/.config/openbox/autostart

Set up service to run PyDashery

sudo ln -s /home/pi/pydashery/salt/roots/salt/pydashery/supervisor-pydashery.conf /etc/supervisor/conf.d/

Reboot the device

sudo reboot

Ok, so what's the license like?

Short answer: MIT and new BSD.

Long answer: Read the LICENSE.md -file.

Financial support

This project has been made possible thanks to Cocreators and Lietu. You can help us continue our open source work by supporting us on Buy me a coffee.