Web Panel

Web panel

✨ Dust (v3) on the LilyGo T-Display S3 and M5StickC Plus. Other boards will get it as they migrate to v3.

Once the device is on your WiFi, it serves its own control panel to any browser on the same network. Everything you'd want to change after setup lives there — no re-flash, no factory reset, no serial console.

Finding it

Two ways:

• The dashboard header alternates between the device's name and its address, e.g. http://192.168.2.136 — shown only after unlock, deliberately: the locked screen never displays the address, so a passer-by isn't handed the login endpoint.
• The mDNS name http://claude-usage-stick.local works from macOS, iOS, Windows and most Linux — no router config needed. (Android's .local support is patchy; use the IP there.) If you set a device name during setup, the hostname is that name slugified — Desk Stick becomes desk-stick.local.

Logging in

The panel's password is the same 4-digit PIN you enter on the device buttons. There is no separate account and nothing new to remember.

Two things worth knowing:

• Logging in also unlocks the device. If the stick is sitting at its PIN screen, a successful browser login decrypts the token and the screen jumps straight to the dashboard — typing the PIN in a browser beats cycling digits with two buttons.
• Wrong attempts slow down exponentially (HTTP 429) but never wipe the device — the 10-attempt wipe only counts PINs typed on the physical buttons. Sessions live in RAM: a reboot logs everyone out, and an idle session expires after 24 h. The full threat model is in Security.

What's on it

Section	What it does
Usage	The live dashboard mirrored in the browser — bars, reset countdowns, model mascots — plus a Refresh now button
Device	Firmware version, hostname, IP, WiFi signal, uptime, free heap, and whether the screen is locked
Display & refresh	Brightness, refresh interval (30 s – 5 min), timezone (GMT±, feeds the clock screen and the chart's day markers), device name, flip 180°
Screens	The display mode — static / carousel / clock — carousel dwell time, which screens rotate, and which model mascots render
7-day history	The same chart the device draws, rendered from the on-device history
Anthropic news	The headlines the news screen shows
Claude token	Replace the stored token — see below
WiFi	Scan networks and switch (the device reboots onto the new network)
Danger zone	Factory reset, armed only by typing ERASE

Rotating the token

The reason this panel exists. Tokens from claude setup-token expire after a year (or you may just want to revoke one), and until v3 the only way to swap tokens was a full factory reset.

1. Run claude setup-token in your terminal and copy the new token.
2. Open the panel → Claude token.
3. Paste the token, confirm with your PIN, hit Replace token.

The device re-encrypts it, swaps it live, and immediately test-drives it against the API so you get a verified / failed verdict on the spot. The token is write-only: no panel endpoint can ever read it back.

Good to know

• The panel is plain HTTP on your LAN — same trust model as the setup portal. Don't port-forward it to the internet.
• While the device is mid-fetch (every refresh, and a news fetch every 6 h) the panel pauses for a second or two — it's a single-core gadget doing one thing at a time.
• Changing the device name applies to the header immediately, but the new .local hostname only takes effect on the next reboot.