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Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

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Post by richthegeek »

Bug_Labs wrote: post #9
richthegeek wrote: post #6

I am seeing an opportunity for a service that provides the following, and perhaps it already exists: 1. A unified source of dashboards/dashboard widgets 2. which accept data in one or more known and well-documented format(s) 3. which are largely configurable and themeable 4. which can be embedded as either a whole dashboard or individual widgets This would allow that service to manage all the hard work of actually de…

Thank you for the feedback Rich. You can build your own widgets in Freeboard, and once completed, users can share new widgets directly with each other through GitHub. We are looking to build a marketplace of sorts as well, populated by the community, and curated for convenience.

In my case it's for a CRM / marketing dashboard, so the data is more stuff like "pageviews over time" or "sales today vs last week".

I'm fairly sure that the actual data is unimportant if the widgets and data format are sufficiently generalised.

The important parts for me are how style-able the widgets are... seems like everyone is going for these carbon-black dashboards which isn't ideal for most of where we want to show it (ie, not a statusboard on a TV)

Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

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Post by Bug_Labs »

richthegeek wrote: post #11
Bug_Labs wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the feedback Rich. You can build your own widgets in Freeboard, and once completed, users can share new widgets directly with each other through GitHub. We are looking to build a marketplace of sorts as well, populated by the community, and curated for convenience.

In my case it's for a CRM / marketing dashboard, so the data is more stuff like "pageviews over time" or "sales today vs last week". I'm fairly sure that the actual data is unimportant if the widgets and data format are sufficiently generalised. The important parts for me are how style-able the widgets are... seems like everyone is going for these carbon-black dashboards which isn't ideal for most of where we want to…

Understood. One of the great things about freeboard is that it is open source and you can change CSS, colors or anything you want on your own.

Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

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Post by davidu »

Bug_Labs wrote: post #8
davidu wrote: post #5

This is cool, but I think your description is a misnomer. This is a dashboard for Internet-connected devices that provide various readings and status updates. In my world (enterprise security) -- "Internet of Things" generally means the connectedness of many things at scale. So when I saw the description I got really excited that it'd be a dashboard to help monitor a million devices, or help surface intelligence from…

Great point! Freeboard is great for humanizing a single device, or multiple datasources at a time, but when you get into 100s of thousands of devices, freeboard can be used to visualize an analytics engine. By the way, you can use dweet.io to fill that database or analytics enginge to your hearts desire. Then use freeboard to see what is happening in that database!

Cool, cool. Nice work.

Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

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Post by gdilla »

richthegeek wrote: post #11
Bug_Labs wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the feedback Rich. You can build your own widgets in Freeboard, and once completed, users can share new widgets directly with each other through GitHub. We are looking to build a marketplace of sorts as well, populated by the community, and curated for convenience.

In my case it's for a CRM / marketing dashboard, so the data is more stuff like "pageviews over time" or "sales today vs last week". I'm fairly sure that the actual data is unimportant if the widgets and data format are sufficiently generalised. The important parts for me are how style-able the widgets are... seems like everyone is going for these carbon-black dashboards which isn't ideal for most of where we want to…

geckoboard may be able to do all this for you

Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

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Post by dang »

davidu wrote: post #5

This is cool, but I think your description is a misnomer. This is a dashboard for Internet-connected devices that provide various readings and status updates. In my world (enterprise security) -- "Internet of Things" generally means the connectedness of many things at scale. So when I saw the description I got really excited that it'd be a dashboard to help monitor a million devices, or help surface intelligence from…

We changed the title on your recommendation. We also turned off the voting ring detector so this post would be on the front page, because we want to see original work on HN.

(All: A voting ring is when people get their friends to upvote their posts. This is against the rules; we want stories because they're good, not because they're being promoted. Also, it's not in your interests. Even when we override the ring detector like this, which is rare, other penalties for ring-voting still apply.)

Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

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Post by Bug_Labs »

lazyant wrote: post #16

I quickly browsed the GitHub repo but I guess I'm not smart enough because I couldn't find the requirements/install instructions/faq to try this out.

Hi, you can try it out directly from the freeboard.io website. Just click on Start Now right on the front page!

Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

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Post by grahamburger »

davidu wrote: post #5

This is cool, but I think your description is a misnomer. This is a dashboard for Internet-connected devices that provide various readings and status updates. In my world (enterprise security) -- "Internet of Things" generally means the connectedness of many things at scale. So when I saw the description I got really excited that it'd be a dashboard to help monitor a million devices, or help surface intelligence from…

I'm doing something similar to that with Zabbix. Admittedly not yet to that scale.

Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices

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Post by lazyant »

Bug_Labs wrote: post #18
lazyant wrote: post #16

I quickly browsed the GitHub repo but I guess I'm not smart enough because I couldn't find the requirements/install instructions/faq to try this out.

Hi, you can try it out directly from the freeboard.io website. Just click on Start Now right on the front page!

I already tried it thanks, I want to know what it would take to install and play with the (open source) code
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