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

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Post by donatj »

I can't seem to get basic auth working. I know basic is "bad" form, but we have APIs we still expose them selves via it and that would be very nice to support.

I tried both Authorization: Basic [hash] header as well as the even worse http://username:password@site.com/api and neither worked.

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

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Post by jheising »

donatj wrote: post #21

I can't seem to get basic auth working. I know basic is "bad" form, but we have APIs we still expose them selves via it and that would be very nice to support. I tried both Authorization: Basic [hash] header as well as the even worse http://username:password@site.com/api and neither worked.

donatj, I would expect that both of those would work, but I can check into adding this as a feature. A lot of times this is actually an issue with CORS. The API would need to add a CORS header for freeboard.io. Or if the API supports JSONP, you can overcome this without a CORS header.

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

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Post by jheising »

lazyant wrote: post #20
Bug_Labs wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Check the repository again. I just updated the Readme.md to add some more docs on loading and creating plugins. Let me know if this helps. Thanks!

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

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Post by lazyant »

jheising wrote: post #23
lazyant wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Check the repository again. I just updated the Readme.md to add some more docs on loading and creating plugins. Let me know if this helps. Thanks!

yes, it does help, everything's JS, I wasn't going crazy

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

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Post by jheising »

lazyant wrote: post #24
jheising wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Check the repository again. I just updated the Readme.md to add some more docs on loading and creating plugins. Let me know if this helps. Thanks!

yes, it does help, everything's JS, I wasn't going crazy

Yeah it's 100% client side.

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

#27

Post by jheising »

zokier wrote: post #25

Is it strictly read-only? It would seem like a natural extension to make this a complete control center where in addition to monitoring you could also control your devices.

Our core focus is read-only at the moment, but yes, command and control has been very much on our mind for a while and I think is going to be a next logical step. Technically you could implement C&C with a plugin right now, but we want to make it more of first-class feature at some point.

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

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Post by dholowiski »

grahamburger wrote: post #19
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.

But... this could be the front end for Zabbix measurements!
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