Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices
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#2Saw this last night, very cool!
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#3just a thought, make the examples more prominent. I almost thought I'd have to sign up just to try it, before I finally got to the "see it in action" bit all the way at the bottom of the page.
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#4very slick
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#5This 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 the temperature readings of 100,000 sensors across a farmland. Or 500,000 energy meters. Etc. That's what will be cool when people figure out how to do. How do you surface intelligence insights and the data that matters from an avalanche of data coming out of 100's of 1000's or even millions of devices. :-)
That's a free business idea, because not many folks are doing this yet, and none are doing it well.
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#6I 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 developing and maintaining the widgets (including stuff like mobile versions, fallbacks, etc...) and means I could just chuck data at a known config. Or, I could define my dashboard to go fetch that data and then have it displayed on the service's (custom branded) page.
Sure there are libraries that do parts of this, but nothing that really focuses on providing a whole-dashboard set of features and isn't quite opinionated on both how the overall dashboard should look and how each widget should behave.
But for now, I'll just keep writing all these widgets myself ... sigh.
Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices
#7This 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…
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Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices
#8This 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!
Re: Show HN: Simple Dashboards for Internet-Connected Devices
#9I 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.
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#10just a thought, make the examples more prominent. I almost thought I'd have to sign up just to try it, before I finally got to the "see it in action" bit all the way at the bottom of the page.
We appreciate the thought and will consider that. By the way, our examples are all live devices dweeting their data right now.