What is the best way to get a web-based dashboard -- Castor, for example -- displaying on a wall-mounted television? Is it possible to do it through an AppleTV?
currently using the web based browser in our Panasonic TVs in the office.
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#32This looks nice! Can anyone recommend an opensource/self-hosted alternative? Would really like to set something like this up in the office but would prefer to host it on my internal network. Plus I like to tinker with things :)
Collectd with the statsd plugin is a really lightweight way of collecting the data. Collectd has several outputs, from rrds to grafana.
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#33What is the best way to get a web-based dashboard -- Castor, for example -- displaying on a wall-mounted television? Is it possible to do it through an AppleTV?
I have a pet-project for this purpose: https://github.com/vincentbernat/dashkiosk/. While it should work with any browser, my preferred way is to use an Android HDMI stick. Same price as a Pi, far more powerful (2D/3D acceleration, JIT compilation for Javascript). There is a companion Android app.
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#34How Castor different from any of the other data dashboard alternatives that exist? Is there anything that sets it apart from its competitors?
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#35Re: Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects
#36This looks nice! Can anyone recommend an opensource/self-hosted alternative? Would really like to set something like this up in the office but would prefer to host it on my internal network. Plus I like to tinker with things :)
Collectd with the statsd plugin is a really lightweight way of collecting the data. Collectd has several outputs, from rrds to grafana.
Thanks, this looks like it'll suit my needs. I just wanted something I can pull a JSON feed into and have it display a handful of simple stats (sales for the day and their respective statuses, inventory overview - low stock alerts etc). The Grafana UI looks very attractive. Appreciate the suggestion.
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#37One of the things that really hit home at my last job and that I see missing from a lot of these dashboards is comparative context. So I walk in in the morning and we have a dashboard for vists and signups / payments and it shows lots of visits and no payments. Is that normal? Is that expected or concerning? Without showing what it was yesterday at the same time or on the same day last week, or weekly/monthly avg how…
When I've built dashboards I usually try and show that by having barcharts of averages for different time periods.
Example: MRR+ Today, MRR+/Day over last 7 days, MRR+/Day over last 30 days, etc. It's still not perfect, but it adds at least an element of that "at a glance" context.
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#38New year, new SaaS dashboard company...
It's nice to see transparent pricing though I wonder how realistic it is. $4/month for unlimited everything, regardless of customer size? While it's nice to see pricing thats 1-2 orders of magnitude less that competitors (seriously look it up), forget turning a profit, you could easily get net-negative per customer on bandwidth pricing alone.
The trailer says, "Castor is a service edited by 10033111 Canada Inc. By using Castor, you agree to our terms and conditions." yet it doesn't have a link to the terms of service. Also, not judging too much but "10033111 Canada Inc" sounds like the name of a company created by a computer that makes companies.
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#39New year, new SaaS dashboard company... It's nice to see transparent pricing though I wonder how realistic it is. $4/month for unlimited everything, regardless of customer size? While it's nice to see pricing thats 1-2 orders of magnitude less that competitors (seriously look it up), forget turning a profit, you could easily get net-negative per customer on bandwidth pricing alone. The trailer says, " Castor is a ser…
It's a numbered corporation, an easy way to set up a company in Canada.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_company
Named companies cost more, IIRC.
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#40New year, new SaaS dashboard company... It's nice to see transparent pricing though I wonder how realistic it is. $4/month for unlimited everything, regardless of customer size? While it's nice to see pricing thats 1-2 orders of magnitude less that competitors (seriously look it up), forget turning a profit, you could easily get net-negative per customer on bandwidth pricing alone. The trailer says, " Castor is a ser…
It's a numbered corporation, an easy way to set up a company in Canada. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_company Named companies cost more, IIRC.
Just read a bit more about numbered corporations in Canada. That's a pretty neat solution to ensuring uniqueness of corporate names. It's like the non-tech equivalent of a central service issuing sequential IDs.