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Widgets

Dashy has support for displaying dynamic content in the form of widgets. There are several built-in widgets available out-of-the-box as well as support for custom widgets to display stats from almost any service with an API.

ℹ️ Note: Widgets are still in the Alpha-phase of development. If you find a bug, please raise it.
Adding / editing widgets through the UI isn't yet supported, you will need to do this in the YAML config file.

Contents

General Widgets

Clock

A simple, live-updating time and date widget with time-zone support. All fields are optional.

Options
Field Type Required Description
timeZone string Optional The time zone to display date and time in.
Specified as Region/City, for example: Australia/Melbourne. See the Time Zone DB for a full list of supported TZs. Defaults to the browser / device's local time
format string Optional A country code for displaying the date and time in local format.
Specified as [ISO-3166]-[ISO-639], for example: en-AU. See here for a full list of locales. Defaults to the browser / device's region
hideDate boolean Optional If set to true, the date and city will not be shown. Defaults to false
Example
- type: clock
  options:
    timeZone: Europe/London
    format: en-GB
    hideDate: false
Info

No external data requests

Weather

A simple, live-updating local weather component, showing temperature, conditions and more info.

Options
Field Type Required Description
apiKey string Required Your OpenWeatherMap API key. You can get one for free at openweathermap.org
city string Required A city name to use for fetching weather. This can also be a state code or country code, following the ISO-3166 format
units string Optional The units to use for displaying data, can be either metric or imperial. Defaults to metric
hideDetails boolean Optional If set to true, the additional details (wind, humidity, pressure, etc) will not be shown. Defaults to false
Example
- type: weather
  options:
    apiKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    city: London
    units: metric
    hideDetails: false
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🔴 Required
  • Price: 🟠 Free plan
  • Privacy: See OWM Privacy Policy

Weather Forecast

Displays the weather (temperature and conditions) for the next few days for a given location. Note that this requires either the free OpenWeatherMap Student Plan, or the Premium Plan.

Options
Field Type Required Description
apiKey string Required Your OpenWeatherMap API key. You can get one for free at openweathermap.org
city string Required A city name to use for fetching weather. This can also be a state code or country code, following the ISO-3166 format
numDays number Optional The number of days to display of forecast info to display. Defaults to 4, max 16 days
units string Optional The units to use for displaying data, can be either metric or imperial. Defaults to metric
hideDetails boolean Optional If set to true, the additional details (wind, humidity, pressure, etc) will not be shown. Defaults to false
Example
- type: weather-forecast
  options:
    city: California
    numDays: 6
    apiKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    units: imperial
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🔴 Required
  • Price: 🔴 Premium (free for personal use only)
  • Privacy: See OWM Privacy Policy

Crypto Watch List

Keep track of price changes of your favorite crypto assets. Data is fetched from CoinGecko. All fields are optional.

Options
Field Type Required Description
assets string Optional An array of cryptocurrencies, coins and tokens. See list of supported assets. If none are specified, then the top coins by sortBy (defaults to market cap) will be returned
currency string Optional The fiat currency to display price in, expressed as an ISO-4217 alpha code (see list of currencies). Defaults to USD
sortBy string Optional The method of sorting results. Can be marketCap, volume or alphabetical. Defaults to marketCap.
limit number Optional Number of results to return, useful when no assets are specified. Defaults to either all or 100
Example
- type: crypto-watch-list
  options:
    limit: 10

Or

  - type: crypto-watch-list
    options:
      currency: GBP
      sortBy: marketCap
      assets:
      - bitcoin
      - ethereum
      - monero
      - cosmos
      - polkadot
      - dogecoin
Info

Crypto Token Price History

Shows recent price history for a given crypto asset, using price data fetched from CoinGecko

Options
Field Type Required Description
asset string Required Name of a crypto asset, coin or token to fetch price data for, see list of supported assets
currency string Optional The fiat currency to display results in, expressed as an ISO-4217 alpha code (see list of currencies). Defaults to USD
numDays number Optional The number of days of price history to render. Defaults to 7, min: 1, max: 30 days
chartColor string Optional Color of the chart value. Defaults to --widget-text-color which inherits dashboard primary color
chartHeight number Optional The height of rendered chart in px. Defaults to 300
Example
- type: crypto-price-chart
  options:
    asset: bitcoin
    currency: GBP
    numDays: 7
Info

RSS Feed

Display news and updates from any RSS-enabled service.

Options
Field Type Required Description
rssUrl string Required The URL location of your RSS feed
apiKey string Optional An API key for rss2json. It's free, and will allow you to make 10,000 requests per day, you can sign up here
limit number Optional The number of posts to return. If you haven't specified an API key, this will be limited to 10
orderBy string Optional How results should be sorted. Can be either pubDate, author or title. Defaults to pubDate
orderDirection string Optional Order direction of feed items to return. Can be either asc or desc. Defaults to desc
Example
- type: rss-feed
  options:
    rssUrl: https://www.schneier.com/blog/atom.xml
    apiKey: xxxx
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🟠 Optional
  • Price: 🟠 Free Plan (up to 10,000 requests / day)
  • Privacy: See Rss2Json Privacy Policy

Code Stats

Display your coding summary. Code::Stats is a free and open source app that aggregates statistics about your programming activity. Dashy supports both the public instance, as well as self-hosted versions.

Options
Field Type Required Description
username string Required Your CodeStats username
hostname string Optional If your self-hosting CodeStats, then supply the host name. By default it will use the public hosted instance
monthsToShow number Optional Specify the number of months to render in the historical data chart. Defaults to 6
hideMeta boolean Optional Optionally hide the meta section (username, level, all-time and recent XP)
hideHistory boolean Optional Optionally hide the historical calendar heat map
hideLanguages boolean Optional Optionally hide the programming languages pie chart
hideMachines boolean Optional Optionally hide the machines percentage chart
Example
- type: code-stats
  options:
    username: alicia
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🟢 Not Required
  • Price: 🟢 Free
  • Host: Self-Hosted or Managed
  • Privacy: See Code::Stats Privacy Policy

Vulnerability Feed

Keep track of recent security advisories and vulnerabilities, with optional filtering by score, exploits, vendor and product. All fields are optional.

Options
Field Type Required Description
sortBy string Optional The sorting method. Can be either publish-date, last-update or cve-code. Defaults to publish-date
limit number Optional The number of results to fetch. Can be between 5 and 30, defaults to 10
minScore number Optional If set, will only display results with a CVE score higher than the number specified. Can be a number between 0 and 9.9. By default, vulnerabilities of all CVE scores are shown
hasExploit boolean Optional If set to true, will only show results with active exploits. Defaults to false
vendorId number Optional Only show results from a specific vendor, specified by ID. See Vendor Search for list of vendors. E.g. 23 (Debian), 26 (Microsoft), 23682 (CloudFlare)
productId number Optional Only show results from a specific app or product, specified by ID. See Product Search for list of products. E.g. 13534 (Docker), 15913 (NextCloud), 19294 (Portainer), 17908 (ProtonMail)
Example
- type: cve-vulnerabilities

or

- type: cve-vulnerabilities
  options:
    sortBy: publish-date
    productId: 28125
    hasExploit: true
    minScore: 5
    limit: 30
Info

Sports Scores

Show recent scores and upcoming matches from your favourite sports team. Data is fetched from TheSportsDB.com. From the UI, you can click any other team to view their scores and upcoming games, or click a league name to see all teams.

Options
Field Type Required Description
teamId string Optional The ID of a team to fetch scores from. You can search for your team on the Teams Page
leagueId string Optional Alternatively, provide a league ID to fetch all games from. You can find the ID on the Leagues Page
pastOrFuture string Optional Set to past to show scores for recent games, or future to show upcoming games. Defaults to past. You can change this within the UI
apiKey string Optional Optionally specify your API key, which you can sign up for at TheSportsDB.com
limit number Optional To limit output to a certain number of matches, defaults to 15
Example
- type: sports-scores
  options:
    teamId: 133636
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🟠 Optional
  • Price: 🟠 Free plan (upto 30 requests / minute, limited endpoints)
  • Host: Managed Instance Only
  • Privacy: ⚫ No Policy Available

Exchange Rates

Display current FX rates in your native currency. Hover over a row to view more info, or click to show rates in that currency.

Options
Field Type Required Description
inputCurrency string Required The base currency to show results in. Specified as a 3-letter ISO-4217 code, see here for the full list of supported currencies, and their symbols
outputCurrencies array Required List or currencies to show results for. Specified as a 3-letter ISO-4217 code, see here for the full list of supported currencies, and their symbols
apiKey string Required API key for exchangerate-api.com, usually a 24-digit alpha-numeric string. You can sign up for a free account here
Example
- type: exchange-rates
  options:
    apiKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    inputCurrency: GBP
    outputCurrencies:
      - USD
      - JPY
      - HKD
      - KPW
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🔴 Required
  • Price: 🟠 Free plan (upto 100,000 requests/ month)
  • Host: Managed Instance Only
  • Privacy: See ExchangeRateAPI Privacy Policy

Public Holidays

Counting down to the next day off work? This widget displays upcoming public holidays for your country. Data is fetched from Enrico

Options
Field Type Required Description
country string Required The region to fetch holiday data for, specified as a country code, e.g. GB or US
holidayType string Optional The type of holidays to fetch. Can be: all, public_holiday, observance, school_holiday, other_day or extra_working_day. Defaults to public_holiday
monthsToShow number Optional The number of months in advance to show. Min: 1, max: 24. Defaults to 12
Example
- type: public-holidays
  options:
    country: GB
    holidayType: all
    monthsToShow: 12
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🟢 Not Required
  • Price: 🟢 Free
  • Host: Self-Hosted (see jurajmajer/enrico) or Managed
  • Privacy: ⚫ No Policy Available

TFL Status

Shows real-time tube status of the London Underground. All fields are optional.

Options
Field Type Required Description
showAll boolean Optional By default, details for lines with a Good Service are not visible, but you can click More Details to see all. Setting this option to true will show all lines on initial page load
sortAlphabetically boolean Optional By default lines are sorted by current status, set this option to true to instead sort them alphabetically
linesToShow array Optional By default all lines are shown. If you're only interested in the status of a few lines, then pass in an array of lines to show, specified by name
Example
- type: tfl-status

  - type: tfl-status
    options:
      showAll: true
      sortAlphabetically: true
      linesToShow:
      - District
      - Jubilee
      - Central
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🟢 Not Required
  • Price: 🟢 Free
  • Host: Managed Instance Only
  • Privacy: See TFL Privacy Policy

Stock Price History

Shows recent price history for a given publicly-traded stock or share

Options
Field Type Required Description
apiKey string Required API key for Alpha Vantage, you can get a free API key here
stock string Required The stock symbol for the asset to fetch data for
priceTime string Optional The time to fetch price for. Can be high, low, open or close. Defaults to high
chartColor string Optional Color of the chart value. Defaults to --widget-text-color which inherits dashboard primary color
chartHeight number Optional The height of rendered chart in px. Defaults to 300
Example
- type: stock-price-chart
  options:
    stock: NET
    apiKey: PGUWSWD6CZTXMT8N
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🔴 Required
  • Price: 🟠 Free plan (upto 500 requests/day)
  • Host: Managed Instance Only
  • Privacy: See AlphaVantage Privacy Policy

Joke

Renders a programming or generic joke. Data is fetched from the JokesAPI by @Sv443. All fields are optional.

Options
Field Type Required Description
category string Optional Set the category of jokes to return. Use a string to specify a single category, or an array to pass in multiple options. Available options are: all, programming, pun, dark, spooky, christmas and misc. An up-to-date list of supported categories can be found here. Defaults to all
safeMode boolean Optional Set to true, to prevent the fetching of any NSFW jokes. Defaults to false
language string Optional Specify the language for returned jokes. The following languages are supported: en, cs, de, es, fr and pt, and an up-to-date list of supported languages can be found here. By default, your system language will be used, if it's supported, otherwise English
Example
- type: joke
  options:
    safeMode: true
    language: en
    category: Programming
Info

XKCD Comics

Have a laugh with the daily comic from XKCD. A classic webcomic website covering everything from Linux, math, romance, science and language. All fields are optional.

Options
Field Type Required Description
comic string / number Optional Choose which comic to display. Set to either random, latest or the series number of a specific comic, like 627. Defaults to latest
Example
- type: xkcd-comic
  options:
    comic: latest
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🟢 Not Required
  • Price: 🟢 Free
  • Privacy: ⚫ No Policy Available

News Headlines

Displays the latest news, click to read full article. Date is fetched from various news sources using Currents API

Options
Field Type Required Description
apiKey string Required Your API key for CurrentsAPI. This is free, and you can get one here
country string Optional Fetch news only from a certain country or region. Specified as a country code, e.g. GB or US. See here for a list of supported regions
category string Optional Only return news from within a given category, e.g. sports, programming, world, science. The following categories are supported
lang string Optional Specify the language for returned articles as a 2-digit ISO code (limited article support). The following languages are supported, defaults to en
count number Optional Limit the number of results. Can be between 1 and 200, defaults to 10
keywords string Optional Only return articles that contain an exact match within their title or description
Example
- type: news-headlines
    options:
      apiKey: xxxxxxx
      category: world
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🔴 Required
  • Price: 🟠 Free plan (upto 600 requests / day)
  • Host: Managed Instance Only
  • Privacy: See CurrentsAPI Privacy Policy

Flight Data

Displays airport departure and arrival flights, using data from AeroDataBox. Useful if you live near an airport and often wonder where the flight overhead is going to. Hover over a row for more flight data.

Options
Field Type Required Description
airport string Required The airport to show flight data from. Should be specified as a 4-character ICAO-code, a full list of which can be found here (example: KBJC or EGKK)
apiKey string Required A valid RapidAPI Key, with AeroDataBox enabled (check in your Subscription Dashboard). This API is free to sign up for and use
limit number Optional For busy airports, you may wish to limit the number of results visible
direction string Optional By default, both departure and arrival flights will be fetched, if you would like to only show flights in one direction, set this to wither departure or arrival
Example
- type: flight-data
  options:
    airport: EGLC
    apiKey: XXXXX
    limit: 12
    direction: all
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🔴 Required
  • Price: 🟠 Free plan (upto 150 requests / month)
  • Host: Managed Instance Only
  • Privacy: See AeroDataBox and RapidAPI Policy

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Show the NASA Astronomy Pictore of the Day. Data is fetched from APOD using PawelPleskaczynski/apod_api.

Options

No config options.

Example
- type: apod
Info

GitHub Trending

Displays currently trending projects on GitHub. Optionally specify a language and time-frame. Data is fetched from Lissy93/gh-trending-no-cors using the GitHub API. All fields are optional.

Options
Field Type Required Description
lang string Optional A programming language to fetch trending repos from that category. E.g. javascript or go
since string Optional The timeframe to use when calculating trends. Can be either daily, weekly or monthly. Defaults to daily
limit number Optional Optionally limit the number of results. Max 25, default is 10
Example
- type: github-trending-repos
  options:
    limit: 8
    since: weekly
Info

GitHub Profile Stats

Display stats from your GitHub profile, using embedded cards from anuraghazra/github-readme-stats

Options
Field Type Required Description
username string Required The GitHub username to fetch info for. E.g. lissy93. (Not required if hideProfileCard and hideLanguagesCard are both set to true)
hideProfileCard boolean Optional If set to true, the users profile card will not be shown. Defaults to false
hideLanguagesCard boolean Optional If set to true, the users top languages card will not be shown. Defaults to false
repos array Optional If you'd like to also display stats for some GitHub reposotories, then add an array or repo names here. Specified as [username]/[repo-name], e.g. lissy93/dashy
Example
- type: github-profile-stats
  options:
    username: Lissy93
    hideLanguagesCard: true
    repos:
    - lissy93/dashy
    - lissy93/personal-security-checklist
    - lissy93/twitter-sentiment-visualisation
Info

Public IP

Often find yourself searching "What's my IP", just so you can check your VPN is still connected? This widget displays your public IP address, along with ISP name and approx location. Data is fetched from IP-API.com.

Options

No config options.

Example
- type: public-ip
Info
  • CORS: 🟢 Enabled
  • Auth: 🟠 Optional
  • Price: 🟢 Free
  • Host: Managed Instance Only
  • Privacy: See IP-API Privacy Policy

Self-Hosted Services Widgets

System Info

Displays info about the server which Dashy is hosted on. Includes user + host, operating system, uptime and basic memory & load data.

Options

No config options.

Example
- type: system-info
Info

No external data requests made

Cron Monitoring (Health Checks)

Cron job monitoring using Health Checks. Both managed and self-hosted instances are supported.

Options
Field Type Required Description
apiKey string Required A read-only API key for the project to monitor. You can generate this by selecting a Project --> Settings --> API Access. Note that you must generate a separate key for each project
host string Optional If you're self-hosting, or using any instance other than the official (healthchecks.io), you will need to specify the host address. E.g. https://healthchecks.example.com or http://cron-monitoing.local
Example
- type: health-checks
  options:
    apiKey: XXXXXXXXX
Info

CPU History (NetData)

Pull recent CPU usage history from NetData.

Options
Field Type Required Description
host string Required The URL to your NetData instance
chartHeight number Optional The height of rendered chart in px. Defaults to 300
chartColor / chartColors string / array Optional Color of the chart value(s) as hex codes. chartColor is a single value (defaults to --widget-text-color), whereas chartColors is an array of colors
Example
- type: nd-cpu-history
  options:
  host: http://192.168.1.1:19999
Info

Memory History (NetData)

Pull recent system RAM usage from NetData, and show as a breakdown of different categories.

Options
Field Type Required Description
host string Required The URL to your NetData instance
chartHeight number Optional The height of rendered chart in px. Defaults to 300
chartColor / chartColors string / array Optional Color of the chart value(s) as hex codes. chartColor is a single value (defaults to --widget-text-color), whereas chartColors is an array of colors
Example
- type: nd-ram-history
  options:
    host: http://192.168.1.1:19999
Info

Load History (NetData)

Pull recent load usage in 1, 5 and 15 minute intervals, from NetData.

Options
Field Type Required Description
host string Required The URL to your NetData instance
chartHeight number Optional The height of rendered chart in px. Defaults to 300
chartColor / chartColors string / array Optional Color of the chart value(s) as hex codes. chartColor is a single value (defaults to --widget-text-color), whereas chartColors is an array of colors
Example
- type: nd-load-history
  options:
  host: http://192.168.1.1:19999
Info

Pi Hole Stats

Displays the number of queries blocked by Pi-Hole.

Options
Field Type Required Description
hostname string Required The URL to your Pi-Hole instance
hideStatus / hideChart / hideInfo boolean Optional Optionally hide any of the three parts of the widget
Example
- type: pi-hole-stats
  options:
    hostname: http://192.168.130.1
Info

Pi Hole Queries

Shows top queries that were blocked and allowed by Pi-Hole.

Options
Field Type Required Description
hostname string Required The URL to your Pi-Hole instance
apiKey string Required Your Pi-Hole web password. It is NOT your pi-hole admin interface or server password. It can be found in /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf, and is a 64-character located on the line that starts with WEBPASSWORD
count number Optional The number of queries to display. Defaults to 10
Example
- type: pi-hole-top-queries
  options:
    hostname: https://pi-hole.local
    apiKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Info

Recent Traffic

Shows number of recent traffic, using allowed and blocked queries from Pi-Hole

Options
Field Type Required Description
hostname string Required The URL to your Pi-Hole instance
Example
- type: pi-hole-traffic
  options:
    hostname: https://pi-hole.local
Info

Stat Ping Statuses

Displays the current and recent uptime of your running services, via a self-hosted instance of StatPing

Options
Field Type Required Description
hostname string Required The URL to your StatPing instance, without a trailing slash
Example
- type: stat-ping
  options:
    hostname: http://192.168.130.1:8080
Info

Dynamic Widgets

Iframe Widget

Embed any webpage into your dashboard as a widget.

Options
Field Type Required Description
url string Required The URL to the webpage to embed
frameHeight number Optional If needed, specify height of iframe in px. E.g. 400, defaults to auto
Example
- type: iframe
  options:
    url: https://fiatleak.com/

HTML Embedded Widget

Many websites and apps provide their own embeddable widgets. These can be used with Dashy using the Embed widget, which lets you dynamically embed and HTML, CSS or JavaScript contents.

⚠️ NOTE: Use with extreme caution. Embedding a script from an untrustworthy source may have serious unintended consequences.

Options
Field Type Required Description
html string Optional HTML contents to render in the widget
script string Optional Raw JavaScript code to execute (caution)
scriptSrc string Optional A URL to JavaScript content (caution)
css string Optional Any stylings for widget contents
Example
- type: embed
  options:
    scriptSrc: https://cdn.speedcheck.org/basic/scbjs.min.js
    html: | 
      <div id="sc-container">
      <div id="sc-branding" class="sc-bb">
      <a target="_blank" href="https://www.speedcheck.org/">
      <img src="https://cdn.speedcheck.org/branding/speedcheck-logo-18.png" alt="Speedcheck"/>
      </a>
      </div>
      </div>

Or

- type: embed
    options:
      css: '.coinmarketcap-currency-widget { color: var(--widget-text-color); }'
      html: '<div class="coinmarketcap-currency-widget" data-currencyid="1" data-base="USD" data-secondary="" data-ticker="true" data-rank="true" data-marketcap="true" data-volume="true" data-statsticker="true" data-stats="USD"></div>'
      scriptSrc: 'https://files.coinmarketcap.com/static/widget/currency.js'

API Response

Directly output plain-text response from any API-enabled service.

// Coming soon...

Prometheus Data

Display data from any service with a Prometheus exporter.

// Coming soon...

Data Feed

Show live data from an RSS-enabled service. The only required parameter is rssUrl, which is the URL to the ATOM feed. See RSS Widget for full list of available options.

Example
- type: rss-feed
  options:
    rssUrl: https://notes.aliciasykes.com/feed

Usage & Customizations

Widget Usage Guide

Like items, widgets are placed under sections. You may have one or more widgets per section.

In your YAML config file, this will look something like:

sections:
- name: Today
  icon: far fa-calendar-day
  widgets:
  - type: clock
    options:
      format: en-GB
  - type: weather
    options:
      apiKey: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      city: London
      units: metric

In this example, there is a single section, named "Today", using a Calendar icon from Font-Awesome. It has 2 widgets, a clock and the current weather.

Continuous Updates

By default, a widget which displays dynamic data from an external source, will only fetch results on page load. If you would like to keep data updated at all times, you can enable Continuous Updates. This is done by setting a time value in the updateInterval field.

The value of updateInterval is optional, and is specified and seconds. It must be more than 10 and less than 7200.

For example, the following widget displaying stats from Pi-Hole will update ever 20 seconds.

widgets:
- type: pi-hole-stats
  updateInterval: 20
  options:
    hostname: http://192.168.130.2

Note that if you have many widgets, and set them to continuously update frequently, you will notice a hit to performance. A widget that relies on data from an external API, will also consume your usage quota faster, if set to keep updating.

Widget Styling

Like elsewhere in Dashy, all colours can be easily modified with CSS variables.

Widgets use the following color variables, which can be overridden if desired:

  • --widget-text-color - Text color, defaults to --primary
  • --widget-background-color - Background color, defaults to --background-darker
  • --widget-accent-color - Accent color, defaults to --background

For more info on how to apply custom variables, see the Theming Docs

Proxying Requests

If a widget fails to make a data request, and the console shows a CORS error, this means the server is blocking client-side requests.

Dashy has a built-in CORS proxy (services/cors-proxy.js), which will be used automatically by some widgets, or can be forced to use by other by setting the useProxy option.

For example:

widgets:
- type: pi-hole-stats
  useProxy: true
  options:
    hostname: http://pi-hole.local

Alternativley, and more securley, you can set the auth headers on your service to accept requests from Dashy. For example:

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://location-of-dashy/
Vary: Origin

Language Translations

Since most of the content displayed within widgets is fetched from an external API, unless that API supports multiple languages, translating dynamic content is not possible.

However, any hard-coded content is translatable, and all dates and times will display in your local format.

For more info about multi-language support, see the Internationalization Docs.

Widget UI Options

Widgets can be opened in full-page view, by clicking the Arrow icon (top-right). The URL in your address bar will also update, and visiting that web address will take you straight to the selected widget.

You can reload the data of any widget, by clicking the Refresh Data icon (also in top-right). This will only affect the widget where the action was triggered from.

All config options that can be applied to sections, can also be applied to widget sections. For example, to make a widget span multiple columns, set displayData.cols: 2 within the parent section. You can collapse a widget (by clicking the section title), and collapse state will be saved locally.

Widgets cannot currently be edited through the UI. This feature is in development, and will be released soon. In the meantime, you can either use the JSON config editor, or use VS Code or SSH into your box to edit the conf.yml file directly.

Build your own Widget

Widgets are built in a modular fashion, making it easy for anyone to create their own custom components.

For a full tutorial on creating your own widget, you can follow this guide, or take a look at here for a code example.

Alternatively, for displaying simple data, you could also just use the either the iframe, embed, Data Feed or API response widgets.

Requesting a Widget

Suggestions for widget ideas are welcome. But there is no guarantee that I will build your widget idea.

You can suggest a widget here, please star the repo before submitting a ticket.

Please only request widgets for services that:

  • Have a publicly accessible API
  • Are CORS and HTTPS enabled
  • Are free to use, or have a free plan
  • Allow for use in their Terms of Service
  • Would be useful for other users

For services that are not officially supported, it is likely still possible to display data using either the iframe, embed or API response widgets. For more advanced features, like charts and action buttons, you could also build your own widget, using this tutorial, it's fairly straight forward, and you can use an existing widget (or this example) as a template.