Homer Dashboard - Open Source, Self Hosted, Beautiful Shortcuts to all your sites and services.

[@jamesmax8960]

I want to just personally from my heart thank you so much for the work you do.. there are so many things i have learnt from your channel. thank you so much..

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Absolutely my pleasure!

[@happysprollie]

Thanks for this. I didn't know such things existed. Now I've got it up and running on a Raspberry Pi 4 and it's working a treat.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad it helped you out!

[@MadMike78]

Im not good at docker lol. I did the install three times with three different videso and it never opens. I even check the folder and its empty. Not sure what im doing wrong. Your instructions are clear as day.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Maybe try Dashy or Homepage. They are much more up to date videos than my Homer video. They are really great dashboards too. Homepage: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYbbaK2ceKiAZ6Msi=B_RLP88JH6_RWFrV Dashy: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6S0hq2rqayUqKMsi=Vm7kFkqXGAPDxAOk

[@nathanielmcbride2645]

This was great! Really looking forward to the follow up videos. I've tried Heimdall and liked it, but homer seems to address several of my complaints. I'll definitely be giving it a try.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Excellent. I’m really enjoying it so far. Made it my home page, and it’s working great!

[@RiseUpFightForRight]

Where would be a good place to download the PNGs??? I noticed on your other video's you have really good icons. But it seems like every free png website is suspicious.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You can get them from this github project github.com/walkxcode/dashboard-icons

[@anwar.shamim]

Love this video & contents keep going- need more video about

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank, I'll see what I can do.

[@joachimdeussen]

Just spend 4 hours setting it up. Just to learn that it did not integrate cors headers since 2018, and thus, most of the services will not run. Use a proxy, they say, but how many different apps should i use to just get an onine/offline state. Today, it is not worth the time anymore without some serious updates.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I'm sorry friend. Didn't realize the Cors thing was such an issue. But I can recommend Homepage and Dashy as 2 really great up to date systems that should do just what you need, and i have videos on both of them.

[@rasbe6863]

This an answer to a problem I had. I wanted a place to display my Unraid apps on a page. This is it Thank you so much

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad it helped. Check out Heimdall and Dashy as well, if you feel like Homer isn't quite what you want.

[@michaelcooper5490]

Hello Brian I am free to do contract work for some folks, if you don't mind me me offering that. Great Job on this video again.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Not a problem at all.

[@debnathmriganka2010]

Sir can you help me one thing. I install nxinx proxy manger in portainer, but i went to install using 80,81 and 443 port this is not install but when i change it 40080, 40081 and 40443 then it is install and run nginx but after that when i add host this is not redirect, I dont know frome where i can change.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You can change the ports for NPM to use, but if you do, then apps calling your site won't reach the proxy manager, because it's listening on the wrong ports. By default web urls use 80 or 443. If you change NPM to listen to 40080, then you have to add that port specifically to the end of the url like billsburger.com:40080 or bobsfrogs.org:80443 etc.

[@theshazman]

Man I am struggling with YAML formatting. I finally got it to accept my config file and I am having an impossible time getting the PiHole service to work. I just wish there was better documentation. I dont know whether I need to install these services, how to do that, etc. I just want the metadata from PiHole to show up on the tile itself. That was my whole reasoning for installing it. I can make generic tiles that take me to a specific URL but I wanted the smart features that you can see on the tile level...

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Depending on how you're trying to connect to some of these services, and I recall pihole being one of them, the use of SSL may cause issues. In other words Pihole is expecting an SSL connection, but on a LAN it's not being accessed that way be default. See if you can search around for that a bit. I know I read it somewhere way back when I made this video.

[@theshazman]

@@AwesomeOpenSource thanks for the tip! Will look into that route and report back.

[@allandresner]

Thank you so much

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

[@itady74]

Please I need to know what should I do to start working with self-hosted apps and services? Should I have a server at my home or could i start with something smaller?

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I would highly recommend a Raspberry PI 4 - if you can manage to get the 4 GB version, that will actually do a lot of really cool stuff. If you're looking to go a little bigger, you can start with a used laptop. Get a Core i5 from 6 years back, put 12 or 16 GB RAM in it, and a 256 GB SSD, put linux on it, and run docker apps. You'll be amazed at all of the things you can run on a system like that.

[@grisemarster6012]

how do you change the group icons, like the cloud, seems diffrent

[@meandthemrs896]

Your video is really clear but I have the following issue no matter how I try and install homer - Assets directory not writable. Check assets directory permissions & docker user or skip default assets install by setting the INIT_ASSETS env var to 0

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

did you follow my guide online linked as Show Notes? If so, make sure you put the assets folder in a folder where your user is the owner of the folder.

[@meandthemrs896]

@@AwesomeOpenSource I did and I did - I have followed a few guides and always the same issue. I added user 0.0 to the yml file to get it working but I know this is wrong. Other containers install fine its just homer ? Thanks for responding

[@magicmanj32]

Awesome Video, great job

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Thank you.

[@paullees6687]

this video needed a small aside on setting up networking for a docker container but otherwise great video thanks dude

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad it helped

[@im2geek4you]

Heimdall is also a good alternative. Easier to config.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

It looks like it. I started with Homer, but intend to cover Heimdall. Oranizrr and some others as well.

[@kleash]

I don't understand why a basic dashboard is so much work lol.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

A little effort, and you can really stretch the legs of a good dashboard.

[@jrtech3165]

Thank you

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

My pleasure.

[@Raymond6494]

Good vib thanks

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you like it.

[@kevinhughes9801]

Good stuff thanks

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@chris0628]

Did the definition of Dashboard change recently? A dashboard should have information graphical and numerical or text…. This is just a screen with shortcuts 😒

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

You can use some of the applications APIs to pull data onto the shortcuts, so it is a dashboard as well as a startscreen.

[@chris0628]

@@AwesomeOpenSource That would be more important than how to just add shortcuts

[@zadekeys2194]

I don't understand such projects. Why waste time making this m implementing it, if you can just use a bookmark? How many seconds do you spend looking at this m bookmarks... Seems like solving a problem that doesn't exist.

[@AwesomeOpenSource]

I thought the same way, but having this as my start page, i can very quickly jump to my most important pages. there are plenty of options that allow this. also, Home, heimdall, Organizr, Dashmachine all have other capabilities to see what the state of a server is, not just a link to try to get to a page on the server. I also have 100s, if not 1000s of book marks for various purposes, so digging into these and adding another folder in the bookmarks bar, is also just another step I have to take. All in all, I think it's a great start page for me. If bookmarks work better for you, then don't fix what ain't broke. Best.

[@zadekeys2194]

@@AwesomeOpenSource fair point. I have my browser set to open x tabs when it starts & the rest is stores in bookmarked folders, with the NB links in my bookmark bar.