It’s time for a new HomeLab Dashboard // Homepage

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In this video, I will introduce you to my new HomeLab Dashboard called Homepage. It is a customizable application dashboard that supports over 100 service integrations, making it easy to monitor all your self-hosted apps like Proxmox, TrueNAS, Portainer, and more. With Homepage, you can easily access critical information and applications without having to remember IP addresses or hostnames. I will walk you through the installation and setup process, so get ready to see how this amazing tool can improve your HomeLab experience.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:39 Install Homepage
07:13 How I’m using Homepage
10:23 Configure Homepage
15:11 Configure Service Integrations
18:16 Monitoring ping, web, and docker
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[@christianlempa]

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[@phelpsio]

Hey Christian, thanks so much for covering the project, I'm so happy you enjoy it. This will be a wonderful resource for new homepage users!

[@christianlempa]

Thanks for watching :D

[@bnassib]

It was *the* push I needed to finally install it! I’ve been thinking about it for a while. Eventually it would be nice to have some back office to “add” services and bookmarks too. Maybe even automatically add widgets relying on the service’s name. That being said once everything is set up it looks and feels great

[@phelpsio]

A GUI is part of our funding goal, but people don't seem very interested in supporting the project that way.@@bnassib

[@oscarcharliezulu]

It looks amazing - exactly what i’ve been looking for!

[@romayojr]

i absolutely love homepage - i've used and tried many others but homepage is my absolute favorite because of the customizations it offers via the config file. well done on this video!

[@christianlempa]

Yes, it's amazing ;)

[@wolfisraging]

You're the man of aesthetics for sure.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks :D

[@jacobcoulter3705]

I have been running Homepage for a few months and love it. The explanation of how to avoid clear text passwords really helped me so I can expand some widgets that I wasn't willing to use before! Thanks!

[@christianlempa]

Great to hear! :D

[@cyberjohn44]

Great video. Been using it for 5 months now replacing Heimdall. Love the level of customization.

[@christianlempa]

Glad you like it!

[@drbyte2009]

I'am running homepage for more than a year now, i love it !! (came from Heimdall)

[@TominoNoxo]

I already have Heimdall, but HomePage looks greater :)

[@christianlempa]

Cool!

[@bluesquadron593]

Same grey. Took some time to get used to the extra information Homepage can offer, but after that it's a no brainer

[@drbyte2009]

@@christianlempa I deploy all my containers in a stack in portainer. Is there an easy way so you can use environment variables then? (for password and api token)

[@robertroygaard902]

i love the new style of your video/setup ... great work - keep on going!!!

[@christianlempa]

Thank you bro, I'll do!

[@mt_kegan512]

I've been LOVING homepage!

[@christianlempa]

+1

[@BWphile]

Running it now for half a year, really love it !!! Swapped it for Heimdall ;-)

[@dukeseb]

I did the same

[@ShoruKen]

I like how easy it is to add/edit an item directly from the Heimdall web page without editing a config/yaml file. I can't switch to another dashboard without this feature. Everything else looks great!

[@dukeseb]

@@ShoruKenI agree on some levels like heimdall would be ok for a start page for my wife…. But really it’s more of a visual bookmarks menu. This is a little more usable… And honestly you don’t need to go into the yaml files all that often to add stuff once you configure it. Usually the only tank I go into regularly is the bookmarks one and that doesn’t take much time

[@christianlempa]

Cool! Love it, too :D

[@jameschavez3637]

been using homepage the last few months and love it

[@christianlempa]

Awesome, me too!

[@chrissshan]

just implemented this with your help, loving it thanks so much!

[@christianlempa]

Fantastic! Glad it helped :)

[@jfauger]

to add services you can also define directly with labels on docker-compose file of the service you want monitor . well explained in the documentation.

[@christianlempa]

Thx for sharing

[@Fishyfish2752]

Was Waiting for this one! Thank You!

[@christianlempa]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@TominoNoxo]

😍 love your videos Christian. every time you give some awesome feature

[@christianlempa]

Thank you :D

[@mrn0b0dy22]

THIS is exactly what I was looking 4! 🙏🙏

[@christianlempa]

Awesome! Glad it helped :)

[@jonathanchevallier7046]

Thank you for this tour of this great tool. I'll test it ;-)

[@christianlempa]

Thanks for watching bro

[@nightmarenova6748]

Homepage truly is my number one terminal! I used many before it like Heimdall , Homaar and etc but as soon as i installed Homepage, even tho it looked "intimidating", its really drop dead simpple and there are so many widgets and examples online that you can just copy and paste if you so choose, you just have to know what you are copying lol!

[@christianlempa]

Yeah it's amazing!

[@Jan12700]

Perfect timing, I use Homarr and aren't happy with it, because of not working integrations. I wanted to switch to a other HomeLab Dashbored for some time now, and now I can try Homepage.

[@christianlempa]

Awesome!

[@ertlart3921]

get it! it's awesome. Just have in mind, if your Homepage is publicly accessible, you should not use internal ip adresses for pings, since they expose if you inspect the website.

[@GlennPerdicaro]

HI! I had a lot of fun thanks to your guide! A thousand thanks!!! ;)

[@christianlempa]

Glad you enjoyed it ;)

[@JoaoPacheco]

Congrats, great project 😎

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! 👍

[@SaPheiros]

This is insane. I'm coverring up all my project server on this tonight !

[@christianlempa]

Nice!

[@ThatNateGuy]

If nothing else, your videos really add gilding to your résumé/CV!

[@craigw4644]

Liking Homepage, installed it a few weeks ago.

[@christianlempa]

Cool

[@SergeyBerengard]

Yay!! Best dashboard ever

[@christianlempa]

+1

[@davidclark9173]

i love this program! you did a great video. i myself am still trying to figure out the custom widgets after 6 months of use. if you figure it out please do a short snippit on how to do it. thank you you are great!

[@christianlempa]

That's a great idea!

[@humphrey4930]

Wow I love this!

[@christianlempa]

Thx!

[@reloaded73]

Gud så komplicerat

[@ertlart3921]

Hey Christian, i used to have Homepage before i purged my complete homelab for a switch from DockerCluster to Kubernetes. How did you solve the problem, that you expose your internal IP adresses with the pings set up?

[@ws_stelzi79]

I put versions for container in the .env file and in the compose file I put `container:${version:latest}`. This uses the defined version from the .env file. If that isn't set it uses the `latest` tag. Also you can use labels on Docker containers and it "magically" pulls information from these containers.

[@christianlempa]

Cool, I've also recently started to use env variable interpolation, maybe I'll update some of my boiler plates as well.

[@ClaudeAlexandreRochatProfile]

Great as always take care

[@christianlempa]

Thanks, you too!

[@FTLN]

Following along, this looks great :) I wonder if we can have intel-gpu-top widget next to CPU usage at the top ?

[@chyldstudios]

You should include links to all resources used in the description. So we don't have to google each one.

[@christianlempa]

Which one are you missing?

[@restauradorcaseiro]

Or maybe you could just take a look at the homelab git repo... You could build even a Falcon 9 rocket from there ❤❤

[@optical_ideas]

I started with heimdall, then homer. Both are still great, but homepage takes it to the next level

[@christianlempa]

Absolutely!

[@yungabilify]

Great recommendation!

[@christianlempa]

Thx

[@brianlovelace]

It's definitely cool, but I'm really in love with Homarr, even though I needed to set it up manually... vs how TrueCharts allow Homepage to be set up semi-automatically

[@shabadabadoo4326]

Silly question.... assuming I'm running homepage in an LXC under proxmox.... would the cpu/mem/disk stats be relative to the LXC, or the parent host? Part of this is perhaps not understanding how applications work in LXC, but am very curious.

[@StanyCarteny]

Great work!!!

[@christianlempa]

Thx mate

[@StanyCarteny]

@@christianlempa Great video, but I can't implement .env :(

[@sTaNdirt88]

Hey Christian, also using Homepadge for a while. Could you please make a video, where you can show, how to configure docker-socket-proxy on a different host to get the information with homepage services? For example I have installed Paperless on my QNAP NAS in a docker container and portainer-agent installed. My raspberry pi has potainer, homepadge, grafana and different other containers installed and I would like to use the service widget for paperless to thea the container status as well. I also have a second raspberry pi with pi-hole, nginx and wireguard installed and also would like to integrate this containers with the services in homepage. But here you have to use docker-socket-proxy I guess to receive information from the docker-sockets on remote host. Would be asume to see another great video. Thanks a lot!

[@billybanana]

Thanks for the info re username and password variables. I was concerned about having those in clear text in the yaml files.

[@christianlempa]

Glad I could help!

[@milicsantiago]

Thanks a lot

[@christianlempa]

Most welcome

[@nikonratm]

Awesome video thanks! I’m a big fan of homepage, have you checked out the quick launch feature? It’s dope!

[@christianlempa]

Not yet! But I'll do thanks!

[@florianwilk7403]

Nice! Is there a connection to Identity Providers such as Keycloak or Authentic. Something like OAuth 2.0 or OpenID connect?

[@christianlempa]

Not directly, but you can watch my authentik video how to protect any web apps with traefik

[@user-bh9vf2zu1r]

Cool

[@lairtonmendes2289]

Really Chris? Why you dont post this on last week? hahaha I spend all my weekend programing a homepage like this, but doing all by my self, all monitiring propxmox, mikrotik and etc hahaha Thank you broo you saved my next weekend.

[@christianlempa]

Haha what a timing :D

[@crazywolf13]

Looks awesome 🎉 Definitely have to check it out. What do you think of Dashy?

[@christianlempa]

Yeah it's amazing! I don't like the design of dashy, homepage seems to be more "my thing" :D

[@mykyar9142]

Oh, great new dashboard! Definitely, it is better than Dashy to me.

[@christianlempa]

100% agree

[@jwspock1690]

Top ! Danke....

[@christianlempa]

Kein Ding gerne ;)

[@PSYCHOPATHiO]

I have not given any dash attention, but this is good, VERY GOOD :) altohugh i wish it has a login page with a user and pass and auth.

[@christianlempa]

Thanks :D

[@hamidrazavi1400]

Thanks Christian for your awsome channel, I'm a big fan. I like your shell. please tell it's name and what OS you use?

[@christianlempa]

Thanks! I've made a video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJfKmIdrmtN5atEsi=3VoaY9IdilDKBpKX

[@wilsonlee5590]

can this install to Linux server?

[@niels5622]

Damn, this VSC layout. How have you done it, that glassy look? An extension for a background or is it a theme? 😊

[@christianlempa]

It's called "background", but honestly, it's a bit buggy so I don't use it anymore :D

[@Br4mVAL]

really nice video!

[@christianlempa]

thx bro

[@BaMb1N079]

can I use OIDC or SAML authentication with this application? looks rather useful for enterprise use as well....

[@christianlempa]

no, keep in mind it's a hobby project :)

[@BaMb1N079]

@@christianlempa looks interesting nonetheless!

[@736939]

How did you added icons to services groups? And why the grafana shows API error I used login and password with the same link, should I use specific Grafanas dashboard link for it? Thankt you.

[@christianlempa]

You have to configure it in the layout settings, check out my configs on git

[@736939]

@@christianlempa Thank you very much, it would be amazing if you show how to do create custom widgets )

[@FatalSkeptic]

Hi, I am using gethomepage as a chart in TrueNAS Scale and wanted to figure out how to setup the .env file. I saw that you added an {{ }} in the container and then rebooted the container and created an .env file. So my question is that do I have to create a new ENV entry for the container and then add it to the .env file that I create 1 level up from where the .yaml files are? Sorry n00b here, just tinkering around.

[@christianlempa]

You have to add those env variables in the compose file as well, just lie I've shown in the tutorial. Maybe check out the docker docs about env variables, it should be described there.

[@danielberglv259]

Was using Heimdall, but switched to Homepage a few month ago as I was getting to many services. Heimdall is great, but it does not scale well.

[@christianlempa]

Cool!

[@Lunolux]

nice video, why choose only use them all xD i use flame, dashy, and homarr as main... homepage look great for the integration but dont use it very much

[@christianlempa]

Haha true

[@mme1004]

which terminal are you using on mac?

[@christianlempa]

Warp

[@moetocafe]

is it better to use podman?

[@christianlempa]

What do you mean by that?

[@moetocafe]

@@christianlempa are there any benefits of using podman vs docker, in terms of stability esp. under load, security, etc. I'm asking, because I want to make something with Homepage, but on a server, not in local.

[@pddekock]

Would love a video on Wazuh

[@christianlempa]

Maybe in the second half of this year, need to finish some projects first.

[@skipper8]

I like dashy but getting it to look good is hard, definitively prefer that minimalistic look

[@christianlempa]

Can totally understand it, I don't the design of dashy tbh

[@Jugeenias]

Da lacht er bei Unraid. Mich würde das Unraid Video echt total interessieren. Mach mal gern eins. Vor allem der Vergleich zu Docker :-) PS: Coole Videos machst du

[@christianlempa]

Vielen Dank :D ja mal schauen, wann ich dafür Zeit habe, vielleicht irgendwann um den Sommer rum.

[@RoxioCZE]

how did u deal with permissions in vscode ssh? is your user root?

[@christianlempa]

I'm not using the root user, but a user with root privileges, so technically yes :D

[@RoxioCZE]

@@christianlempa what are the security implications of that? I suppose it’s fine in a homelab environment but would that be also be a good practice in production? Thanks

[@f0ssig]

It's hard to read the text in your vscode

[@kritikusi-666]

sexy UI. I like it.

[@christianlempa]

Me 2 :D

[@umiseaz]

I still using homer...

[@christianlempa]

That's fine bro :D

[@oelsardine9422]

9:17 "I don't know where my wife is"

[@christianlempa]

:D

[@freestudymusic550]

Light mode lol 😂

[@Yan-qf1mq]

promo sm 🏃

[@itsamemarkus]

12:22 totally blaming you for this

[@christianlempa]

:D

[@BeardedLearza]

dark mode is king like mode sucks.....lol

[@christianlempa]

haha :D

[@Fastmancz_]

Thanks for for your tip.

[@christianlempa]

You're welcome ;)

[@kjakobsen]

Brilliant name, that will be easy to find on Google. ;-)

[@christianlempa]

Haha :D