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Orbitdash

A homelab dashboard with live CPU, memory, and disk stats right next to my service links, and you edit all of it from the browser.

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I used Homer and then Homarr as the start page for my homelab. Both are basically a list of links, and both keep that list in a YAML file. Adding a service meant opening the file, editing it, and redeploying, which is a weird amount of work just to add one URL.

Orbitdash is the dashboard I actually wanted to look at every day. The links are stored in a SQLite database, and you add and edit them right in the browser. Live CPU, memory, and disk stats are on the same page, so I don't keep a Grafana tab open anymore just to see if the box is busy.

Orbitdash showing service links grouped by category, with CPU, RAM, and disk stats and a metrics chart below

Day to day

Each service gets an icon, a name, a short description, and a category. You can upload a PNG or SVG for the icon, or paste a URL and Orbitdash will grab it. You can drag categories to reorder them in settings and click to collapse them, and your browser remembers which ones are collapsed. There's a search box for when the list gets long, and you can switch between a 3, 4, or 5 column grid depending on your screen.

The metrics panel shows the last 30 seconds as a chart, with tabs for CPU, RAM, and disk.

Running it

It's one container with one volume:

yaml
services:
  orbitdash:
    image: ghcr.io/chriscorbell/orbitdash:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "7770:3000"
    volumes:
      - ./orbitdash-data:/data

It runs as uid 1000, so if Docker creates the folder as root, run chown -R 1000:1000 ./orbitdash-data once.

The database and uploaded icons are all stored in that volume, so backing up is just stopping it and copying one folder. Images are built for x86_64 and aarch64. Every push to main gets its own tag alongside latest, and releases get version tags like v0.2.0, if you want to pin one.

It's built with TypeScript, React, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Hono, Bun, and SQLite. My favorite part is that I haven't had to open a config file since.