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Self-Hosting Dashy: Feature-Rich Application Dashboard

Dashy is a highly customizable self-hosted dashboard. Status checks, widgets, themes, and multi-page layouts for your homelab.

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What Is Dashy?


Dashy is a highly customizable application dashboard. It's more feature-rich than Homer but still configured via YAML.


Features


Dashboard

  • Multi-page layouts
  • Sections with custom arrangement
  • Item tiles with icons and descriptions
  • Status indicators (health checks)
  • Collapsible sections

    • Widgets

  • System info (CPU, RAM, disk)
  • Weather
  • Stock prices
  • RSS feeds
  • GitHub activity
  • Pi-hole stats
  • Custom iframe widgets

    • Customization

  • 50+ built-in themes
  • Custom CSS
  • Custom layout options
  • Icon packs (Font Awesome, Material, Simple Icons)
  • Light/dark mode

    • Other

  • YAML configuration
  • Web-based config editor
  • Authentication (Keycloak, Authentik)
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Multi-language
  • PWA support

    • Dashy vs Homer vs Homarr


  • Dashy: Most customizable, widgets, themes
  • Homer: Simplest, lightest
  • Homarr: Docker integration, interactive widgets

    • Deployment


    Deploy on TinyPod. Resources: 1 CPU, 128 MB RAM.


    Dashy is for dashboard enthusiasts who want every pixel customized. If you want a dashboard that looks exactly how you imagine it, Dashy delivers.