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How do you manage your home server dashboards ? I hate editing my homer config file

I use homer as a fancy bookmark manager for my home server. But I hate updating the config file every time I add a new service. Are there any dashboards that allow you to update items with an API/using docker labels like Traefik?

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benphelps/homepage supports docker label
- Thanks!, this homepage is a proper dashboard compared to homer.
- the only annoying thing is that is not possible to spin more than one homepages at the same time.
  
  so i have one homarr and one homepage
  
  Hi,
  
  I’m here today to talk to you about our lord and saviour, Docker.
  
  Do you have a moment to talk about containers?
  
  I have two homepages, one for local and the other for remote (behind nginx and my authentication software). I also have one on a vm i use for testing before deployment. They are different docker containers but don't see why you couldn't have separate ones given they are just websites.
I use dashy since it's super easy to update (can update and save config from the webpage). If you want automatic adding though, flame can autoadd services if you put a couple lines of config in each docker compose
- Thank you!!. Flame was exactly what I was looking for.
I'm using organizr, it embeds your apps in tabs/iframes and allows you to configure them in the UI.
- Thanks this looks really nice. LINK to demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1rUbdSEM34
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=k1rUbdSEM34
  
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
- is there an advantage to have apps embedded as iframe? as opposed to opening the url in a new tab?
  
  like forwarding auth?
  
  no, its personal preference
- It’s pretty good once you wrap your head around what it’s doing. Took me a little while to figure out. It also allows custom HTML embedding.
Try homarr, I switched to it from homer and it's so much better. Much more easily configurable

https://homarr.dev/
Everything I tried was annoying to use and didn't do what I wanted for some reason, so I just made my own. This took some time, but not as much as I expected.

I copy and pasted a GitHub Action from the official docs which generates a Docker image and publishes it to GitHub Packages.

On the server, I use Portainer's "Stacks" (which are just Docker Compose files) for all programs and games, so I just added a new stack which uses my image from GitHub.

The server also has Watchtower installed on it (inside a container of course), which updates all containers, including the dashboard.

Portainer and Watchtower both share the same Docker configuration, so I only need to configure my GitHub access token in one place (e.g., Portainer's UI).
I use heimdall personally. It’s simplicity is key for me.
I didn’t need anything too fancy, and I’m lazy, so I have Chat GPT generate my landing page.

And when the customer (me) has a new request, the project manager (also me) just has to ask for the updates. Sometimes my direct report gets confused, but we can usually clear it up, in English — no code — fo free.

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