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Apps & tools

ORBITAL

Home monitoring rebuilt as a five-dashboard mission control. Opening it feels like sitting at a console; running it costs almost nothing.

Status
Local buildnever public
When
Jul 2026
Category
Apps & tools
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Home network monitoring dressed as a mission control. Five dashboards, one verdict on the home screen, generated from code so they never drift.

BRIDGE. One verdict, four live nav tiles, a subsystem LED wall.
BRIDGE. One verdict, four live nav tiles, a subsystem LED wall.
REACTOR.
REACTOR.

Stack

Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf on Windows. Dashboards generated from one Node build script, never hand-edited. Custom collectors for hardware sensors, device census, and sky data.

Highlights

  • BRIDGE. One verdict, four live nav tiles, and a subsystem LED wall as the home screen.
  • The shell is Grafana itself, not an always-on app, because memory was the measured blocker.
  • Dashboards are generated; UI editing is drift, and it had left the old board eight times larger than its source.