General Q&A Thread: Quick Questions

[Lissy93]

If you've got a quick question about setting up, configuring or using Dashy, then feel free to ask below, and either myself or another user will try and find a solution for you :)

[DylanBeMe]

Hey Lissy,

The dashboard is lovely. I really enjoy using it for school and other projects. I do think it's missing a nice-to-have... It can't successfully my game servers like minecraft and valheim, do you think it's possible to add this or is this a dumb request?

[DylanBeMe]

I guess that that's the best solution for now. Is this ever going to be added to Dashy btw? Thanks for all the help.

[Lissy93]

Now that I know it would be useful, I will add it to the todo list :)
I'll update you here once it's implemented, but it might not be for a few weeks as I have a lot on at the moment

[DylanBeMe]

Thank you very much! <3

[Lissy93]

I did try and implement a ping-only option for status checks, in #233 - Although it does work, the ping functionality requires Python at the moment, and so I was hesitant to merge this in, as I don't want to make the Docker image any bigger. In the future I want to re-write the endpoints in Go, and this will make having a ping-only status check really easy, and I will come back to this, and update you here when it's done (but I don't think it'll be for a while).

[DylanBeMe]

That's fine, I'm already thankful that you worked on it so quickly! I have patience, you do you in the meantime

[DylanBeMe]

Hey Lissy!
Me again. I saw there was an update (to 1.8.2) but I can't find a changelog for this and the previous (1.8.1) version anywhere. Also the changelogs on your website are heavily outdated (https://dashy.to/docs/changelog). I know these aren't full releases, but I think it'd still be nice to know what has been changed before updating.

[Lissy93]

Heya, here's the changelog :)

I need to write a script to automate the syncronisation of the website with the docs in the repo, sorry about that!

Edit: The website's changelog is now updated :)

[DylanBeMe]

Thanks a bunch! Have a nice day :)

[cwesterfield]

This seems minor, but I'm not smart enough with code to find a possible solution.

Can categories be stacked in a row if they are small enough?

[Lissy93]

Heya @cwesterfield - Thanks for your question.

This happens because by default sections are positioned on an equal CSS grid. You should be able to fix this by using the rows and cols attributes. Both properties are defined under displayData of a given section, and will default to 1.

• cols will specify the number of columns a given section should span horizontally, i.e width (uses grid-column-start: span [X])
• rows will specify the number of rows a given section should span vertically, i.e height (uses grid-row-start: span [X] under the hood)

sections:
- name: Networking
  icon: fas fa-network-wired
  displayData:
    rows: 2
  items:
   ...

[Lissy93]

Here's a more visual example, taken from #7

[villageheader]

Great example

[DylanBeMe]

Heya Lissy,

It's me again.. It would seem that the favicon api is being dum, it isn't giving me any pictures whatsoever. Do you think you can implement a failsafe and load from a different favicon api if the first one doesn't work? I'm otherwise loving the updates you've brought so far.

[Lissy93]

Wow that icon is old!!

[Lissy93]

Thanks for sharing the DuckDuckGo API, I hadn't come across it before :) I think it works the same as the Google one, but I will add support for it in a future PR, since DDG has benefits over Google in terms of privacy, and I'll look into those other APIs.

It's hard to find a favicon API which:

1. Has almost all websites supported
2. Returns images in a decent resolution (64x64)
3. Doesn't block clients who make too many requests / are using a VPN

Looks like some of the icons returned by DDG are smaller, and some are missing, so it won't be a good candidate for the default API, but I will add it as an optional one :)

[UrekD]

Hmm yeah it seems some sites only provide 16x16 icons. Best switching to local assets myself. I found a nice repo with some icons, though owner seems inactive.

[Lissy93]

I forgot to say, but you can also use different favicon API's for different items, just set icon: favicon-[api], e.g. favicon-clearbit

That repo looks good, here's a more up-to-date version: https://github.com/WalkxCode/dashboard-icons
And these icons are all natively supported in Dashy, so you can just set for example: icon: hl-plex

There are some more options too, in the Icon Docs :)

[walkxcode]

;)

[lephtHanded]

awesomesauce project.
is there a way to link to a specific section?
I put all my work links in one section, and from the /home page i can right click and open section.
that changes the URL in the address bar to .../home/workSection
When I bookmark that section, and click on it, i get Cannot GET /home/workSection

[Lissy93]

Thanks for explaining it further and for the example :) I see the issue now, and there are two options to fix it:

Option 1 - Hash Mode

Set routing the mode to hash, for example:

appConfig:
  routingMode: hash

Option 2 - Fix in Web Server Config

In your NGINX config file, update the block to that pages always land on index, for example:

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}

You can find more info in the Management and Troubleshooting docs, but let me know if it doesn't make sense :)

[lephtHanded]

i took a look at the links you sent and i'd like to use hash mode... is that a docker-compose option?

[Lissy93]

Nope, put it in your config file/ conf.yml :)

[lephtHanded]

Science!

it works, thanks!

[Lissy93]

Yay :)

[KierenConnell]

Is it possible to reduce the width of the sidebars and have more than 8 columns?

Similar to my dodgy mockup below

The screen real estate exists ↓ - Just not sure how to utilise it

[Lissy93]

Definitely a valid request, especially now I've seen your screenshot.
Since several of you have requested it, I'll bump it up my todo list.

It's not that it's complicated, but rather the more UI options there are, there becomes exponentially more scenarios to include in the tests

Will let you know once something is implemented :)

[stuu3k]

I understand, thanks either way! 👍

Any tips to getting the page full width to work in the mean time, I added have...

customCss: '.item-group-container { max-width: 100%; }'

But it doesn't seem to make any difference, am I missing something?

Thanks

[Lissy93]

Yup, just set: .item-group-container { --col-count: 8 !important; max-width: 95% !important; }
:)

[stuu3k]

Ah yes that did it you true are a star thanks very much, I'll be sure to share a screenshot or two you can add to Demo Pages if you wish, but plenty of tweaking to do first I'll be back in touch! :)

Have a good one!

[Lissy93]

Yay 😀- Glad it's working, can't wait to see it!

[DylanBeMe]

Hey there Lissy, it's me again. I just updated from 1.9.2 to 1.9.5 and it seems my favicons are messed up. It just took the favicon of my netdata server and applied that to all other selfhosted servers, which it has never done before. Any way to fix this without setting a png file as icon?

Also happy new year :)

[Lissy93]

Sounds like a bug, but weird as I've not come across that- let me look into it
If you open the page in incognito or clear local browser cache, do you see the same result? And anything relevant i the browser console? Are you just using the default faviconApi, or a different one?

[DylanBeMe]

For me the default was allesedv, at least I think it is since I never changed the API.
In a new incognito tab it also happens and it also happens after I clear the entire page cache and cookies.

There's also nothing in the console.

I think I'll just start using the last option in the icon section; the one where it pulls the favicon.ico from a URL instead. I think that would work :D

[Lissy93]

That's really weird, really not sure what could be causing that, my only guess is that allesedv is caching the wrong icon. For the apps that aren't working, you set the icon to favicon-iconhorse (or any other favicon API), then this should (hopefully) fix it.
(And just to check, the favicon APIs only work for services that are hosted on the internet, any self-hosted app will just fallback to use local.)

P.s You have some great apps there! :)

[DylanBeMe]

Thank you for the help. What I did to fix it was just point Dashy to the favicon.ico URL, which means it should always work. This really makes my life easier.

These aren't the only apps I have, just one column ;)
And the best app of all is the one that shows them all in a neat way! Thank you for making something so awesome.

Happy new year! <3

[posta246]

Hi,
I'm looking for a dashboard that allows me to insert entries or add bookmarks etc via bash scripts, so when a new services is deployed, the related link is shown into the dashboard itself. Can it be done easily with dashy? How? Hope yes, dashy is a super cool dashboard!
thanks a lot!

[Lissy93]

Yup, this should be quite straightforward, since all the config is just a plain YAML file.

Although I'm away from home atm so not able to code up an example, but if you're competent with bash, you should have no trouble with this.

[lephtHanded]

copy link?
when you right click on an item, it gives you a number of options: Open In (new tab..) and Options (edit)
would it be possible to add copy link to the Options sub-menu?

since the copy link address.. option isn't there like on a regular page it would help when you just want to share a link.
(rather than editing and copying, or opening the page and copying the link)

[Lissy93]

Love the idea, I can deffo implement this :)

Am away at the moment, so won't be able to do until next week, but will update you when done.

[Lissy93]

Heya @lephtHanded - Just to let you know I've implemented this feature in #423
You can now right-click and select "Copy to Clipboard", or set an items default opening method to clipboard :)

[lephtHanded]

Awesome sauce!!!! Thank you so much 👍👍👍👍

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[DylanBeMe]

Heya Lissy!

There's an issue with the coronavirus widget, it displays the data on the wrong place. The total recovered should be the amount of people that died and vice versa. ;)

[Lissy93]

🤣 I was starting to get really worried about the number of deaths!!
Good spot, thanks for raising - I've fixed this in 5570cd2 of #451 :)

[DylanBeMe]

Thanks for the quick fix!

[Famku]

Hi Lissy,

Dashy is great!

How can I set the favicon for the page?

[Lissy93]

Heya @Famku
The favicon is read from public/favicon.ico, so replacing that icon with yours should work :)
If you're using Docker, then something like: -v /local/my-favicon.ico:/app/public/favicon.ico
If you've got an image file, you'll also need to convert it to an ICO, you can use a tool like favicon.io
Hope that helps :)

[Famku]

Thank you

[stancubed]

Sorry to bring up this older thread, but is there a reason why mapping this file wouldn't be picked up by Dashy? I can confirm that the file is mapped correctly in the container but Dashy is still pulling the original favicon for the Dashboard page (the rocket).

[hugalafutro]

Hi, I was wondering why some pages do not work in modal? I would love all of them would, but I guess it's some security concern or some such?

Examples:
home assistant, portainer, guacamole behind nginx-proxy-manager work great in modal
pi-hole local ip, luci openwrt router page local ip, nextcloud behind nginx-proxy-manager etc won't open in modal
sschwifty opens in modal, but throws an error which it throws when being accessed via http, regardless if using self signed cert or behind nginx-proxy-manager, or both.

[Lissy93]

So this would be blocked by CORS. It's a security measure of modern browsers, that prevents cross-site requests. It isn't something specific to Dashy, or that can me fixed by me.

You can fix it by setting the correct headers on each service. Usually the X-Frame-Options header, e.g. X-Frame-Options: ALLOW-FROM [uri-of-dashy]. More info can be found in Dashy's docs.

The easiest method for handling headers across all your services, is to use a reverse proxy, such as NGINX (+ NGINX Proxy Manager) or Traefik in Docker.

[hugalafutro]

@Lissy93 I discovered some useful info you could potentially add to the Troubleshooting as apparently allow-from is ignored by chrome and safari and you're supposed to use Content-Security-Policy. The underlying technobabble goes above my head, but I found the info here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30731290/how-to-set-x-frame-options-allow-from-in-nginx-correctly#37211901

I was able to make several services to work in modal by modifying their proxy host in nginx-proxy-manager, adding custom location pointing to / and setting it up like so:

So now I can open dashy via https and inside it open other services in modal as long as they go through nginx-proxy-manager which is fantastic and I'm quite happy with it as is.

Herein then also lies another of my esoteric issues, but that's probably just because how paranoid I am. I do not really like exposing the services to outside world via nginx proxy even if I use random 24 char string as address and the underlying service has it's own auth mechanism I feel just the act of exposing it to outside world is 100% more insecure as compared to it not being exposed at all. Instead what I do is I've got wg-easy running on local lan and wireguard app set up on each of my portable devices and when I want to use dashy (or anything from my home lan) I turn on the wireguard vpn and access dashy from http://192.168.1.xxx:yyyy address, and most dashy buttons are set up to point to local ip addresses..

In the situation outlined above, even if I add http://dashy.local.ip:local_port to the Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors, while the service now loads in modal, some functionality is crippled as webcrypt needs https connection. Am I correct in assuming I could make this work if I used selfsigned cert for dashy and accessed it from https://dashy.local.ip ?

Sorry for the wall of text.

[Lissy93]

Thanks, I will add this to the troubleshooting guide :) Sorry for the inaccurate info on my part, was replying from my phone.

Am I correct in assuming I could make this work if I used selfsigned cert for dashy and accessed it from https://dashy.local.ip ?

Yes, the browser's crypto API only works for sites from a "secure origin", but it only checks the protocol (https/ tls / ftps), so a self-signed cert is fine.

I've got a similar setup to you, my apps are only accessible from within my LAN, I access them remotely via Wireguard and just use DNS for custom domains. Although I haven't yet found a way to get a signed LetsEncrypt cert working for local services, and I'm not sure if it's even possible (if anyone knows different, please do share!).

[hugalafutro]

I don't believe getting valid cert for local domain is possible as you cannot prove ownership of the domain https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/ basically says make your own cert and add it to the system's trust store, which is what I do.

edit: turns out when serving dashy via https, now the services that run as http don't open in modal haha, I'll just leave it well enough alone on http and open the 2 or 3 services in new tab instead of modal. I guess it has to be all from same protocol to same protocol.

[posta246]

look at this reddit thread. It is descrived how easily have and manage a named lan domain, with https certificates. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/nuyu0d/description_explaination_checklist_about_my/

[chillje]

Hi I'am looking for a possibility to create a "more informations" pages for my items.
Let us say I have a "nextcloud" and "portainer" item. Is there a possibility to add a kind of "info-button" to these items, which leads me to further informations about it. Behind the info-button I would like to put a kind of sub-page, in which I put a short description of the service and possibly more info whether eg VPN and a login is required and such infos.

Thank you in advance :)

[meepmeep]

Hi !
New to dashy, it will replace my old "quick & dirty html page" soon.
I try to add some svg icons by downloading them locally (downloaded from the free pack of Font Awesome), but for an unknown reason, Dashy doesn't apply the nice color of the Item (red in the picture attached) :

Could I force the color of the icon ?

[Lissy93]

I think that's caused by the SVG rendering as an <img />
I do remember looking into something similar a while back, and I think it wasn't possible to render embedded icons as SVG without importing them as a file.
One thing you should be able to do, is open your SVG file, find the top most <path> element, and insert fill="#E81465"

[meepmeep]

Any idea / tool to easily convert my SVG to PNG (keeping them without any predefined colour ?)

[Lissy93]

If you don't have any predefined color, the icons will be black, as the use of currentColor is defined with the parent element's CSS, and fallbacks to #000000. But if you set color, then any online converter, like SvgToPng.com will work.

I guess you already know, but you can also use any icon from any of these providers, the color will work as expected, and you won't have to manually download each one.

[meepmeep]

Yes i know, but I also like to have things locally ;)

But indeed, providers are really easy to use .. I changed to mdi icons, lot of choice and easy color !

[CrazyWolf13]

Hi
I really love this Project and I hope @Lissy93 continues to make this project even better <3

Some things to note first, In the Documentation for Pi-Hole Widget it requires an APi-Key for all sorts of info, maybe it's worth adding the api_key on the missing ones like here: https://dashy.to/docs/widgets#pi-hole-stats .

And is there any way to move sections from the gui ?
And is it / will it be possible to move items/sections freely around the page, so one can make his own perfectly organized dashboard.

[Lissy93]

it requires an APi-Key for all sorts of info, maybe it's worth adding the api_key on the missing ones like here

Good spot, yeah the apiKey is missing there - I'll get that updated :)

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And is there any way to move sections from the gui ?

The easiest way is directly in the config file. I've had drag-n-drop on my todo list for almost a year, and I will come back to it, but it's harder to implement that I initially thought. If you don't want to open the YAML file, you can do this in the UI under Config --> Edit Config --> Tree, select Code, and then you can re-arrange the JSON (it's a bit of an annoying workaround)

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And is it / will it be possible to move items/sections freely around the page, so one can make his own perfectly organized dashboard.

If you're in Edit Mode, you can write-click on an item, and click Move, to move it to a different section. But with re-arranging again you'll need to do it from the YAML file, or try and use the JSON editor. There isn't yet drag and drop for this either.

[CrazyWolf13]

it requires an APi-Key for all sorts of info, maybe it's worth adding the api_key on the missing ones like here

Good spot, yeah the apiKey is missing there - I'll get that updated :)

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And is there any way to move sections from the gui ?

The easiest way is directly in the config file. I've had drag-n-drop on my todo list for almost a year, and I will come back to it, but it's harder to implement that I initially thought. If you don't want to open the YAML file, you can do this in the UI under Config --> Edit Config --> Tree, select Code, and then you can re-arrange the JSON (it's a bit of an annoying workaround)

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And is it / will it be possible to move items/sections freely around the page, so one can make his own perfectly organized dashboard.

If you're in Edit Mode, you can write-click on an item, and click Move, to move it to a different section. But with re-arranging again you'll need to do it from the YAML file, or try and use the JSON editor. There isn't yet drag and drop for this either.

Thank you a lot!

Tree-Mode, maybe this is helpful ;)

[igonzalezcl]

Hello!
First of all, congratulations for the beautiful project you are doing!
How can I do a status check on a service?, such as Google DNS 8.8.8.8.8.

Thank you a lot!

[qnlbnsl]

Hello! Great work on the project!! I have been fiddling with dashy for a bit now and I ran into this weird issue when trying to use the proxmox widget:

I have tried a few things like turning off the proxy (which, ofc never worked) and setting the URL to the public URL that i have. But after struggling with certificate issues and other networking stuff, i finally always end up with the BAD RESPONSE error

Error:

[ltheoret]

Hello! I have upgraded to Proxmox 8 and noticed that my InfluxDB queries no longer are inline with my Graphana dashboard.
Now I am trying to connect Dashy widget to Proxmox and it complains it cannot fetch data. Could the matrix in Proxmox 8 be different than 7.x?

[Nwhouse]

Hello. I am having a difficult time adding a widget to my dashy. Could you provide an updated process?
Many Thanks

[CrazyWolf13]

May you share some more information?
The developer currently has much in her private life and so this project is less active.

[Nwhouse]

That's completely understandable.
If I just had an example of adding a widget into the yml that would be great.

Thanks

[CrazyWolf13]

I highly advise you to read through the documentation, as it contains nearly everything. https://dashy.to/docs/
(https://dashy.to/docs/widgets)

[CrazyWolf13]

  - name: time
    icon: hl-clock
    displayData:
      sortBy: default
      rows: 1
      cols: 2
      collapsed: false
      hideForGuests: false
    widgets:
      - type: clock
        options:
          timeZone: Europe/Zurich
          format: gsw-CH
          customCityName: Switzerland
          hideDate: false

Example for a Clock Widget with the Swiss timezone, read through the docs to get the appropriate values for your timezone and other options.

[artemdanielov]

Hello everyone! I just started configuring and learning this tool and got a problem with Authentication (basic one). So i set it up, but its not doing anything, not asking me to log in. I tried from different devices and browsers. My settings:

  "appConfig": 
    "auth": 
      "users": 
          "user": "my login here",
          "hash": "my password hash here",
          "type": "admin"

[kt-alt]

Hi, I'm trying to set up a dashy devcontainer for myself to try to create a widget, but am running issues like missing vuecli / service etc which I haven't been able to figure out. (I'm still learning...)

Has anyone been able to do devcontainer-ize dashy and if so could you share the docker-compose/Dockerfile/.devcontainer files with me? TIA

Edit: NVM figured it out. I needed to update NODE_ENV=development in the compose file. After a yarn install, the build worked fine.

[mediocretwo]

Hi everyone, and @Lissy93 ! I just found this dashboard and I'm super excited to use it, its lovely. Thanks for this. I have gone through the setup process and everything seems to work fine. I just want a pointer on one little issue that I'm facing, I notice that icons from font awesome are automatically changing their colors with the selected theme very well. However when I use my custom svg icons from a local folder, the icons are not being recoloured/themed to match the existing theme, though the font awesome icons are being updated along with the themes. Is there any way to get my own svg icons to follow the same behaviour and update their colors to match the existing theme? Thanks!

[TexZeTech]

I too would love to know how this can be addressed.

[nicedevil007]

How can I center an image in a section?

[p0058781]

I couldn't find any info if it is possible to display list of docker container, directly from docker, without manually configuring each. Just an overview of all container with status (running/stopped)?

[CrazyWolf13]

Hi @p0058781
Indeed that would be a nice addition.

I myself first created a Grafana board and then iframed that, so it shows me all my usages in one nice widget.

Let me know if you want a detailed guide of my approach.

[Oceanestars]

Hi!
I'm currently looking at different dashboard tools. I was wondering if this could support database connection, like a file uploaded.
The vision would be a dashboard that's links to multiple running docker container(multiple apps) and from the dashboard I can file upload a file that could be used by any of those apps.

[CrazyWolf13]

Hi @Oceanestars

I don't think dashy (or any other dashboard)

Will support such a feature in the near future.

But what I could suggest is a html iframe to something like a "PingVin Share", that'd probably be the easiest.

You could also try something with creating your own html widget, that takes uploads, however this requires some knowledge about how docker containers work and html/css/js.

[Oceanestars]

Thanks, so what if I have dashy connected to a pingvin share container and I have a shared volume across all my containers and the file upload server drops stuff in the share volume.
That could act as what I described?
My concern with going this route is to realize I should have built something from scratch.

[PerplexedPenguin]

Hi, is there a way to individually set the size of widgets or items that are in the same section and organize them on a grid ?
I think it's possible as i've seen some screenshots like these : https://i.ibb.co/jGzPm6b/henkiewie-dashy-showcase.png
(there in the grafana section there are 8 1x1 widgets stacked on two 4x1 widgets) but i can't find anything about setting widget size in the docs.

Thanks !

[henkiewie]

this just one iframe the widgets you refer to are inside the grafana dashboard in kiosk mode itself.
the code in conf.yaml looked like this;
I don't use it anymore stepped over to homepage, but from what I remember I had to set an allow Xframe in grafana.ini because dashy uses a proxy.

  - name: RPI-LITE Grafana dashboard last hour
    icon: hl-grafana
    widgets:
      - type: iframe
        useProxy: true
        timeout: 8000
        options:
          url: >-
            https://grafana.rpi-lite.lan/d/VKtkKcAVy/rpi-lite-and-docker-monitoring?orgId=1&refresh=5s&refresh=1m&from=now-1h&to=now&kiosk
          frameHeight: 400
        id: 0_3216_iframe
    displayData:
      sortBy: default
      rows: 1
      cols: 4
      collapsed: false
      hideForGuests: false

To stretch the whole with of dashy I used a bit of css that is also described somewhere.

appConfig:
  customCss: |-
    .item-group-container { max-width: 90% !important; }
    .iframe-widget { height: auto; }
  layout: auto
  iconSize: large

Hope it helps...

[PerplexedPenguin]

Ahh of course that makes sense !

Thanks for the help, don't think that implementation will work for me as i'd like to keep the number of monitoring apps to a minimum but it's good to know.

[HitMannCU]

Hi everyone,
I'm just wondering if dashy support multiuser in a way that every user is able to customize their own dashboard but without admin privileges, like have their own different profiles per user, so every other user that needs more than one profile can do it, but w/o admin privileges.
The case is.. Give my whole family access to my self hosted dashy, but with their own session, so they can customize their own, without affecting the one I'm using.
Thanks in advance

[Kribensisis]

Hi! Amazing project. A few questions that probably don't need their own thread.

1. Can we have any live data on our apps, such as QBittorrent showing active downloads, Plex showing an active stream, or a website showing its ping? In the interactive editor I see a Display Data field, but not sure if it's meant for that use case.
2. In a theme, can I define a background image?
3. Can we customize the Glances widgets easily? They're a little too... big and bold. I want to show that data, but it's a bit jarring as these are currently designed.

[dto]

If you've got a quick question about setting up, configuring or using Dashy, then feel free to ask below, and either myself or another user will try and find a solution for you :)

Hi. I am running Dashy in a container. I get a widget failing to load data from Glances, which i can verify is running on 127.0.0.1 via a browser. It says to look at the logs, but i can't seem to find the error log anywhere. Can you tell me where the log file is stored?

[sgtrock]

Hi Lissy,

I'm another huge fan of your dashboard after trying it out. I've run into a network issue that I hope you can help me out with. I'm an old network admin but have very limited experience with Docker containers.

I'm starting Dashy using a pretty much stock default docker-compose.yml:

---

version: "3.8"
services:
dashy:
# To build from source, replace 'image: lissy93/dashy' with 'build: .'
# build: .
image: lissy93/dashy
container_name: Dashy
# Pass in your config file below, by specifying the path on your host machine
volumes:
- ~/docker/dashy/public/conf.yml:/app/user-data/conf.yml
- ~/docker/dashy/icons/:/app/user-data/item-icons/
ports:
- 8081:8080
# Set any environmental variables
environment:
- NODE_ENV=production
# Specify your user ID and group ID. You can find this by running id -u and id -g
- UID=1000
- GID=1000
# Specify restart policy
restart: unless-stopped
# Configure healthchecks
healthcheck:
test: ['CMD', 'node', '/app/services/healthcheck']
interval: 1m30s
timeout: 20s
retries: 3
start_period: 40s

The hardware is a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian bookworm. Outside of a somewhat slow start up time, it's been running fine. However, I noticed after I started it up that I was having trouble accessing other network resources from my Pi when the container was running. In fact, on my Dashy dashboard I'm getting a couple of "ENOTFOUND -3008" errors trying to provide status for services running in another subnet.

I finally figured out that it was due to an IP address collision between the subnet that the Pi is physically attached to (172.17.2.0/24)
and the default bridge addressing (172.16.0.0/16). Among other things, when Dashy is running my Pi is using 172.16.0.1 as its primary router instead of any of the other advertised routes.

I built 172.17.2.0/24 long, long before Docker was on my radar and readdressing it is impractical. It's almost two thousand miles away and has a fair number of devices in it.

I decided my best bet was to readdress the Dashy Docker network. I read through the Docker documentation and ended up creating /etc/docker/daemon.json on my Pi with the following content:

{
"bip": "10.201.1.1/16",
"fixed-cidr": "10.201.1.0/25",
"mtu": 1500,
"default-gateway": "10.201.0.1"
}

If I read the documentation correctly, that should create a default bridge network definition that won't collide with any network that I'm running or plan to create in the future.

I then ran docker-compose down, deleted the dashy image, and reran docker-compose up -d to pull it down and recreate it. However, when the dashy_default network was recreated, it still did so as 172.16.0.0/16.

My next thought was to use docker-compose.yml to provide the same information. Unfortunately I couldn't find any examples for how to use docker-compose.yml to readdress an internal network. I did find a couple references for how to add internal networks, though.

What would you recommend as the best means to readdress dashy_default?

TIA