Freeboard vs Homepage

Freeboard

A damn-sexy, open source real-time dashboard builder for IOT and other web mashups. A free open-source alternative to Geckoboard. (by Freeboard)

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Homepage

A simple, standalone, self-hosted PHP page that is your window to your server and the web. (by tomershvueli)

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Freeboard		Homepage
	Project
4	Mentions	2
6,410	Stars	301
0.1%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
7 months ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Freeboard

Posts with mentions or reviews of Freeboard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-31.

Platform to monetize user interface
1 project | /r/IOT | 23 Aug 2022

I also found freeboard.io last night.
How to build an IoT dashboard
4 projects | dev.to | 31 Dec 2021

Freeboard.io – Open-source. Very popular, but doesn’t currently support MQTT out of the box.
How do I run a index.html file using Django as a webserver. I'm trying to run Freeboard with Django.
1 project | /r/django | 22 Jul 2021

I'm trying to create a simple dashboard using Freeboard and Django. I'm having trouble understanding how I can connect these two. I need to make changes to the HTML from Django.
Looking for a software to use phone as output (not as second monitor)
1 project | /r/software | 6 Jun 2021

Homepage

Posts with mentions or reviews of Homepage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-24.

Which dashboard do you use and why?
3 projects | /r/homelab | 24 Oct 2022

So, I wasn't aware of this until I started this poll. But apparently, there are two Homepages. This one and this one. Which one are you using? Or perhaps another one that I'm not aware of?
I've created a new self-hosted dashboard.
5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 25 Aug 2022

I'm not sure if you're just using "homepage" as a generic term which is fine, but there is a dashboard called homepage https://github.com/tomershvueli/homepage

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Freeboard and Homepage you can also consider the following projects:

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

Heimdall - An Application dashboard and launcher

Thingsboard - Open-source IoT Platform - Device management, data collection, processing and visualization.

Organizr - HTPC/Homelab Services Organizer - Written in PHP

DashMachine - Another web application bookmark dashboard, with fun features.

Thingspeak - ThingSpeak is an open source “Internet of Things” application and API to store and retrieve data from things using HTTP over the Internet or via a Local Area Network. With ThingSpeak, you can create sensor logging applications, location tracking applications, and a social network of things with status updates.

Reportr

Dashing

bucket4j - Java rate limiting library based on token-bucket algorithm.

InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

iDashboard-PHP - HTPC Dashboard to load website services, written in PHP