A dashboard screen on local monitor?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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hello, I'm looking to setup a openwrt on a raspberry pi and seen it can be done. But I was just curious about something. Sense I have a screen on my pi I would love to see a Dashboard on it the screen. Is this possible and If someone can please help me out with this? I'm not good at coding But I can follow any directions needed.

Joseph

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The simple answer would be: no
The reasonable answer would be: no
If you have to ask for help, the answer is most definitively: no

Technically the sky (and your abilities) is the limit, but that's beyond reasonable.

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Basically two options are imaginable:
a) writing a text based dashboard from zero, e.g. like the lcdproc based interface for the easybox 904xdsl
b) packaging x86/ wayland and a webbrowser, to display a dashboard in a kind of kiosk mode
both of these are 'possible', but require very substantial development work in the sense of months/ years.

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No is the answer But I will still search around and maybe I can figure something out. Thank you for the reply back.

Joseph

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You're certainly welcome to try, but you will not find anything. @slh is right, it is not possible by any practical means, unless you are running OpenWrt inside a virtualized environment on a host that has graphics capabilities. The main reason is that OpenWrt doesn't have any GUI capabilities at a all. It does not have the ability to drive a display for anything but basic text/console functions. And it most certainly cannot run a web browser (which is what is necessary for LuCI - the web interface for OpenWrt). You could always run another Pi or some simple/old device that has a reasonably modern web browser along side your primary OpenWrt Pi -- connect it to the monitor and you're golden.

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Hello, Thank you all for the help. Sorry I could not respond back. I broke 3 toes of my left foot, Got ran over by a riding lawnmower. Thank you neighbor for that.

I just wanted to have some type of status on my router that I don't have to keep on logging into the web interface and going through and seeing it or having to ssh in and seeing the status.

Joseph

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Could run htop on the monitor, but I don't know if it covers the networking.

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There is an option in htop to display basic networking-statistics, yes.

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There are really only two reasonable solutions:

  • As mentioned, run OpenWrt in a VM or a container and a web-browser or similar on the host, collecting and displaying info from OpenWrt.
  • Learn Python and then draw the graphics and any information you want displayed yourself.

Neither option is beginner-friendly, though, so you've got a lot to learn.