Homelab notes from building AMUD Dashboard — Rust, Proxmox, zero YAML, and way too much SQLite. Written by Youssef Boubli.
amud.db is your whole config. Copy it. Don't forget .amud-secrets-key if you use encrypted integrations.
Read article →I've seen people maintain elaborate backup scripts for YAML dashboards — git repos, env files, secret sidecars, three different paths.
Dedicated amud system user, /opt/amud layout, systemd units. Lowest overhead if you have a spare NUC.
Read article →Sometimes you have a spare NUC or mini PC that does one job: show the dashboard on a wall and nothing else.
I built AMUD Dashboard so I'm biased. Here's when you'd still pick something else.
Read article →I built AMUD. I'm biased. Here's the honest comparison anyway.
If your CPU graphs freeze at 0%, your reverse proxy probably isn't forwarding WebSocket upgrades. Fix inside.
Read article →Deployed AMUD Dashboard behind Nginx, opened the page, everything looked fine except the CPU bar was stuck at 0% like the server was dead. Server wasn't dead. Nginx just ate the WebSocket upgrade.
Argon2id passwords, encrypted integration secrets, CSRF, rate limiting — what AMUD Dashboard actually ships with.
Read article →Your dashboard is a map to your entire homelab. Treat it like one.
Copy-paste CSS from the theme gallery. Dracula, Nord, Catppuccin, Cyberpunk Neon, and eight more with preview screenshots.
Read article →The default AMUD Dashboard look is orange glass. I like it. My partner said it looked like a Cheetos-themed spaceship cockpit. Fair.
Name your app card Home Assistant, drop in a long-lived token, get lights/switches/temp on the card.
Read article →I had a Home Assistant card that was literally just a URL. Useful, but my wall tablet deserved better.
AMUD Dashboard polls /Sessions and /status/sessions in the background. Your media cards show live stream titles.
Read article →"Is anyone watching something right now or can I restart the container?"
Two containers, one shared socket volume, AMUD_DOCKER=1 on the agent. Not Proxmox-native but still lean.
Read article →Not everyone runs Proxmox. Some of you are Docker-all-the-way-down and that's fine.
Link an app card to a CTID, get live RUNNING/STOPPED status, and optionally power-cycle containers without opening Proxmox.
Read article →A link list tells you where Jellyfin should be. It doesn't tell you Jellyfin is stopped because you updated the LXC last night and forgot to bring it back up.
Most dashboards shell out to pvesh or docker stats every few seconds. AMUD Dashboard reads /proc and talks to APIs natively in Rust.
Read article →Here's a pattern I've seen in a lot of homelab monitoring glue:
AMUD Dashboard stores your whole dashboard in amud.db. Edit in the browser, backup one file, never debug YAML indentation again.
Read article →I lost a Saturday to a YAML space.