Turn a Raspberry Pi into a managed dashboard display
A Pi 4 or Pi 5, a spare monitor, and ten minutes. DisplayOps keeps your dashboard on screen and tells you when it is not.
For: Homelabs, small ops teams, and offices with a wall monitor nobody wants to babysit.
- CPU temp
- 51.2 °C
- Wi-Fi
- -58 dBm
- Storage
- 6.1 / 29 GB
- Uptime
- 41 d 3 h
- Browser
- Healthy
- Agent
- v0.4.2
The usual pain
- A DIY dashboard Pi works until it silently stops.
- Every screen is slightly different because each one was set up by hand.
- There is no way to see what is on the screen without walking over.
With DisplayOps
- Every Pi runs the same tested image and reports the same health data.
- Remote screenshots show exactly what the screen is showing.
- Offline alerts and automatic recovery replace the walk-over.
Setup
- 1Flash and pair the Pi.
- 2Assign your dashboard URL or a slideshow of several.
- 3Group screens by room or site and manage them together.
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Guide · HTTP authenticationHTTP basic auth pages on a TV without typing the password
Credentials in the URL stopped working in 2017 and leak everywhere. DisplayOps now stores a username and password encrypted on the content item and the screen answers the browser's Basic or Digest challenge itself, for the page and everything it loads. This guide covers putting any page behind basic auth with Caddy or nginx, adding it in the portal or the API, verifying it, and the security model.
Guide · Home AssistantHome Assistant wall display without a login screen
Home Assistant has no anonymous mode and ignores tokens in the URL, so a wall screen lands on the login page. The supported fix is a dedicated wall user plus the trusted networks auth provider with login bypass. This guide covers that, a dashboard built for a TV, the Kiosk Mode plugin, screens outside the home network, and keeping a Raspberry Pi on it all day.
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Questions
Which Pi should I buy?
A Raspberry Pi 4 with 2 GB or more, or a Pi 5. Use a high-endurance microSD or an SSD for long-running installs.
Connect a screen. Tell it what to display. We keep it running.
Three displays are free. No card, no sales call, no signage jargon.