Dashboards

Build your own dashboard from widgets, charts, text and images. A dashboard can be public, for example to show a building’s energy use on a screen. Open dashboards from Dashboards in the menu.

For ready-made dashboards, see Apps.

Create a dashboard

  1. Go to Dashboards and click New.

  2. Click the edit icon (Edit Layout) on the new dashboard.

  3. The editor opens with a Toolbox on the right. Click a category button and choose an item:

    • Widgets: dials, values, thermometers, gauges and indicators.

    • Charts.

    • Text, containers and images.

  4. Click on the dashboard to place the item. Drag to move and resize it.

  5. To set a widget’s feed and options, double-click it, or select it and click Configure selected item. Choose the Feed and click Save changes.

  6. Click Changed, press to save.

Dashboard editor

The Toolbox also has undo, redo, copy, cut, paste, and move to front or back.

Charts

Chart

Shows

graph

A saved graph from the graph module

realtime

Live power over a short moving window

zoom

Power and daily, monthly or annual kWh, with zoom

stackedsolar

Solar and use, stacked

orderbars

Daily values in order of size

timecompare

One period against another

Older dashboards with charts from the retired visualisation module are converted to these charts automatically.

Dashboard settings

In the editor, click Configure dashboard basic data to open Dashboard Configuration:

  • Dashboard name, Alias name and Description.

  • Background color and Grid size.

  • Main: show this dashboard first.

  • Published: activate the dashboard.

  • Public: anyone with the URL can see it.

  • Hide Menus: show the dashboard without the Emoncms menus.

Public dashboards

A public dashboard shows only feeds that are public. Make feeds public on the Feeds page with Edit. See Feeds.

Dashboard URLs:

URL

Shows

dashboard/view?id=3

Dashboard 3

dashboard/view/home

Dashboard with alias home

dashboard/view

Main dashboard

<username>/dashboard/view

Main public dashboard of a user

To show a private dashboard without logging in, add &readkey= and your read only API key. Anyone with the link can see the data.

Dashboard list

The list shows each dashboard with Name, Alias, main, Public and Published. The icons on each row clone, edit, delete and view the dashboard.

Dashboard list

Warning

Deleting a dashboard is permanent.

Examples

See the Emoncms showcase on the forum.