terminal-dashboard

A minimal, self-contained bash dashboard for monitoring a home media server. Displays service health, disk usage, active Plex streams, download speed, uptime, and quick-access links — all in a single terminal window with an animated cat.

• Service monitoring (Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, AdGuard, Syncthing)
• Seagate external drive usage
• Active Plex stream count
• qBittorrent download speed
• System uptime
• Web UI quick-links table
• Auto-refresh every 60 seconds
• Animated cat patrols the bottom of the terminal

brew tap embmeals/tap
brew install terminal-dashboard

gem install terminal-dashboard --source "https://rubygems.pkg.github.com/embmeals"

• macOS (uses defaults read, pgrep, tput)
• curl, python3
• Plex Media Server running locally
• qBittorrent Web UI reachable on the network

All settings are at the top of lib/dashboard.sh:

Set credentials via environment variables:

export QBIT_PASS="yourpassword"
./dashboard.sh

terminal-dashboard

Or run directly from source:

chmod +x lib/dashboard.sh
./lib/dashboard.sh

Press Ctrl+C to exit. The terminal is automatically reset on exit.

MIT