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Blinkenlights – a simple status dashboard app for iPhone

15 points by jazzychad 11y ago

jazzychad 11y ago
Hi everyone! Blinkenlights is a fun side-project app I made to be able to quickly see the status of anything you can dream up. I am obsessed with blinking status lights on hardware devices, so I used that as inspiration for a status dashboard UI. The app uses an open JSON protocol to drive the lights, and it's defined here: http://blinkenlights-api.jazzychad.net/spec.html http://blinkenlights-api.jazzychad.net/spec.html - the app comes with several example lights and registries for the S&P 500 stocks to show their change during the trading day. But you can create your own using the protocol above, and if you want you can contribute to the community registry so that others can use your lights. I also added the ability for people to manually add registries (e.g. if a company wanted to publish a list of lights internally for business-related statuses). Give it a try! I'll be adding more types of output displays over time.
panopticon 11y ago
Off topic, I can't read "Blinkenlights" without thinking of the old telnet Star Wars ASCII movie.
- jazzychad 11y ago
  ah yes :) telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
colinbartlett 11y ago
This is so cool, nice work!! This could integrate nicely with my own project: https://statusgator.io https://statusgator.io In your terminology, I could build a "Registry" of items and allow people to add each one to their Blinkenlights dashboard?
- jazzychad 11y ago
  yes, exactly, that would be awesome! if you make a registry I can add it to the community list.
  - colinbartlett 11y ago
    DONE! https://statusgator.io/blinkenlights/registry.json https://statusgator.io/blinkenlights/registry.json That's the top 5 most popular services on StatusGator. Users can see up/down/warn status for GitHub, DigitalOcean, Heroku, AWS, and Slack. Edit: Fixed typoe
    - jazzychad 11y ago
      sweet!! slight typo in json - tite should be title :) when that's fixed I'll add it to the community list! also consider adding ledLabel to each blinkenlight so it's easy to know which light means what on the dashboard :)

15 points by jazzychad 11y ago

Hi everyone! Blinkenlights is a fun side-project app I made to be able to quickly see the status of anything you can dream up. I am obsessed with blinking status lights on hardware devices, so I used that as inspiration for a status dashboard UI. The app uses an open JSON protocol to drive the lights, and it's defined here: http://blinkenlights-api.jazzychad.net/spec.html http://blinkenlights-api.jazzychad.net/spec.html - the app comes with several example lights and registries for the S&P 500 stocks to show their change during the trading day. But you can create your own using the protocol above, and if you want you can contribute to the community registry so that others can use your lights. I also added the ability for people to manually add registries (e.g. if a company wanted to publish a list of lights internally for business-related statuses). Give it a try! I'll be adding more types of output displays over time.

panopticon 11y ago

Off topic, I can't read "Blinkenlights" without thinking of the old telnet Star Wars ASCII movie.

jazzychad 11y ago
ah yes :) telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

colinbartlett 11y ago

This is so cool, nice work!! This could integrate nicely with my own project: https://statusgator.io https://statusgator.io In your terminology, I could build a "Registry" of items and allow people to add each one to their Blinkenlights dashboard?

jazzychad 11y ago
yes, exactly, that would be awesome! if you make a registry I can add it to the community list.
- colinbartlett 11y ago
  DONE! https://statusgator.io/blinkenlights/registry.json https://statusgator.io/blinkenlights/registry.json That's the top 5 most popular services on StatusGator. Users can see up/down/warn status for GitHub, DigitalOcean, Heroku, AWS, and Slack. Edit: Fixed typoe
  - jazzychad 11y ago
    sweet!! slight typo in json - tite should be title :) when that's fixed I'll add it to the community list! also consider adding ledLabel to each blinkenlight so it's easy to know which light means what on the dashboard :)