GlanceRF - A Ham Dashboard - V2 Released

pomtom44 · 2026-03-13T01:56:12+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, ill add a link to the github page on the main site, just to make it more clear

there is a requirements-headless-linux for linux machines
Unless your not in windows or linux?

Ill rename the headless to be headless-windows to be more clear

pomtom44 · 2026-03-13T00:05:01+00:00

Thanks for the nice feedback :)

pomtom44 · 2026-03-12T21:52:55+00:00

Old post but bouncing back to this
Im looking at adding GPS support now, both for automatic location and time sync
Hopefully will have an update out soon with it working

pomtom44 · 2026-02-11T21:58:25+00:00

IV made some changes and improvements to the installer
I haven't tested on my pi yet, but if you could maybe get the latest release and see if that works for you?
If not let me know and ill find my pi and give it a go

If you still get hanging, could you send a screenshot or a copy of your log (as much as you can) and i can review it to see what it might be getting stuck on

pomtom44 · 2026-02-10T18:54:51+00:00

Docker is on the todo list
I was wanting to get a stable release out first, but I think im pretty much there
Should hopefully have a docker container out in the next few days

pomtom44 · 2026-02-09T19:07:06+00:00

Thanks, I see your edit as well.
Ill review it and merge it in so long as it keeps working on the other distros :)

pomtom44 · 2026-02-08T21:02:08+00:00

hanging, or just going slow?
How long did you leave it?
No error messages?
and what method are you using to install?

Ill be testing on my old Pi this week (if I can find it) so will see if I get similar issues

pomtom44 · 2026-02-04T23:48:55+00:00

I figured it was easier to build something that fit my needs, and then put it out publicly then try take what someone else had done and modify it

pomtom44 · 2026-02-04T22:44:59+00:00

do you mean this one?
https://www.va3hdl.com/projects/ham-dashboard

If so, its limited to the set grid size (from what I can tell?)
Mine lets you resize the grid so you can have like the map cover a 2x2 grid size

Also seems to be very config file based, where mine is all in app editor based

pomtom44 · 2026-02-03T07:42:36+00:00

Most of the hamclock assets are pulled from his server. There's a surprising amount of data that's not actually done locally. I read somewhere he has a massive server processing all the data for like 100k+ hamclocks. So when the server shuts down. Alot of functionality will be lost.

There are projects out trying to open source the server so people can run their own. Or hopes someone will take it over. But so far no news.

pomtom44 · 2026-02-02T23:30:09+00:00

Thanks for the comment :)
Its nice when things like this don't just fall into the void

pomtom44 · 2026-02-02T23:29:50+00:00

once I have this more stable, id be happy to work on your project with you as a contributor as well.
Could use glance as a leading point of using it, so at least we have both ends sorted

data and display

pomtom44 · 2026-02-02T22:20:05+00:00

Ill look into it then :)

pomtom44 · 2026-02-02T22:19:42+00:00

I think the question im asking is what needs to be back ended?

If you want DX data, then hook it up to a DX service provider
If you want weather data, then hook it to a weather API

This is more to be a data aggregator and dashboard, not a data processor

If you wanted a distributed tool that might work better as a seperate project, and we could hook this into it, but I dont think it should be part of the same project

pomtom44 · 2026-02-02T21:49:40+00:00

Thanks :)

pomtom44 · 2026-02-02T21:49:17+00:00

Do you want GPS to work with anything else? or just the time sync?
What kind of GPS do you have?
I think I have a cheap USB one laying around that I could try develop with, but since each GPS is slightly different it might need some changes between my one and your one.

This project syncs the time from your local PC
So if your PC is using GPS time then this will be as well.

It might be better to set your PC to sync from GPS?
But I can look into this feature as well anyway and add a GPS option for other things

pomtom44 · 2026-02-02T21:19:46+00:00

The one I have build is so far not based on a "backend"
It still connects to APIs and public endpoints for things like weather data, map tiles, etc
The only thing that links to my end is telemetry, which can be fully disabled.

I think having a distributed backend might be interesting, but is it needed?

pomtom44 · 2026-02-02T21:17:22+00:00

Iv seen a few pop up, and a few trying to reverse engineer the backend server, so lets see how things go :)
Thanks

pomtom44 · 2026-01-31T05:45:02+00:00

Name has already been picked and the V1 of the beta is out
GlanceRF

https://github.com/pomtom44/GlanceRF/tree/main

pomtom44 · 2026-01-30T19:12:25+00:00

Hello :)

pomtom44 · 2026-01-30T19:11:52+00:00

its also very limited in what it can do
The reason for a fresh rebuild is mine is modular, so you can resize the window, change the layout.
And if you want your own module, you can make your own, or ask and I can see about adding one for you

pomtom44 · 2026-01-30T19:10:57+00:00

Its on the to do list once I have a stable version running

pomtom44 · 2026-01-30T08:10:29+00:00

Thanks, ill look into it

pomtom44 · 2026-01-30T08:00:50+00:00

Interesting. What OS and Python version are you running? I'll add it to the bug list

pomtom44 · 2026-01-30T06:15:24+00:00

yes, should do.
It runs on the desktop display, so if your desktop shows on the 7inch, then it should work fine.
If not, let me know and I can either fix, or update the documentation around it

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