Glance / Glances
I did a quick pass on Glance and Glances while looking for a lightweight, browser-based system dashboard. Both are capable, but Glances in particular felt more like a full monitoring suite than what I actually needed. Useful, powerful, but a bit overkill for my goal: a quick visual check on disk usage and system health.
Dash.
Dash ended up being the right fit. Clean UI, easy to scan, and focused on the basics. It gives me a fast sense of how the system is doing without feeling like I’m piloting a spaceship. This is the kind of “ambient awareness” tool I wanted running in a browser tab.
Jellyfin
Jellyfin is fully up and running. Everything plays as expected in the browser and on the TV app, and the library is locked down to avoid accidental changes. It’s reached that good point where I can stop fiddling and actually use it.
Next Steps
The next phase is less about servers and more about daily use:
- Set up phones and tablets as clients (media, files, notes).
- Decide how far to push beyond LAN-only access, or if that even makes sense.
- Start planning storage growth and migration paths before space becomes urgent.
For now, things are solid. The system works, it’s calm, and it’s ready to be lived with instead of constantly adjusted.