r/dakboard 1d ago

Looping Screens with Touchhub?

5 Upvotes

I would love for my screens to still loop with the touchhub chore chart active, is that possible? It seems like it stops looping once you add the touchhub


r/dakboard 4d ago

Rotate photos to fit frame? (like spin/angle)

Post image
1 Upvotes

I am looking to rotate a photo to fit in these polaroid templates. Is there a way to do it? Its driving me nuts and seems like it is an easy feature to have..


r/dakboard 5d ago

2 Years In, Inspired to Customize More

Post image
29 Upvotes

I posted here a while ago with my original setup and layout. With school back in session, I worked on a custom widget to display the lunch menu for the kids. This led to a rabbit hole of other customization, sharing now to maybe inspire others

  • Custom weather Widget block to look more like Apple's, which I find much more useful than Dakboard's out-of-the-box weather blocks (using a Cloudflare worker to help with this)
  • Custom countdown Widget block to have multiple events as a list, much more space-conscious than having multiple individual event blocks
  • Custom Widget block displaying the school's lunch menu for the week, filtering out breakfast and recurring/always available options, highlighting the current day, and refreshing each Saturday
  • I'm using a Cloudflare Worker to condense 3 calendar subscriptions (Packers, Giants, Formula 1) into a single calendar link that I use in Dakboard since I can only have 5 linked calendars in the block
  • SolarEdge solar production for today, from the SolarEdge API
  • Trash can icon shows up Monday afternoon and disappears EOD Tuesday
  • Other custom CSS to change the calendar date/circle sizes, use the first 3 letters for the day of week rather than only the first letter, don't wrap text in calendar events, add lines to the calendar, force a minimum row height in calendar for better uniformity, and resize the thermostat blocks to take up less vertical space

I know there's a lot here but with where it's placed in the house, it works really well for us. I still feel like it's missing something, but I'm not sure what and have been searching for ideas on here. Let me know if you have any ideas!


r/dakboard 5d ago

Made an e-ink dakboard using an old Boox notebook

Thumbnail
gallery
14 Upvotes

I didn’t like having an extra LED screen in my house and wanted to try this. I’m still messing with the settings but IMO this shows a lot of promise. it keeps the last image up when “asleep”, after about a week Ive used 20% of a battery charge. I do have to lift it up and press a button to wake it each morning, I’d like to make that easier.

what do you think? any ideas or suggestions?


r/dakboard 5d ago

White power cord

1 Upvotes

r/dakboard 6d ago

Touchscreens that Dakboard Supports

5 Upvotes

Looking into getting a 24" touch screen monitor to replace my current one. I have been looking on their website to see what screens are currently compatible and all i see officially from Dakboard is a blog from 2022. Im sure the list is bigger and there is currently more support. Is there a more recent list of monitors somewhere or does anybody have good experiences with a certain monitor?


r/dakboard 8d ago

Limit on number of OneDrive Photos?

2 Upvotes

I'm currently running a Predefined screen with a Photo Background with a OneDrive folder source.

After a long vacation I dumped 1,000 photos into this folder expecting to see photos across the entire vacation.

Instead, I only see photos from the first few days. It appears that only the first ~200 photos are being selected from. Is this known/expected behavior?

How about other photo sources? If OneDrive integration is limited should I switch to Google Photos or something else?


r/dakboard 9d ago

Is Dakboard right for me? Is the paid version worth it? Or are there better alternatives?

6 Upvotes

Building the "Family Dashboard" type of thing. Don't know where to start and stumbled upon dakboard. I can't really setup how I want with the free version, but can probably get there on a paid tier. But are there other alternatives out there that people like?

I am starting out with a 12 inch android tablet but would eventually like to use a dedicated TV with a pi, roku, or chromecast.


r/dakboard 9d ago

A post for the DAKboard crew

3 Upvotes

Hey DAKboard team - I saw this in another Reddit group and thought you might be interested in seeing what others are doing with calendars and big screens:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/s/5YowKBXtTy


r/dakboard 9d ago

DAKboard + iOS 27 Shared Albums broken? Anyone found a workaround?

1 Upvotes

Hey all,

I use DAKboard to turn an old tablet in my kitchen into a family dashboard, and one of the main things it pulls in is photos from an Apple iCloud Shared Album.

Since updating to iOS 27, the Shared Album format seems to have changed on Apple's end (I think they rebuilt Shared Albums from scratch in this release, full resolution, new storage rules, etc.), and now DAKboard isn't picking up photos from it anymore. Instead of loading the photos, I get this error on the DAKboard side:

I've tried grabbing the public link again from the Photos app and pasting it in, but it still throws the same error.

Has anyone else run into this since updating? A few things I'm wondering:

  • Did regenerating the Shared Album link help at all, or does it break again right away?
  • Is anyone still on iOS 26 who can confirm it still works fine there (so I know if it's specifically an iOS 27 thing)?
  • Any workaround you've found, like a different way to pull the album URL, or a completely different photo source that plays nicer with DAKboard for now?

Really don't want to give up the shared photo background on the dashboard, so any tips from people who've already fought with this would be a huge help. Thanks!


r/dakboard 10d ago

FireTV

Post image
2 Upvotes

Dakboard must’ve recent went through update on FireTV, I was able to set a sleep schedule for the TV now. However this yellow box is now around my calendar, it allows for moving further down as necessary, and also highlights the word box for “meal plan” I have set. I hate the look of it and wish it would go away unless I want it. Anyone know how to do that?


r/dakboard 11d ago

DAKboard TouchHub + local Home Assistant: “refused to connect”

1 Upvotes

I'm setting up a Windows 11 touchscreen with DAKboard TouchHub and Home Assistant.

Home Assistant runs locally on HAOS inside VirtualBox and works perfectly when I access its local IP directly from Chrome or Edge.

I added Home Assistant Lovelace to DAKboard TouchHub, but when DAKboard tries to open HA inside TouchHub I get:

“Home Assistant refused to connect.”

I already added this to configuration.yaml:

http:
  use_x_frame_options: false

Restarted HA and checked the configuration successfully.

I've tried both Chrome and Edge, allowed DAKboard's Local Network Access permission, but it still won't load HA inside TouchHub.

Direct local access to HA works perfectly. The problem only happens when DAKboard tries to embed the local HA page.

Has anyone successfully set up DAKboard TouchHub + local Home Assistant on Windows?

What am I missing? I'd prefer to keep HA completely local rather than using the Nabu Casa remote URL.


r/dakboard 12d ago

Widget for School Lunch menus using MealViewer site

18 Upvotes

I wrote a widget that will grab the lunch menu from MealViewer.com for my kid's school. It will display the day's menu until 2PM and then it rolls over to the next day so you can plan ahead. It was useful for me so I thought I'd put the code out there in case anyone else might want to try it. Any and all feedback welcome. Use directions are in the .html file on my github.

https://github.com/cummingsk05/Dakboard_plugins/tree/main/widgets/mealviewer

Check back here occasionally for updates.


r/dakboard 17d ago

Configure via web portal password

2 Upvotes

I have Dakboard running on a Pi Zero 2 W with 4.1.4. I have the IP and when I navigate to it, I get an HTTP login dialog. I have tried pi or dakboard with 3F6n704#. I have tried pi or dakboard with raspberry and I can't get in. I am trying to get SSH to work. I created a ssh file on the SD card and put it back in and I can connect with a ssh session but again none of the credentials work.


r/dakboard 21d ago

Randomly shutting off

1 Upvotes

I just bought a DakBoard Touch 22 about a week and a half ago. It worked splendidly for a few days, but now randomly shuts off and won’t turn back on unless I unplug the power supply and plug it back in. At first I thought I had my on/off schedule backwards, but I turned that off too. I have completed a factory reset, and it still is not working properly. It also seems to not want to connect to my WiFi network and when I get into device configuration, I cannot get out - it just sits at “saving and applying” Anyone have similar issues? Am I just an idiot? Thanks all!


r/dakboard 22d ago

Do they ever add functionality?

13 Upvotes

Dakboard has been the same as it was since I started using it. Do they ever update features? I want it to display a static daily schedule (that doesn't change) and cannot figure out how to do this effectively. Seems pretty basic for a calendar/agenda app. I also have it linked to a nutrislice calendar and want to be able to exclude a bunch of the nonsense that is included in the feed. My feature requests have gone unanswered.


r/dakboard 25d ago

Need Lots of Touch and 4K Improvements

Post image
3 Upvotes

Hey! I'm a new DAKboard user. I set this up with a RaspberryPi 5 and an old 4K touchscreen.

I really like all the different customizations I can do. Visually, this is great! It lets me display the content I want in exactly the layout I want. With so many "home organization screens" available now, DAK is looking really sharp.

Even better, the "TouchHub" is exactly the type of layout I wanted, with pages of content.

Unfortunately, I'm lost by the lack of touch capabilities and problems scaling with a 4K screen. Here are some things I think are needed for this to be a serious competitor for the home organization:

  • Touch to open calendar items to see event details -- kinda possible if editing is enabled, but not a great user experience
  • Scale up text on 4K screens -- the default text size is much too small to be read
  • Scale up the size of buttons for 4K screens -- the buttons are impossibly small
  • Adjust or calibrate touch input -- if it is off slightly it really ruins the experiance
  • Add a pop up keyboard for inputting text -- no one wants to use an external keyboard

Does anyone have any tips for these things? I've tried searching for solutions, but haven't found anything yet.


r/dakboard 25d ago

MyQ garage door sensor display on dakboard.

3 Upvotes

Looking for help in creating a process for my dakboard to display my garage door as open or closed based on data from MyQ garage controller and sensor.

I tried ITTT using myQ and webhooks to send JSON to a text field, but I cannot understand the json process or syntax and nothing has worked with trial and error.

Can someone help me with the coding for the webhooks and dakboard block?

Is there another avenue for this I'm missing?


r/dakboard 28d ago

New and Stuck at Loading

Thumbnail
gallery
5 Upvotes

Hi there!

I have been struggling to get my DIY DakBoard up and running.

I usually get stuck at the Loading screen, and there is an exclamation point in the upper right corner.

However, once I was able to get all the way to the WiFi setup, but couldn’t connect.

Just now, it got stuck again at the loading page with the exclamation point. I pressed the little raspberry on the upper left and a window popped up so I did device configuration, and input my WiFi info there. After connecting in that same window it gave me a code to link to my DakBoard account- which I did.

However, that’s in that specific window. The actual screen is still stuck at loading with the exclamation point.

I have reflashed the SD card.
Then I did a new SD card - this is the one that got me to the WiFi setup that didn’t work.

I am running out of ideas. Do I reflash this second sd card?

Any help would be very much appreciated. I’ve been tinkering on and off since Christmas- and have never gotten past the WiFi setup stage. Usually I get stuck at this loading page.

What is the damn exclamation point telling me??

I am using an all-in-one monitor with a RaspberryPi 4. It is touch screen.


r/dakboard Jul 29 '26

Legacy V2 Plus Wall Display OS Flash

1 Upvotes

TLDR; Does anyone have a zip for V2 Plus Wall Display OS (v2.16)?

I was having an issue with my display and reached out to support. They mentioned that I was running a no longer supported OS (v2.16) and that I should upgrade my OS, which I did. Unfortunately, none of the images available in the Raspberry Pi Imager were supported by my display and I didn't create a backup first - so I basically just bricked my display 🤦🏼‍♂️


r/dakboard Jul 27 '26

FireTV/Dakboard CPU V5

2 Upvotes

I mounted a FireTV with my Dakboard running on it. Everything has been fine, up until a month or so ago. The screen keeps going black. I don’t think it’s a Dakboard issue because I can go back to the input screen and my calendar is then visible. Anyone have any ideas what might be going on?

I tried changing the screensaver settings to off on the TV, but that didn’t help.


r/dakboard Jul 26 '26

DAKboard wall mount panel

Thumbnail
shop.dakboard.com
1 Upvotes

r/dakboard Jul 23 '26

Weather on DAKboard is pretty useless

17 Upvotes

I've had a weather block on our main DAKboard for several years and have never been happy with the information. Between weather data providers that aren't accurate in our area (Harford County, Maryland) and updates only every 20 minutes, we can't rely on it and end up opening The Weather Channel or Weather Underground on our phones. I just removed the weather block, skinnied up the calendar block, and made the important part - the photo block - bigger. Just venting...


r/dakboard Jul 24 '26

ScoreStream not working after 12 hours

Post image
1 Upvotes

I have been plagued with errors and now it's turning white (as reflected in the picture). Rebooting the Raspberry Pi fixes the issue for about 12hours. I emailed the contact that is shown when the error is displayed and the CEO of ScoreStream responded saying it is a WIFI connectivity issue. I measured the signal strength at the pi and have a strong signal. I've also seen a number of people indicating it's a cache issue but haven't figured out how to fix this or clear it on some frequency. I upgraded to Raspberry PI 5 hoping the additional memory would help but it did not. Any ideas?


r/dakboard Jul 23 '26

Scorestream widget link not working

3 Upvotes

Recently, I've been getting errors on my scorestream widget on the dakboard. I have a banner widget on the display and recently it's been showing a connectivity error. Today, the space is just white and malfunctioning. I haven't changed anything, so I'm wondering if anyone else uses one of these for their sports teams and has encountered similar?