Suggested Web Interface Features

I realise part of the difficulty of supporting a project like this is that everyone has preferences they're keen to have satisfied in their own particular way, however much work that might entail for the developer.

Nevertheless, some features may be trivial to integrate and benefit a lot of users, it never hurts to ask and if it's doable it may get done if we articulate a need.

What do folks wish could be integrated into the existing interface?

For myself I would love a tile to start and stop Docker (ideally individual containers).

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By tile, do you mean a dashboard widget?

I try not to make suggestions as to how it could be achieved but I'd guess that might be the easiest way. There's a dash widget that displays running containers that could be a neat spot to integrate it.

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Why would you start and stop docker?

I'm working with about 470MB of ram in total which's, granted, far from ideal but that's what I have. Start/stop docker seems like a compromise (and seems easier to integrate) but start/stop individual containers'd be more useful and largely negate the utility of stopping docker itself.

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Why can't you start and stop containers from the compose plugin?

That's what I do but while I find the web interface to be really good, the several steps to arrive where I can achieve this is both tricky on a handheld device and it takes several pauses getting that particular part of the interface to load. It's almost easier in a mobile terminal.

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I would rather work on real features

Fair enough, completely understand.

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Even if I could add actions to a widget

If you can't, you can't.

As to utility, I'm using an Xs (which I love the same as the first day I bought it). I've stated I find the web ui to be very good but from login to up/down action is a lot more than 5 secs. Not useful to you, ok fine.

Thanks for your time Arron, still interested in what other folks might ad to the interface were they in a position to do so (this thread was not exclusively about asserting my own needs)

Also – by the by but given you mentioned it earlier – wear levelling is a thing with high-end microSDs

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don't change much

15 year warranty on SanDisk max endurance. They seem pretty confident wouldn't y say?

That's without so much as touching on microSD eMMC adapters

I guess ram2file doesn't have a lot of headroom on a zero but those two things combined should offer pretty good lifetime (keep in mind this unit only runs about ten hours a day).

You're very much an engineer, Arron. That might seem like a dis, it's not but it's a bit of a limitation nonetheless

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I do have an engineering degree but I don't use it at all anymore

Social science/humanities can teach a person about a lot more than just how to appreciate a bit of classic lit or how to parse a census chart. It's a minor modern tragedy that we don't mandate liberal arts content in engineering degrees

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Probably just the only side I have patience to show on this forum anymore

Fair enough. I've always found you to be patient and gracious for the most part