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Widget directory
A complete guide to every HomeStart widget and what to use it for.
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Clock & Multi-Engine Search
Shows the current time and provides private web search with a choice of search providers.
Bookmarks & Shortcuts
Organises public and private links into categories, folders, list, card and icon views.
Live RSS News Feeds
Combines public news sources and private RSS subscriptions into a configurable news desk.
Live Weather & Forecast
Shows current conditions, daily forecasts, humidity, wind, air quality and saved locations.
World Clocks & Solar Day/Night
Compares time zones, daylight and business hours for travel or international meetings.
Daily Knowledge & Inspiration
Displays technology quotations, a word of the day and computing-history facts.
Currency & Crypto Exchange
Converts currencies and follows selected cryptocurrency values using live market data.
Market & Crypto Tickers
Tracks selected market symbols with latest prices and compact trend lines.
Quick Tools
Keeps frequently used calculator and world-clock utilities together in a compact panel.
Calendar & Agenda
Maintains a private synced month calendar, events and daily agenda.
Daily Time Planner
Builds a simple private daily schedule from editable time blocks.
Tasks & Notes Scratchpad
Combines quick to-do checklists with a lightweight markdown scratchpad.
Private Notes & Scratchpad
Stores searchable, pinnable notes that sync with the signed-in account and can be exported.
Colour Sticky Notes & Canvas
Creates colour-coded notes for ideas, reminders and temporary working information.
Pomodoro Timer & Focus Sounds
Runs timed focus and break sessions with optional locally generated focus audio.
Daily Habits & Goal Streaks
Tracks repeatable habits, completion rings and streaks across days.
Countdowns & Events
Counts down to birthdays, renewals, trips, launches and deadlines.
Reading Queue
Saves articles and useful pages to read later on any signed-in device.
Subscription Cost Tracker
Records recurring services and estimates monthly and annual spending.
Home Inventory & Warranties
Keeps a private record of devices, serial notes and warranty dates.
Offers & Deals Watchlist
Saves products, current prices and deal links for later comparison.
Scientific Calculator & Units
Provides a calculator plus common temperature, weight and digital-storage conversions.
JWT Token & JSON Diff Inspector
Decodes JWT structure locally and compares two JSON documents without sending their contents away.
Colour Palette & Gradient Studio
Builds colour harmonies, checks WCAG contrast and produces CSS gradients.
Code Snippets & SQL Vault
Stores reusable code, SQL, Docker and shell snippets in a searchable private collection.
Developer Toolbox & Converters
Formats JSON and provides Base64, URL, UUID and Unix-time utilities.
RegEx Evaluator & Cheatsheet
Tests regular expressions against sample text and provides common pattern references.
GitHub Trending Repositories
Surfaces currently popular open-source repositories and recent star growth.
Instant QR Code Generator
Creates downloadable QR codes for URLs, Wi-Fi details and plain text.
Private Password Generator
Creates strong random passwords locally without saving or transmitting them.
Podcasts & Tech Talks Player
Browses and plays selected development and science podcast episodes with speed control.
Live Lo-Fi & Jazz Web Radio
Streams a selection of lo-fi, synthwave and jazz radio channels.
Ambient Soundscape Synthesizer
Mixes rain, waves, campfire and focus tones into a background soundscape.
Hydration & Health Wellness
Combines water tracking, an eye-rest timer and guided box breathing.
Server & Device Inventory
Keeps a private directory of physical hosts, virtual machines, NAS devices and appliances.
Infrastructure Connections
Shows read-only connection health across hosting, storage, container, monitoring and network services.
cPanel Server
Shows cPanel account identity, quotas, domains, mail, databases and available resource information.
Plesk Server
Displays Plesk server and hosting status from a connected panel.
Proxmox VE
Reports the connection and status of a Proxmox virtualisation host.
TrueNAS
Displays connection and storage-server status for TrueNAS.
Unraid
Displays connection and server status for an Unraid host.
Synology DSM
Displays connection and NAS status from Synology DSM.
QNAP QTS
Checks the availability of a QNAP storage appliance.
Portainer
Shows connection health for a Portainer container-management service.
Docker Engine
Checks and displays Docker Engine API status.
Universal Server Stats
Shows cross-platform CPU, memory, disk, network and container data through Glances.
Netdata Monitor
Displays node identity, collectors, charts and active Netdata health alarms.
Prometheus Monitor
Builds a customizable multi-system dashboard from Prometheus targets, metrics and alerts.
Home Assistant
Shows connection and service status for a Home Assistant installation.
Uptime Kuma
Shows whether an Uptime Kuma monitoring service is connected and healthy.
Pi-hole
Displays DNS filtering and protection status from Pi-hole.
AdGuard Home
Displays DNS blocking health, query activity and filtering status.
Tailscale
Shows tailnet connection status and available device information.
IPv4 Subnet Calculator
Calculates CIDR masks, network ranges, broadcast addresses and usable host counts.
Network Port Reference
Searches common infrastructure, hosting and homelab service ports.
Server Maintenance Checklist
Provides a repeatable routine for updates, backups, certificates and log review.
Backup & Restore Planner
Tracks backup jobs, schedules, destinations and restore verification.
Incident & Change Log
Keeps a local timeline of outages, upgrades and configuration changes.
Host Resource Planner
Plans CPU, RAM and storage capacity while preserving safe host reserves.
TLS Certificate Watchlist
Tracks certificate names and renewal dates for public and private services.
Service & Homelab Uptime Monitor
Checks HTTP status, response latency, certificate dates and recorded uptime.
Network, Public IP & DNS Inspector
Displays public IP and protocol information and performs live DNS record lookups.
Live System & Hardware Monitor
Displays live CPU, RAM, disk and Windows-service information from the HomeStart server.
Plesk Windows & MySQL Diagnostics
Shows local server health and selected MySQL diagnostic information for administrators.
Network Bandwidth Speed Test
Measures server-side ping, jitter, download and upload performance.