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README.md
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You will need [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) installed on your system
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```
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docker run -p 8080:80 lissy93/dashy
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```
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Or
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```docker
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docker run -d \
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-p 4000:80 \
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---
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## Icons 🧸
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> For full iconography documentation, see: [**Icons**](./docs/icons.md)
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Both sections and items can have an icon associated with them, and defined under the `icon` attribute. There are many options for icons, including Font Awesome support, automatic fetching from favicon, programmatically generated icons and of course URLs.
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<p align="center">
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<img width="400" src="https://i.ibb.co/GTVmZnc/dashy-example-icons.png" />
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</p>
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If icon is set to `favicon`, then it will be automatically fetched from the URL of the corresponding application. To use any font-awesome icon, specify the category, followed by the icon name, e.g. `fas fa-rocket`, `fab fa-monero` or `fas fa-unicorn`, you can also use Pro icons, by setting your API key under `appConfig.fontAwesomeKey`. If the icon is set to `generative`, then a unique icon is generated from the apps URL or IP. You can also host an icon either locally or using any CDN service, and pass it's URL into the `icon` attribute, e.g. `https://i.ibb.co/710B3Yc/space-invader-x256.png`. To use a local image, store it in `./public/item-icons/` (or `-v /app/public/item-icons/` in Docker) , and reference it by name and extension - e.g. set `icon: image.png` to use `./public/item-icon/image.png`, you can also use sub-folders here if you have a lot of icons, to keep them organised.
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## Cloud Backup & Sync ☁
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> For full backup documentation, see: [**Cloud Backup & Sync**](./docs/backup-restore.md)
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- [Troubleshooting](/docs/troubleshooting.md)
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- [Backup & Restore](/docs/backup-restore.md)
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- [Theming](/docs/theming.md)
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- [Icons](/docs/icons.md)
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- [Authentication](/docs/authentication.md)
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**[⬆️ Back to Top](#dashy)**
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## Icons
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Both sections and items can have an icon, which is specified using the `icon` attribute. Using icons improves the aesthetics of your UI and makes the app more intuitive to use. There are several options when it comes to setting icons, and this article outlines each of them
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- [Font Awesome Icons](#font-awesome)
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- [Favicons](#favicons)
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- [Generative Icons](#generative-icons)
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- [Icons by URL](#icons-by-url)
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- [Local Icons](#local-icons)
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- [No Icon](#no-icon)
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### Font Awesome
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You can use any [Font Awesome Icon](https://fontawesome.com/icons) simply by specifying it's identifier. This is in the format of `[category] [name]` and can be found on the page for any given icon on the Font Awesome site. For example: `fas fa-rocket`, `fab fa-monero` or `fas fa-unicorn`.
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Font-Awesome has a wide variety of free icons, but you can also use their pro icons if you have a membership. To do so, you need to specify your license key under: `appConfig.fontAwesomeKey`. This is usually a 10-digit string, for example `13014ae648`.
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### Favicons
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Dashy can auto-fetch the favicon for a given service using it's URL. Just set `icon: favicon` to use this feature. If the services URL is a local IP, then Dashy will attempt to find the favicon from `http://[ip]/favicon.ico`. This has two issues, favicons are not always hosted at the same location for every service, and often the default favicon is a low resolution. Therefore to fix this, for remote services an API is used to return a high-quality icon for any online service.
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The default favicon API is [Favicon Kit](https://faviconkit.com/), a free and reliable service for returning images from any given URL. However several other API's are supported. To change the API used, under `appConfig`, set `faviconApi` to one of the following values:
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- `faviconkit` - [faviconkit.com](https://faviconkit.com/) (Recommend)
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- `google` - Official Google favicon API service, good support for all sites, but poor quality
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- `clearbit` - [Clearbit](https://clearbit.com/logo) returns high-quality logos from mainstream websites
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- `webmasterapi` - [WebMasterAPI](https://www.webmasterapi.com/get-favicons)
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- `allesedv` - [allesedv.com](https://favicon.allesedv.com/) is a highly efficient IPv6-enabled service
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You can also force Dashy to always get favicons from the root of the domain, and not use an external service, by setting `appConfig.faviconApi` to `local`.
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### Generative Icons
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Uses a unique and programmatically generated icon for a given service. This is particularly useful when you have a lot of similar services with a different IP or port, and no specific icon. These icons are generated with [ipsicon.io](https://ipsicon.io/). To use this option, just set an item's to: `icon: generative`.
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### Icons by URL
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You can also set an icon by passing in a valid URL pointing to the icons location. For example `icon: https://i.ibb.co/710B3Yc/space-invader-x256.png`, this can be in .png, .jpg or .svg format, and hosted anywhere- so long as it's accessible from where you are hosting Dashy. The icon will be automatically scaled to fit, however loading in a lot of large icons may have a negative impact on performance, especially if you visit Dashy from new devices often.
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### Local Icons
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You may also want to store your icons locally, bundled within Dashy so that there is no reliance on outside services. This can be done by putting the icons within Dashy's ./public/item-icons/` directory. If you are using Docker, then the easiest option is to map a volume from your host system, for example: `-v /local/image/directory:/app/public/item-icons/`. To reference an icon stored locally, just specify it's name and extension. For example, if my icon was stored in `/app/public/item-icons/maltrail.png`, then I would just set `icon: maltrail.png`.
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You can also use sub-folders within the `item-icons` directory to keep things organised. You would then specify an icon with it's folder name slash image name. For example: `networking/monit.png`
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### No Icon
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If you don't wish for a given item or section to have an icon, just leave out the `icon` attribute.
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- [Backup & Restore](/docs/backup-restore.md)
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- [Status Indicators](/docs/status-indicators.md)
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- [Theming](/docs/theming.md)
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- [Icons](/docs/icons.md)
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- [Authentication](/docs/authentication.md)
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