Configuration is done via a single YAML file and a server restart is required in order for any changes to take effect. Trying to start the server with an invalid config file will result in an error.
## Preconfigured page
If you don't want to spend time reading through all the available configuration options and just want something to get you going quickly you can use the following `glance.yml` and make changes as you see fit:
```yaml
pages:
- name: Home
columns:
- size: small
widgets:
- type: calendar
- type: rss
limit: 10
collapse-after: 3
cache: 3h
feeds:
- url: https://ciechanow.ski/atom.xml
- url: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/rss.xml
title: Josh Comeau
- url: https://samwho.dev/rss.xml
- url: https://awesomekling.github.io/feed.xml
- url: https://ishadeed.com/feed.xml
title: Ahmad Shadeed
- type: twitch-channels
channels:
- theprimeagen
- cohhcarnage
- christitustech
- blurbs
- asmongold
- jembawls
- size: full
widgets:
- type: hacker-news
- type: videos
channels:
- UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg # Jeff Geerling
- UCv6J_jJa8GJqFwQNgNrMuww # ServeTheHome
- UCOk-gHyjcWZNj3Br4oxwh0A # Techno Tim
- type: reddit
subreddit: selfhosted
- size: small
widgets:
- type: weather
location: London, United Kingdom
- type: stocks
stocks:
- symbol: SPY
name: S&P 500
- symbol: BTC-USD
name: Bitcoin
- symbol: NVDA
name: NVIDIA
- symbol: AAPL
name: Apple
- symbol: MSFT
name: Microsoft
- symbol: GOOGL
name: Google
- symbol: AMD
name: AMD
- symbol: RDDT
name: Reddit
```
This will give you a page that looks like the following:
Configure the widgets, add more of them, add extra pages, etc. Make it your own!
## Server
Server configuration is done through a top level `server` property. Example:
```yaml
server:
port: 8080
assets-path: /home/user/glance-assets
```
### Properties
| Name | Type | Required | Default |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ------- |
| host | string | no | |
| port | number | no | 8080 |
| assets-path | string | no | |
#### `host`
The address which the server will listen on. Setting it to `localhost` means that only the machine that the server is running on will be able to access the dashboard. By default it will listen on all interfaces.
#### `port`
A number between 1 and 65,535, so long as that port isn't already used by anything else.
#### `assets-path`
The path to a directory that will be served by the server under the `/assets/` path. This is handy for widgets like the Monitor where you have to specify an icon URL and you want to self host all the icons rather than pointing to an external source.
> [!IMPORTANT]
>
> When installing through docker the path will point to the files inside the container. Don't forget to mount your assets path to the same path inside the container.
> Example:
>
> If your assets are in:
> ```
> /home/user/glance-assets
> ```
>
> You should mount:
> ```
> /home/user/glance-assets:/app/assets
> ```
>
> And your config should contain:
> ```
> assets-path: /app/assets
> ```
##### Examples
Say you have a directory `glance-assets` with a file `gitea-icon.png` in it and you specify your assets path like:
```yaml
assets-path: /home/user/glance-assets
```
To be able to point to an asset from your assets path, use the the `/assets/` path like such:
```yaml
icon: /assets/gitea-icon.png
```
## Theme
Theming is done through a top level `theme` property. Values for the colors are in [HSL](https://giggster.com/guide/basics/hue-saturation-lightness/) (hue, saturation, lightness) format. You can use a color picker [like this one](https://hslpicker.com/) to convert colors from other formats to HSL. The values are separated by a space and `%` is not required for any of the numbers.
Whether the scheme is light or dark. This does not change the background color, it inverts the text colors so that they look appropriately on a light background.
#### `background-color`
Color of the page and widgets.
#### `primary-color`
Color used across the page, largely to indicate unvisited links.
#### `positive-color`
Used to indicate that something is positive, such as stock price being up, twitch channel being live or a monitored site being online. If not set, the value of `primary-color` will be used.
#### `negative-color`
Oppposite of `positive-color`.
#### `contrast-multiplier`
Used to increase or decrease the contrast (in other words visibility) of the text. A value of `1.3` means that the text will be 30% lighter/darker depending on the scheme. Use this if you think that some of the text on the page is too dark and hard to read. Example:
#### `text-saturation-multiplier`
Used to increase or decrease the saturation of text, useful when using a custom background color with a high amount of saturation and needing the text to have a more neutral color. `0.5` means that the saturation will be 50% lower and `1.5` means that it'll be 50% higher.
Path to a custom CSS file, either external or one from within the server configured assets path. Example:
```yaml
theme:
custom-css-file: /assets/my-style.css
```
> [!TIP]
>
> Because Glance uses a lot of utility classes it might be difficult to target some elements. To make it easier to style specific widgets, each widget has a `widget-type-{name}` class, so for example if you wanted to make the links inside just the RSS widget bigger you could use the following selector:
Using pages and columns is how widgets are organized. Each page contains up to 3 columns and each column can have any number of widgets.
### Pages
Pages are defined through a top level `pages` property. The page defined first becomes the home page and all pages get automatically added to the navigation bar in the order that they were defined. Example:
The name of the page which gets shown in the navigation bar.
#### `slug`
The URL friendly version of the title which is used to access the page. For example if the title of the page is "RSS Feeds" you can make the page accessible via `localhost:8080/feeds` by setting the slug to `feeds`. If not defined, it will automatically be generated from the title.
Whether to show a header displaying the name of the page on mobile. The header purposefully has a lot of vertical whitespace in order to push the content down and make it easier to reach on tall devices.
Columns are defined for each page using a `columns` property. There are two types of columns - `full` and `small`, which refers to their width. A small column takes up a fixed amount of width (300px) and a full column takes up the all of the remaining width. You can have up to 3 columns per page and you must have either 1 or 2 full columns. Example:
```yaml
pages:
- name: Home
columns:
- size: small
widgets: ...
- size: full
widgets: ...
- size: small
widgets: ...
```
### Properties
| Name | Type | Required |
| ---- | ---- | -------- |
| size | string | yes |
| widgets | array | no |
Here are some of the possible column configurations:
Used to change the appearance of the widget. Possible values are `vertical-list` and `horizontal-cards` where the former is intended to be used within a small column and the latter a full column. Below are previews of each style.
`vertical-list`
`horizontal-cards`
##### `feeds`
An array of RSS/atom feeds. The title can optionally be changed.
###### Properties for each feed
| Name | Type | Required | Default |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ------- |
| url | string | yes | |
| title | string | no | the title provided by the feed |
##### `limit`
The maximum number of articles to show.
##### `collapse-after`
How many articles are visible before the "SHOW MORE" button appears. Set to `-1` to never collapse.
### Videos
Display a list of the latest videos from specific YouTube channels.
> Reddit does not allow unauthorized API access from VPS IPs, if you're hosting Glance on a VPS you will get a 403 response. As a workaround you can route the traffic from Glance through a VPN.
Used to change the appearance of the widget. Possible values are `vertical-list`, `horizontal-cards` and `vertical-cards`. The first two were designed for full columns and the last for small columns.
How many posts are visible before the "SHOW MORE" button appears. Set to `-1` to never collapse. Not available when using the `vertical-cards` and `horizontal-cards` styles.
A custom request url that will be used to fetch the data instead. This is useful when you're hosting Glance on a VPS and Reddit is blocking the requests, and you want to route it through an HTTP proxy.
Placeholders:
`{REQUEST-URL}` - will be templated and replaced with the expanded request URL (i.e. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/hot.json). Example:
Each bar represents a 2 hour interval. The yellow background represents sunrise and sunset. The blue dots represent the times of the day where there is a high chance for precipitation. You can hover over the bars to view the exact temperature for that time.
The name of the city and country to fetch weather information for. Attempting to launch the applcation with an invalid location will result in an error. You can use the [gecoding API page](https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/geocoding-api) to search for your specific location. Glance will use the first result from the list if there are multiple.
Display a list of sites and whether they are reachable (online) or not. This is determined by sending a HEAD request to the specified URL, if the response is 200 then the site is OK. The time it took to receive a response is also shown in milliseconds.
Example:
```yaml
- type: monitor
cache: 1m
title: Services
sites:
- title: Jellyfin
url: https://jellyfin.yourdomain.com
icon: /assets/jellyfin-logo.png
- title: Gitea
url: https://gitea.yourdomain.com
icon: /assets/gitea-logo.png
- title: Immich
url: https://immich.yourdomain.com
icon: /assets/immich-logo.png
- title: AdGuard Home
url: https://adguard.yourdomain.com
icon: /assets/adguard-logo.png
- title: Vaultwarden
url: https://vault.yourdomain.com
icon: /assets/vaultwarden-logo.png
```
Preview:
You can hover over the "ERROR" text to view more information.
The URL which will be requested and its response will determine the status of the site. Optionally, you can specify this using an environment variable with the syntax `${VARIABLE_NAME}`.
Display a list of releases for specific repositories on Github. Draft releases and prereleases will not be shown.
Example:
```yaml
- type: releases
repositories:
- immich-app/immich
- go-gitea/gitea
- dani-garcia/vaultwarden
- jellyfin/jellyfin
```
Preview:
#### Properties
| Name | Type | Required | Default |
| ---- | ---- | -------- | ------- |
| repositories | array | yes | |
| token | string | no | |
| limit | integer | no | 10 |
| collapse-after | integer | no | 5 |
##### `repositories`
A list of repositores for which to fetch the latest release for. Only the name/repo is required, not the full URL.
##### `token`
Without authentication Github allows for up to 60 requests per hour. You can easily exceed this limit and start seeing errors if you're tracking lots of repositories or your cache time is low. To circumvent this you can [create a read only token from your Github account](https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new) and provide it here.
You can also specify the value for this token through an ENV variable using the syntax `${GITHUB_TOKEN}` where `GITHUB_TOKEN` is the name of the variable that holds the token. If you've installed Glance through docker you can specify the token in your docker-compose:
```yaml
services:
glance:
image: glanceapp/glance
environment:
- GITHUB_TOKEN: <yourtoken>
```
and then use it in your `glance.yml` like this:
```yaml
- type: releases
token: ${GITHUB_TOKEN}
repositories: ...
```
This way you can safely check your `glance.yml` in version control without exposing the token.
##### `limit`
The maximum number of releases to show.
#### `collapse-after`
How many releases are visible before the "SHOW MORE" button appears. Set to `-1` to never collapse.
### Bookmarks
Display a list of links which can be grouped.
Example:
```yaml
- type: bookmarks
groups:
- links:
- title: Gmail
url: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/
- title: Amazon
url: https://www.amazon.com/
- title: Github
url: https://github.com/
- title: Wikipedia
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/
- title: Entertainment
color: 10 70 50
links:
- title: Netflix
url: https://www.netflix.com/
- title: Disney+
url: https://www.disneyplus.com/
- title: YouTube
url: https://www.youtube.com/
- title: Prime Video
url: https://www.primevideo.com/
- title: Social
color: 200 50 50
links:
- title: Reddit
url: https://www.reddit.com/
- title: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/
- title: Instagram
url: https://www.instagram.com/
```
Preview:
#### Properties
| Name | Type | Required |
| ---- | ---- | -------- |
| groups | array | yes |
##### `groups`
An array of groups which can optionally have a title and a custom color.
URL pointing to an image. You can also directly use [Simple Icons](https://simpleicons.org/) via a `si:` prefix:
```yaml
icon: si:gmail
icon: si:youtube
icon: si:reddit
```
> [!WARNING]
>
> Simple Icons are loaded externally and are hosted on `cdnjs.cloudflare.com`, if you do not wish to depend on a 3rd party you are free to download the icons individually and host them locally.
`same-tab`
Whether to open the link in the same tab or a new one.
By default the stocks are displayed in the order they were defined. You can customize their ordering by setting the `sort-by` property to `absolute-change` for descending order based on the stock's absolute price change.
