Freeboard is an open source IoT dashboard that offers users an intuitive interface to monitor and visualize data from different sources. In order to install the Freeboard dashboard on the latest version of nixOS, you need to follow the instructions outlined below:
Before you can install Freeboard, you need to ensure that Nix package manager is installed on your system. To install Nix on nixOS, run the following command:
$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix
Next, you need to clone the Freeboard repository from GitHub. This can be accomplished by running the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/Freeboard/freeboard.git
In order to build Freeboard, you need to navigate into the directory where it was cloned using the terminal. Once you are there, run the following commands:
$ nix-shell
$ npm install
$ grunt
The first command will open a shell in which you can build Freeboard. The second command installs the necessary dependencies for building Freeboard. The third command builds the final version of Freeboard.
After building Freeboard, you can start it up by running the following command:
$ npm start
This command should open up Freeboard in your default browser, allowing you to configure and use it as needed.
That's it! By following these simple steps, you can install Freeboard on nixOS latest and start using its intuitive dashboard to monitor and visualize data from IoT sources.
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