One dashboard to rule them all: Introducing Virtual Channels

telemetryapp.com

12 points·mtabini··5 comments

I've been holding my breath for one of these dashboard services to offer native chromecast support. None of this tab casting stuff but actual chromecast support. Then it would be super cheap to put a bunch of these dashboards around the office.

We've been testing the Chromecast, its hard because it's a fairly limited device. However we do have things working on an iPod Touch which works quite nicely taped to the back of the TV. We're going to continue to work on optimizing the Chromecast and will do a posting if/when we get acceptable performance.

Looks really cool, but how does this differ from Dashing?

Founder here, they're quite different in a number of ways:

- Telemetry is obviously a SAAS, not something you host yourself.

- Telemetry is real time and incorporates a push system that exposes an API where updates are immediately pushed to the dashboards.

- Telemetry has native apps on OSX, IOS and Windows

- Telemetry is drag and drop for arranging your visualization

- Telemetry supports the separation of the data and presentation layer as this blog post discusses.

- Telemetry has a much wider array of visualizations.

- Telemetry has 'viewers' allowing you to remotely control who can see what

- Telemetry's dashboards scale to any size dynamically

- Telemetry supports embedding individual widgets in a web page

- Telemetry has a number of integrations with third parties.

Sounds great! I like the fact that you have native apps I sometimes feel they are underrated. And size scaling is something that Dashing has to get better at.

Definitely going to take a look at it with a developer account.

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