HN: Xenon, open source dashboard for a second screen, tablet or phone

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Xenon: turn any second screen into your PC's control center

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Xeneon Edge<br>2560×720 · 14,5"

Monitor<br>1920×1080 · 27"

Laptop<br>1600×900 · 15,6"

Tablet<br>1180×820 · 11"

Phone<br>390×844 · 6,1"

2560 × 720

Open the demo

What it does

Seven of the areas it covers; the full list of widgets is further down.

Xenon AI

Say "Hey Xenon" and it answers, through Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude, or through Ollama on the same PC.

Deck

A grid of programmable keys that open apps, switch OBS scenes, send hotkeys and webhooks, or drive Discord voice and Spotify.

Monitoring

CPU, GPU, RAM, network and the real in-game frame rate, kept for thirty days.

Search

Pull the top bar down and type the way you would say it, like "photos from december", and it searches an index that lives on your own disk.

Disk space

Open a drive and the map is already drawn, because the index behind it is kept current in the background instead of rebuilt on demand. Cleanup proposes only what is on a fixed list of caches and temporary files, and what it removes goes to the Recycle Bin.

Bit

Vitals watches hydration, focus and posture, but only if you switch it on, and Bit is the pixel pet that keeps asking until you take the break.

Lighting

Hue, WLED, Govee, LIFX, Nanoleaf and your CORSAIR gear, driven by CPU temperature, album art or a timer running out.

Widgets

Productivity

Agenda

Calendar

Tasks

Timer

Notes

Weather

Search

File transfer

Stocks

Football

News

Notifications

Vitals

System

System

Fans

Energy

Batteries

Disk space

Volume

Microphone

Second screen

Remote Control

Smart Home

Cameras

Lighting

Claude Code

Streaming

Twitch Live

Twitch

YouTube

YouTube Live

OBS

Discord

Spotify

Streamer.bot

Wave Link

Deck

Media

Playback

Chat

Browser

Slideshow

Media & now playing<br>Calendar & ICS sync<br>Twitch & OBS<br>Discord voice<br>Markets & charts<br>Football, live<br>News stream<br>Weather<br>Spotify player<br>Widget SDK<br>App switcher<br>Sensor history<br>Search, in your words<br>What is taking the space<br>Protected cleanup<br>Files from your phone<br>Tiles with a shape<br>Share what you built

See the full list of what's in there

From the catalog

Themes, backgrounds, widgets and whole packs made by other users. Copy a code, paste it into Xenon and it is applied.

Nova Neon District, from the catalog, on a Xeneon Edge.

Sakura Themeby spamer7777-lgtm

Tranquility Backgroundby spamer7777-lgtm

Limnograph Packageby Xenon

Kintsugi Packageby Xenon

Forest Themeby Domi

Cats Backgroundby spamer7777-lgtm

Browse the catalog<br>Share your creation

Installing

One installer, which sets up the app, the dashboard engine behind it and the task that starts them at login.

Platform<br>File<br>Requirements<br>More

WindowsYour OS<br>Windows installer<br>Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Installs the app and starts it at login.<br>All files for this release

macOSBetaYour OS<br>Mac Universal<br>macOS 11 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel in one file.<br>What beta means here

LinuxBetaYour OS<br>AppImage (x86_64)<br>Any x86_64 desktop. GNOME and KDE are the two it is tested on.<br>.deb·What beta means here

macOS and Linux are in beta. The dashboard, the widgets, the Store and the integrations are the same everywhere; what still differs is the part that reads your machine, and the README table says exactly what works where.

Windows blocked the download, or called it a virus? That is a false positive: the build is not code-signed yet, so it starts from zero reputation. The FAQ explains how to check the file's hash yourself, and how to get it back.

You are on a phone right now.<br>Xenon installs on the PC it monitors, so start there. Then this screen becomes one of its panels: scan the pairing QR from the PC, or send yourself this link.

See how

Using iCUE instead of the native app? Add a Web page (HTML) widget and paste this to embed the dashboard full-screen:

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Supporters

The project has no ads, no investors and no paid version. It is funded by the people listed here.

Buy me a coffee<br>Xenon is written by one person.

xenon from screen open dashboard phone

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