# How Can Monitor All my Equipment in One in dashboard

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-monitor-all-my-equipment-in-one-in-dashboard/29202>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [30 June 2020 07:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-monitor-all-my-equipment-in-one-in-dashboard/29202 "2020-06-30T07:44:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![wtrk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@wtrk](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/wtrk)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2020 07:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-monitor-all-my-equipment-in-one-in-dashboard/29202/1 "2020-06-30T07:44:49Z")

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Hi everyone. Im monitoring to my PLC devices.  
As you see photo Im only see max 6 PLC devices. If I resize smaller and add soe more PLC device, it looks not good.  
Is it possible to make one page and if my PLC input or outputs gets error, I want to see a pop up for example " PLC 1 input 5 error " like this. Thanks for your advance.

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**Author:** ![Brew](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/brew/32/19776_2.png) [@Brew](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Brew)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2020 12:48 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-monitor-all-my-equipment-in-one-in-dashboard/29202/2 "2020-06-30T12:48:03Z")

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I think you've hit the limitations of this dashboard layout. You might need to look at alternate solutions or nest the detail as you have said with an error log.

Perhaps triggering helpful text strings if certain conditions are met and these being displayed on the table object?

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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2020 13:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-monitor-all-my-equipment-in-one-in-dashboard/29202/3 "2020-06-30T13:41:24Z")

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Indeed, you either have to shrink those widgets even smaller, or look to use multiple tabs (with maybe a summary screen with just he key information) or else as @brew suggests you maybe into custom dashboard mode... Possibly via node-red-contrib-uibuilder that lets you bring other ui frameworks to help build your own ui... Alternatively there is one also built on components - [https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-component-dashboard](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-component-dashboard) that is sort of in between in that you build it yourself - but there are pre-built components to help.

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**Author:** ![wtrk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@wtrk](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/wtrk)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2020 14:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-monitor-all-my-equipment-in-one-in-dashboard/29202/4 "2020-06-30T14:38:13Z")

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I will check you and brew suggestion, I didnt creeate my own dashboard before and no experience about it.  
thank you.

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**Author:** ![Christian-Me](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/christian-me/32/10774_2.png) [@Christian-Me](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Christian-Me)\
**Post date:** [30 June 2020 15:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-monitor-all-my-equipment-in-one-in-dashboard/29202/5 "2020-06-30T15:27:21Z")

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Perhaps a little bit advanced - but possible as all your devices giving the same datapoints:

- Collect all your data in a central function node.
- have a dropdown widget to select the device you like to inspect
- send the data to the widgets as you select a device via the dropdown
- Analyse the incoming data for problems and triger a notification
- switch to that device in case of an alarm

Or: use ui-table to present the data in one table - your gauges could be then be progress bar cells and alarms can be indicated by highlighting the background color of a row like I do in my remote device table for a (nearly) unlimited and dynamically generated list of devices.

> [@\[Announce\] remote device table (and collaboration wanted)](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/announce-remote-device-table-and-collaboration-wanted/22505):
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> Hello after a lot of work (perhaps too much work) I like to share my first beta version of a flow to display the status of remote devices on the dashboard. It is always good to have an eye on your sensors and actuators especially when they are connected wireless or battery powered. The flow first developed around my homie-convention-node but soon I decided to make it more versatile because I have devices around the house which not support the homie convention. [teaser] Currently supported are…

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [30 July 2020 15:27 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/how-can-monitor-all-my-equipment-in-one-in-dashboard/29202/6 "2020-07-30T15:27:27Z")

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