A modern, self-hosted dashboard for network and server management.
Helios is a powerful, open-source application designed to give you a comprehensive overview and control over your home network and servers. Built with a high-performance Rust backend and a responsive React frontend, Helios provides real-time network status, device discovery, and a framework for managing a wide array of services.
Whether you're a homelab enthusiast, a developer, or just someone who wants more insight into their network, Helios aims to be the central hub for all your device management needs.
Helios is built around a few core concepts to provide a powerful and user-friendly experience:
- Router API Integration: Helios monitors your network and automatically discovers devices connected to it by communicating with your router's API. This provides a real-time list of all connected hosts, which Helios then uses as a foundation for tracking and management.
- Manual Service Management: As a foundational starting point, users can manually define and track any service on any device, providing an immediate way to bring services under management.
- Agent-Based Configuration: The primary method for managing a service is through a lightweight Helios Agent. Helios provides a secure, one-line installation script to deploy the agent on a target machine for to control the managed service.
- On-Demand Service Discovery: Instead of noisy, constant network chatter, Helios empowers you to initiate a network scan on a specific device right from the UI, providing a safe and controlled way to find running services.
- Configurable Scan Depth & Asynchronous Reporting: Choose between Fast, Standard, and Deep scan modes to balance speed and thoroughness. All scans run as background jobs, and you can opt-in for an email notification upon completion.
Helios is built with modern, performant technologies:
- Backend: Rust with the Axum web framework and axum-distributed-routing library (currently in development).
- Frontend: React with Vite.
- Database: PostgreSQL with SQLx.
- Scanning Engine: Leverages the power of Nmap for network discovery.
Helios is currently under active development. You can follow our progress and see the breakdown of tasks on our GitHub Project Board.
Our high-level roadmap is broken down into the following major milestones:
- E1: Data Model & Manual Service Foundation (MVP)
- E2: Agent-Based Management
- E3: Core Scanning Engine
- E4: Advanced Scanning & Asynchronous UI
- E5: Notification System
Note: Installation instructions will be added here once the project reaches a more mature state.
Contributions are what make the open-source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.
If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement".
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
- Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
- Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
- Open a Pull Request
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.