I built a Raspberry Pi Pico status display for monitoring devices at a glance
I’ve just open-sourced ViviPi, a compact Raspberry Pi Pico-based health display.
It is a tiny always-on status board for checking whether devices and services are reachable, degraded, or down without opening dashboards, SSH sessions, or logs.
I originally built it to monitor my Commodore 64 Ultimate / Ultimate 64 network listeners, but it is general enough for other small-device setups too.
Current support includes:
- PING
- IDENT
- DMA (C64-specific)
- TELNET
- FTP
- HTTP
- Optional host-side checks
The host-side checks mean the sky is the limit. In my setup, I use them to monitor that a Pixel 4 Android device onto which I deploy is accessible from my main dev machine.
It runs on a Pico with a small display and is intended to feel more like a small monitoring appliance than another web dashboard.
GitHub: https://github.com/chrisgleissner/vivipi
Feedback from Pico users would be very welcome, especially around display support and useful probe types.