u/judyyhd

Hi guys!

I interned at a BMS company last summer and spent a good chunk of it doing user interviews, mostly around the company's own products but also BMS platforms in general. What I learned was that many dashboards are a source of information overload rather than clarity, which kind of defeats the purpose.

So I've been building a browser extension that reads the dashboard directly (HTML scraping, not API calls) and gives you an AI-generated read on what's going on instead of screenshotting a panel and pasting it into a chatbot and losing all the surrounding context. It can also pull together summary reports across dashboards you've already looked at.

I'm still deep in bug fixes and feature work, and the thing I need most right now is people who actually live in BMS dashboards all day telling me where it falls apart. Curious what this sub deals with day to day — what's the most useless thing your dashboard shows you? What would actually make your workflow easier if a tool like this got it right?

Happy to share more details or a link in the comments if anyone wants to poke at it.

Hi guys!

I was interning for a BMS company last summer and did some user interview and research, targeting mainly the company's products and platforms but also BMS as a whole. What I learned was that many dashboards are a source of information overload rather than clarity, which kind of defeats the purpose.

I decided to make an AI-based dashboard analysis tool to address this issue. After rounds of trial-and-error, I set on a browser extension which grabs information by html scraping rather than API calls. It beats screenshotting and asking a chatbot by being able to grab the entire dashboard and maintaining context. It can also generate summary reports based on previously analyzed dashboards.

I'm still actively working on bug fixes and new features, but the main issue I'm facing at this point is a lack of other sets of eyes, especially from people who are dealing with BMS all day every day. I was hoping that you guys could potentially give it a try and lmk if it actually improves your workflow, and if there's anything you'd like to see, or if there are any issues.

It is free and publicly available on chrome and edge extension store. Here's the website: seenzi.ai

Thank you so much, and I'm looking forward to your feedbacks!!

TL;DR: built a free browser extension that does AI analysis on BMS dashboards, looking for feedbacks

Hiya! My friends and I built a browser extension to take in a dashboard and return agentic AI analyses. It was initially a side project where I routed my dashboard to a backend agent chain, but it seems to be working really well so I expanded the scope. It theoretically works on every browser based dashboard because it reads what’s rendered on the page instead of accessing APIs. It was initially designed for Thingsboard, but I also tested it against Grafana dashboards.

At this point of the project though, it is very hard for us to spot additional bugs because we’ve been staring at it too long, and we have limited IoT devices to add to dashboards lol. We would really really appreciate it if the grafana community could test it on your own setups and let us know what works and what doesn’t. Here is the website: www.seenzi.ai

Thank you!

I thought having smart devices and dashboards would make it easier to figure out what's wrong, but it's honestly more work than it was before. I looked around but couldn't find a good solution out there, so I ended up vibe coding a Chrome extension that lets you select a region of any browser-based dashboard, runs it through AI, and gives you structured output. The screen grab works via iframe, so it should (theoretically) work with all web-based IoT dashboards.

I like how it's turned out, but I'm not sure it's meaningfully better than just screenshotting and asking ChatGPT, honestly. The main thing it adds is that your analysis history stays tied to specific dashboards, so you're not starting from zero each session.

Built it on and off over a couple months. If anyone wants to try it on their actual setup and tell me if it's actually useful, happy to share the link. Thanks for reading!

TL;DR: built a chrome extension, would be extremely grateful if someone could try it out and let me know what you think.