Rethinking homelab tools. Less complexity, more control.
A bare-metal admin deck with native Android companion app.
Full file manager. Task and Backup scheduling. Container control. Push alerts to your phone.
No Node.js. No React. No Docker. No database. No dependencies.
One Python file. 350KB. 20MB RAM.
Runs on your main server. Runs on a Pi Zero. Your call.
Links to your services, device status, system stats - all on one page. See CPU load, RAM usage, and temperatures for your host and remote machines.
Get notified when something goes wrong - even when you're not at home. The Android app monitors your homelab in the background and alerts you when a device goes offline, a container stops, or a backup fails.
Wall-mounted status display with BCD clock and CPU load visualization
Everything in Free, plus powerful automation and visualization features. Your purchase keeps this project alive as a full-time effort.
A dual-pane file manager that lets you browse, copy, and move files between any of your devices. Upload from your computer or smartphone, download to it - works from anywhere when you're on Tailscale.
Schedule Wake-on-LAN, shutdowns, Docker containers, and rsync backups. Wake your NAS at 3 AM, sync your data, shut it down - automatically.
Guided wizards walk you through each step. Browse folders visually with the built-in folder picker - no more typing paths from memory.
Install DeQ as a desktop app - no more hunting through browser tabs. One click in your dock or taskbar, and you're in. Works on macOS, Windows, Linux, and iPhone.
One click to enter edit mode. Add devices, links, containers, or tasks - delete what you don't need. No config files, no restarts. Works on desktop and mobile.
Full control over colors, transparency, and blur. Use the built-in color picker to match your wallpaper or go full glassmorphism with adjustable blur and opacity.
DeQ runs bare metal, not in Docker.
It's designed for low-power devices that are already online 24/7 - a Pi, a mini PC, even a WRT router. These give you always-on access to your homelab via Tailscale or LAN, without the overhead of a full server.
Docker would negate its own isolation benefits while adding overhead. To provide actual system control, a containerized DeQ would need host networking, Docker socket access, privileged mode, and volume mounts for every path - at that point, you're running a "container" with full host access anyway, just with extra steps.
DeQ stays up when everything else breaks.
When your Docker daemon crashes, when an update borks the container network, when Portainer can't reach its own backend - your containerized dashboard goes down with the ship. DeQ, running as a simple systemd service, is often still reachable when everything else is on fire.
Yes, it runs as root. Here's why that's okay.
The security model is "trusted tool on a trusted network." DeQ supports optional password protection, and we recommend running it behind a VPN (Tailscale, WireGuard). The code is auditable - all 350KB of it. A technically competent user can read exactly what DeQ does in an afternoon. Compare that to trusting a 200MB Docker image with layers of abstraction you'll never inspect.
Never expose DeQ to the public internet. Use Tailscale or WireGuard.
Three commands. That's all it takes.
Requires Python 3 and Linux with systemd.
wget https://github.com/deqrocks/deq/releases/latest/download/deq.zip
unzip deq.zip -d deq && cd deq
sudo ./install.shThe installer asks a few questions (IP, port) and gives you your access URL.