# Dashboard · Hearth

A home-energy screen for a house, not an ops room: the headline says what the house is doing, three big readouts, the ground floor drawn as a plan of circuits with their switches and a room gauge, the day on the chart recorder, the battery and tonight’s rules. Loading, no-hub, error and hub-updating states included.

Template · With the Kit · https://tactileui.dev/templates/dashboard

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## Anatomy

- [Bar](https://tactileui.dev/parts/bar): The top of a page: a wordmark with a lamp, printed links, and one contrast key at most.
- [Selector](https://tactileui.dev/parts/selector): One mode of two to five: latching keys in a tray, one down at a time, each with a lamp that lights when chosen.
- [Readout](https://tactileui.dev/parts/readout): A printed label over a value: key figures, with the unit small and the change in words.
- [Status](https://tactileui.dev/parts/status): A lamp with words: the state line in tables, panel heads and lists. The words carry the meaning; the lamp is the glance.
- [Needle gauge](https://tactileui.dev/parts/gauge): A moving-coil panel meter: a printed scale under glass, a thin needle that swings past the mark and settles, a lamp for the bands and a small LCD for the exact reading.
- [LCD](https://tactileui.dev/parts/lcd): A value that changes, on grey-green liquid crystal, with a ghost of the unlit segments behind it: clocks, battery, counters.
- [Ladder](https://tactileui.dev/parts/ladder): An LED ladder for levels and load: green, then amber, then red, the way a recording level has always been read.
- [Lamp](https://tactileui.dev/parts/lamp): The only colour in the kit: a lamp that is on. Green is on, amber is waiting, red is recording or failing, blue is linked, white is standing by. Always next to words.
- [Panel](https://tactileui.dev/parts/panel): A face plate that groups what belongs together: a head, a rule, then the parts. Screws only on device-like panels.
- [Tray](https://tactileui.dev/parts/tray): A recess cut into the plate that holds other parts: keys, a selector, an empty state waiting for its first thing.
- [Switch](https://tactileui.dev/parts/switch): On or off, applied the moment it moves. A native checkbox with a ridged thumb in a slot that lights green when on.
- [Tabs](https://tactileui.dev/parts/tabs): Views of the same thing, switched in place: keys in a tray, the chosen view a raised cap.
- [Key](https://tactileui.dev/parts/key): Every button, and every link that acts like one: a cap on a skirt that drops below the plate when pressed.
- [Chart recorder](https://tactileui.dev/parts/recorder): A strip-chart recorder: gridded paper advancing under a pen that rides a rail, drawing the live value as the paper moves and printing the time in the margin. For p95 latency, tokens per second, grid frequency, a cold room’s log.
- [LED bar chart](https://tactileui.dev/parts/ledbars): A bar chart built like a studio meter bridge: columns of LED segments behind a smoked window, green then amber then red, with a peak segment that lingers and a lit readout for the exact value.
- [Knob](https://tactileui.dev/parts/knob): A rotary control for continuous or stepped values where space is square. Its knurl and pointer turn; its light does not.
- [Skeleton](https://tactileui.dev/parts/skeleton): The shape of a page before its data arrives, drawn as the unprinted plate: blank engraved bars where the words will print. Nothing on it moves. One amber lamp beside “Loading” is the only sign of work.
- [Empty state](https://tactileui.dev/parts/empty-state): What a view shows before it has anything: an empty tray with the outline of what goes in it printed on its floor, one sentence and one key.
- [Alert](https://tactileui.dev/parts/alert): A message let into the surface, with an annunciator: a small lit legend (Note, Done, Check, Fault) beside the words that say what happened.

## Usage notes

A slim bar with the address and the finish · a display headline beside three big printed readouts · the floor plan: circuits as trays in a panel, each with a switch, a reading and a lamp, one room with a gauge · the day on a recorder in a panel with period tabs · the battery (LCD, ladder, a knob for the reserve, a selector for the mode) beside tonight’s rules as switches · a key at the foot that shows the other states (?state=).