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The manual
panel runs a small machine at home: your router, a NAS for your files, the apps you host yourself, or all of them on one box. You run it from a web page that says how things are in plain words. Anything that could cut you off waits for you to keep it, and is undone if you don't.
This manual is for the person who installs panel and looks after it. The people who live with it only need the household page, which explains itself.
Where to start
- New to panel? Getting started says what it is, what it runs on, and what the first ten minutes look like.
- Installing: on a Raspberry Pi 4, a NanoPi R5S, a generic x86 PC from a USB stick, or a Debian machine you already have.
- Several boxes: Panels pairs them, shares accounts between them, and manages one from another; the relay joins boxes at other places.
- Finding your way around: The pages explains the menu, the drawers and the band at the top that asks you to keep a change.
What each page does
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Home | How things are, in a sentence and four tiles |
| Household | For the family: who is home, pausing the internet, schedules |
| Network | What every device is doing, the devices, the line |
| Firewall | What may come in, go out and pass through |
| DNS and DHCP | Names, blocking ads, and addresses for each device |
| Wi-Fi | The machine's own wireless network |
| VPN | Reaching home from elsewhere |
| NAS | Disks, mirrors and shared folders |
| Self-hosted | Jellyfin, Plex, Syncthing and TREK |
| Status | The machine: its disks, memory and checks |
| Activity | What happened, the logs and the audit trail |
| Accounts | Who may sign in, and what they may do |
| Modules | Choosing what the machine does |
| Maintenance | Updates, backups, its name and the relay |
| Panels | Several panels together |
The reference has the manual pages for the programs and for panel.conf.