Highland Cloud Forest Terrarium

Live Terrarium

Near-live view of the Node-RED control UI — a fresh snapshot every 15 minutes, plus a live-conditions strip on the Highland landing.

A headless Chromium on the Raspberry Pi captures the Node-RED control UI every 15 minutes and publishes the PNG over a Tailscale Funnel endpoint. That’s what’s rendering below — close enough to live for most purposes, without exposing the dashboard itself to the open internet (the UI has buttons that flip Tapo outlets; a picture is the right level of access for anyone who isn’t me).

For a faster read of what’s actually happening inside the cabinet, see the live conditions strip on the Highland landing: temperature, humidity, VPD and compressor state, polled every few seconds from a read-only JSON endpoint on the Pi.

If you’re on my tailnet, the interactive dashboard is one hop away too — the liveURL link opens it in Node-RED proper where setpoints and graphs are editable. Otherwise the image below refreshes on its own.

Waiting for first snapshot…
Open full control UI (Tailscale only)

If you're on the tailnet, the interactive Node-RED dashboard is at http://rei1.tail7cc014.ts.net:1880/ui/. Outside the tailnet this link won't resolve.