Max the Raspberry Pi
Track real-time hardware metrics and power consumption for your Raspberry Pi from a single dashboard
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What is Max the Raspberry Pi?
Max Emilian the Pi is a personal Raspberry Pi server dashboard that provides real-time monitoring of hardware and system metrics. The dashboard displays CPU usage and load across all cores, system information including platform, CPU clock, memory usage, swap, and temperature, power consumption and cost tracking, storage and I/O statistics with NVMe storage monitoring, network receive/send speeds and link speed, and Redis server metrics including memory, hit rate, and operations per second.
Key features include an uptime tracker showing how long the Pi has been running, a diary section where the Pi "writes" personal entries about its daily activities and system events in a creative first-person narrative, and an adventure game where an AI player explores a virtual world collecting items, visiting rooms, making friends, and consuming apples for energy. The dashboard also shows application metrics like goroutines, WebSocket clients, SSE clients, and heap allocation.
This tool is for Raspberry Pi owners who want to monitor their home server's performance and resource usage through a web interface. It appeals to hobbyists, self-hosters, and makers who run services on their Pi and want visibility into CPU, memory, storage, network, and power metrics. The creative diary and adventure game features also make it entertaining for anyone interested in seeing a Raspberry Pi presented with personality and imagination.
Max the Raspberry Pi pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Free - This is a personal Raspberry Pi dashboard running on the user's own hardware with no paid tiers or subscription plans mentioned on the website.
Max the Raspberry Pi pros
- Real-time CPU usage monitoring across all 4 cores
- Tracks power consumption in watts and calculates daily cost in euros
- Displays system temperature with historical peak tracking
- Monitors memory usage with exact MB/GB breakdown
- Shows NVMe storage usage with visual progress indicator
- Live network speed monitoring for both upload and download
- Redis metrics including hit rate and operations per second
- Uptime tracker showing days, hours, and minutes
- Creative diary entries written from the Pi's personified perspective
- Adventure game with AI player exploring virtual world
- Tracks adventure statistics like steps, rooms, items, friends, apples
- Shows application metrics including goroutines and heap allocation
- Connects WebSocket and SSE clients for real-time updates
- Runs on Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit with 1.50 GHz CPU clock
- Web-based dashboard accessible from any browser
Max the Raspberry Pi cons
- Only monitors a single Raspberry Pi, not multiple devices
- Diary entries are auto-generated personification, not actual logs
- Adventure game appears to be entertainment only, not functional
- No visible user authentication or access control mentioned
- Limited to Raspberry Pi hardware specifically
- No export or alerting features for metrics
- Cost tracking only shows euros, limited currency options
- No historical charts or trend visualization for metrics
Frequently asked questions about Max the Raspberry Pi
What is Max Emilian the Pi?
Max Emilian the Pi is a personal Raspberry Pi server that runs a web dashboard displaying real-time system metrics including CPU usage, memory, storage, network, power consumption, and Redis stats. It also features a creative diary where the Pi writes personified entries about its activities and an adventure game with an AI player.
What hardware does this dashboard monitor?
The dashboard monitors a Raspberry Pi running Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) with a 1.50 GHz CPU, 15.84GB total memory, 2GB swap, and NVMe storage of 937.33GB total capacity.
How does the power cost tracking work?
The dashboard displays current power consumption in watts (showing 2.54W) and calculates today's cost in euros based on power usage, currently showing €0.0055 for the day.
What does the diary feature do?
The diary section contains creative entries written from the Pi's first-person perspective, describing daily system activities, user visits, CPU workload, temperature peaks, network spikes, and the Pi's thoughts about helping users and running services.
What is the adventure game about?
The adventure game features an AI player controlled by the Pi that explores a virtual world. It tracks steps taken, rooms visited, items collected, friends made, and apples consumed for energy. The game has mysteries to uncover and hidden resources to discover.
What Redis metrics are displayed?
The dashboard shows Redis memory usage (5.29MB), hit rate (99.9%), operations per second (17), active connections (9), and the last RDB save time (29s ago) with RDB size of 1.39MB.
How is CPU load displayed?
CPU load is shown as overall usage (1.0%) plus individual core usage for all 4 cores (Core 0: 0.0%, Core 1: 2.0%, Core 2: 1.0%, Core 3: 0.0%), along with 1-minute, 5-minute, and 15-minute load averages.
What network information is available?
The dashboard displays receive speed (29.35KB/s), send speed (33.68KB/s), and link speed (1.0 Gbps) for the network connection.
What application metrics are tracked?
Application metrics include goroutines count (21), WebSocket clients (3), SSE clients (1), and heap allocation (3.00MB). These show the running application's resource usage.
Can I access this dashboard from my phone?
The dashboard is web-based and accessible through any browser on devices connected to the same network as the Raspberry Pi, including mobile phones, though specific responsive design details are not mentioned on the homepage.