Design button/macro dashboards on desktop, drive them from a mobile WebView client over your local network. Built for simpit/HOTAS panels, stream-deck style macro boards, and DCS World cockpit exports.
See docs/USER_MANUAL.md for how to use the app, docs/FAQ.md for common questions, docs/EXAMPLES.md for example decks to import, or docs/CONTRIBUTING.md for the codebase layout and plugin-authoring walkthrough.
This project was built almost entirely with Claude. I had a lot of ideas for what a better dashboard/macro editor could look like, but not the time to build it all myself — so I used my own software engineering background (Node.js) to guide the design and test every step along the way, rather than writing most of the code by hand.
Boarderoni works and is actively used, but it's pre-1.0 and under active development:
- The dashboard file format can still change between versions (a migration path is kept for existing saves, but always back up a deck you care about before updating).
- Windows only for now — several plugins (Windows Audio, some DCS-BIOS/ input pieces) depend on Windows-specific native modules; other platforms aren't tested and may not work at all. Testing so far has only been done on Windows 11 — other Windows versions are untested, not confirmed working.
- No auto-update yet — you'll need to grab new installers manually from Releases for now.
- Expect rough edges, and please open an issue if you hit one.
- Visual editor — drag/drop/resize/rotate widgets, multi-select, grouping, undo/redo, snap-to-grid, a live debug console for expression output.
- 15 widget types — Button, Morph Button, Bar Gauge, Arc Gauge, Adjuster Slider, Adjuster Knob, Encoder, Rocker Switch, Dial Switch, Toggle Switch, Dropdown, Screen Capture, DCS Viewport, Label, Line.
- Custom widget variants — save your own styled widget (or multi-widget group) as a reusable preset, alongside a set of built-in aircraft-panel- style presets.
- Expressions everywhere — nearly every visual property (color, text, position, value, active state, ...) can be a small JS expression reading live variables instead of a fixed value.
- Global actions — deck-wide if/then rules that fire on their own when a watched variable changes, with no widget and no connected device involved.
- Custom fonts, multiple screens per deck (sub-decks) with in-editor navigation, and a live variables system synced in real time to every connected device.
- Mobile companion app — an Android WebView client (source in
android/) that pairs with the desktop over your local network (mDNS auto-discovery, per-device approval), no cloud/account required. Not on the Play Store — build it yourself with the Gradle wrapper inandroid/or download it from the Releases page. - AI agents (MCP) — a built-in, token-protected MCP server lets an AI agent build and drive your decks for you. As a side effect it's also a DCS-BIOS MCP server: an agent can read live cockpit state and flip switches in DCS World. See the manual.
- Plugins (event sources + actions):
- DCS-BIOS — read/write DCS World cockpit state over its UDP export.
- DCS Viewports — multi-monitor MFCD/cockpit display export.
- Windows Audio — device and per-application volume/mute, on a dedicated worker thread so it never blocks the UI.
- Screen Capture + OCR — stream or poll a screen region, optionally recognizing text/numbers from it.
- REST Data Sources — poll or receive from any HTTP API.
- Date & Time — clock/calendar values for labels and expressions.
PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 — free to use, modify, and share for any noncommercial purpose (personal, hobby, research, nonprofit/educational/ government use). Commercial use requires a separate arrangement with the copyright holder.
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