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A multi-use control platform for your computer.
Runs on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux
Your tools. Your space. Your control.
One launcher for your apps, media, dashboards, and smart home — on your computer or a
touchscreen. No hardware required to start.
From top: the grid launcher · a merged-tile Media grid · the flip-clock app · a Windy weather map and a Home Assistant dashboard — each with the optional knob's RGB ring lit a different color.
Start with software. Add hardware if you want to. A solid foundation for hands-on control.
Formerly open-quake — old links redirect here. Details under Origins.
Get started
- Download the current release for Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon), or Linux — or build from source.
- Launch Bedrock Panel — no hardware required. A first-run picker asks how you want to run it (see Ways to run it).
- Build your first page in the editor — tiles for apps, macros, and desktop actions — then Save. Add a compatible touchscreen or the Bedrock knob when you're ready.
What you can do
Launch & control
A multi-grid launcher puts every app, routine, and dashboard one tap away.
- Multi-grid launcher — each page is a grid of tiles; tap a tile — or click it
with your PC mouse — to open an app, URL, shell command, file, a system action
(lock screen), or jump to another Bedrock Panel page. Icons can be an emoji, the
program's own icon, or a custom image. → Editor
- Macros & routines — hotkey tiles and multi-step keystroke macros (AutoHotkey
optional), plus saved AI routines you re-run from a tile. → Macros · Routines
- Knob control (optional) — rotate for volume (or dashboard scroll), single-click to mute,
double-click for the page selector, and hold to talk (voice input). The
knob's RGB ring is configurable. → Settings
- Switching pages — the panel shows one page at a time: double-click the knob to open
the page selector, rotate to highlight a page, then press to switch. Bedrock Panel shows
this tip right on the panel the first time you launch it.
Dashboards & smart home
Build web-based dashboards and wire in Home Assistant — room controls, scenes, and
monitors live on the panel.
- Web dashboard pages — a page can be a live web view (Home Assistant, Grafana,
a status page…) shown full-screen; the knob scrolls, a tap clicks, logins persist,
with per-page auth (HA token, Basic, custom headers). → Dashboards
- Home Assistant integration — set your HA URL + long-lived token once in
Settings → Auth, and three things light up: a Home Assistant Dashboard app
(pick from your real dashboards in a dropdown, with optional kiosk-mode flags to hide
HA's header/sidebar), HA entity tiles (tap a tile to call a service on a light /
switch / media player / scene / automation / …, filtered by device type, room, label,
or favorites), and real MDI icons rendered live from jsDelivr so tiles look like HA
does. → Home Assistant
Everyday apps
Productivity and media from one surface.
- Bundled apps — a Flip Clock, a World Clock (US time zones or a pick of world
cities, digital or analog), a Music controller (now-playing +
transport + app grid), a Meeting app (one-tap mute/video/accept
/decline/leave for Zoom and Teams, plus recording — see below), a System Monitor (live
CPU/GPU/RAM/disk/network/battery), a Microsoft 365 panel (sign in with
your Microsoft account for live profile, presence, and upcoming-calendar view, plus up to
eight configurable app shortcuts and one-tap Join meeting), and AI Voice
— one app, five backends: a real Claude Code, Codex, or Copilot agent session on the
panel, or plain chat against your Open WebUI server or any OpenAI-compatible API
(OpenAI, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, LiteLLM/Ollama — your own key) — tap the knob to start/stop a
hands-free conversation, with touch approvals, a full text transcript, and switchable AI
profiles (Translator, Summarizer, Writer, … — editable instructions that reshape the AI in one
tap). → Apps
- Meeting recording → transcript → meeting notes — the Meeting app records your
calls (your mic on the left channel, everyone else on the right; can auto-start with
Zoom/Teams calls and auto-stop on silence), then — right from the panel — sends
recordings to a diarizing transcription server (tts-sst
or meeting-diarizer) for a speaker-labeled transcript, and turns transcripts into
(summary, attendees, decisions, action items, cleaned transcript)
with your locally installed — no API key — or your
own server (local models). With the
optional (classic Outlook, COM — no tokens), each
recording also captures its meeting's details (subject, organizer, attendees, join
link), which sharpens speaker identification (attendee-guided matching, plus your own
mic channel labeled with certainty) and can .
Filing options: per-date or , a separate clean
transcript, and a tidy layout. Multi-select queues and an on-panel notes
reader included. →
Customize & extend
Rebuild the panel with the PC-side editor, theme it your way, and pull in community apps
and wallpapers.
- A PC-side editor — build pages of tiles, merge adjacent tiles into larger buttons,
drag-and-drop to rearrange, then Save to push to the panel. → Editor
- Theming — a global light / dark / system mode and an accent color (with savable
presets) that drives the panel, the bundled apps, and the knob's RGB ring; web dashboards
follow the light/dark mode, and any page can override the theme in its Advanced settings.
→ Settings
- Community apps & wallpapers — browse and install shared drop-in apps straight from
Settings → Drop-In Apps, write your own, and pull screensaver wallpapers from the
community collection. → Apps & drop-ins · Community apps · Wallpapers
- Settings — choose how it launches, auto-rotate through pages on a timer, toggle
the mic, and tune the knob ring; plus a system-tray menu of quick toggles. → Settings
- Reserved Display (Windows, optional) — keep ordinary application windows from
settling on the panel display when your primary displays disconnect; automatically suspends
while using the display in Monitor mode. → Reserved Display
- Build your own — the Bedrock Console is
a complete DIY touchscreen console: off-the-shelf parts, a 3D-printed case, and an optional knob.
Ways to run it
- Desktop software — a Windows PC, an Apple Silicon Mac, or a Linux desktop is all you need. Install, launch, done.
- Compatible touchscreen — run the same software on a touchscreen display with compatible
dimensions (1920×480 page units) for the full hands-on experience.
- DIY Bedrock Console — a complete DIY build: 1920×480 touchscreen console with an optional
knob. Hardware, enclosure, and firmware are open source. → bedrock-console-hardware
Three run modes cover all of these: Software is a normal resizable desktop window (no
device required — every bundled app, dictation, meeting notes, and the agent panels are fully
usable with no hardware at all), Panel drives a compatible touchscreen full-screen, and
Monitor uses the touchscreen as an ordinary extra monitor. A first-run picker asks which
you want; switch anytime from Settings or the tray's Run mode menu. → Settings
Download
Grab a build from the Releases page:
bedrock-panel-portable.exe — Windows x64, run directly, no install.bedrock-panel-setup.exe — Windows x64 installer (Start-menu shortcut + uninstaller).bedrock-panel-arm64.dmg — macOS on Apple Silicon (macOS 14.2+), signed and notarized: knob,
touchscreen, Panel mode, Reserved Display, meeting recording with on-Mac transcription, and voice
through macOS's own speech. First-launch steps and permissions: docs/macos.md;
what is in the release: docs/releases/v0.9.6.md.bedrock-panel-arm64.zip — the same macOS app without the disk image.bedrock-panel_amd64.deb — Linux x64 for Debian and Ubuntu: knob, touchscreen, Panel mode,
and built-in speech that needs no server, no GPU, and no account — 90 voices in 36 languages, and
listening for dictation, meeting transcripts and the voice apps. Now playing reads MPRIS, so the
player your desktop shows is the one the Music page controls. The package installs a desktop
entry, pulls its own dependencies, and sets up device access for the knob and touchscreen itself.
First-launch steps and what is not available on Linux: docs/linux.md; what is in
the release: docs/releases/v0.9.6.md.bedrock-panel-x86_64.AppImage — the same Linux build, portable, no install. Needs FUSE 2,
which Ubuntu 24.04 and newer no longer ship — install libfuse2t64 or use the .deb.
The exe is code-signed (Azure Trusted Signing, publisher Thomas Schmitz) — so you see a
verified publisher, not "Unknown publisher." Windows SmartScreen may still show a "Windows
protected your PC" prompt on first download; that's reputation-based (it eases as a release
gains downloads), not a problem with the file. Confirm the publisher reads Thomas Schmitz,
then click More info → Run anyway. Config is stored in %APPDATA%\bedrock-panel; upgrading from an
open-quake install moves the old %APPDATA%\open-quake folder there automatically.
The macOS build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized, so it opens like any other Mac app —
drag it to Applications and launch it, with no Gatekeeper warning to click through. Config lives in
~/Library/Application Support/bedrock-panel. The Mac needs a few permissions (touchscreen, keystrokes,
recording): docs/macos.md lists each one and exactly where to grant it. Upgrading
from a v0.9.5-beta build: the signature changed, so re-add Bedrock Panel under Input Monitoring
and allow the keychain prompt once.
On Linux the packages are unsigned, because Linux has no equivalent gatekeeper to satisfy.
Config lives in ~/.config/bedrock-panel. The .deb installs the device-access rule for the knob
and touchscreen itself; with the AppImage the editor walks you through the one command that grants
it. Panel mode places its window through XWayland, since a Wayland client cannot position a window
on a chosen display, and the app relaunches itself onto X11 at startup and says so in the log.
Reserved Display and follow-the-focused-app are the two features Wayland does not permit at all —
they are greyed out with the reason beside them. Verified on Ubuntu 26.04 with KDE Plasma 6.6;
other desktops and distributions are expected to work and have not been exercised.
docs/linux.md covers first launch, device access, and the full list.
📖 Documentation
Detailed guides live in docs/:
Companion projects
Bedrock Console — an open-source
hardware project to build your own 1920×480 touchscreen + knob console for use with Bedrock Panel.
Generic parts, 3D-printable enclosure, RP2040 firmware for the knob. Firmware is built,
flashed, and verified against real hardware; enclosure parts are printable. Still early —
full assembly/wiring docs are in progress.
tts-stt-windows — local speech-to-text and
text-to-speech for Windows, served over the Wyoming protocol
on 127.0.0.1 with no Docker, no Python, no cloud, and no account. This is the easiest way to
power Bedrock Panel's voice features: run the tray app, point Settings → TTS/STT at 127.0.0.1,
and the AI Voice apps, meeting dictation, and the Interactive Fiction player's narration and spoken
commands all work — the default ports match (STT on 10300, TTS on 10200), so it connects out of
the box. A ~11 MB tray app that runs entirely on the CPU: 200+ Piper and Coqui voices plus Whisper /
Parakeet / SenseVoice / Moonshine / Dolphin speech models across 53 languages, all downloaded on
demand.
Community
Join the conversation on Discord, star the project, or
contribute — apps, themes, and dashboards are all community-built. Reproducible software issues go
in the issue tracker.
FAQ
- Can I use it without a touchscreen? Yes. Software mode runs on a Windows PC, a Linux desktop, or an Apple Silicon
Mac with no hardware at all. A touchscreen or knob adds the hands-on layer.
- Which computers does it run on? Windows, macOS on Apple Silicon (macOS 14.2 or newer), and
Linux on x64. All three run the knob, the touchscreen, and all three run modes. Reserved Display
and follow-the-focused-app are the exception: they work on Windows and macOS, and Wayland does not
permit them on Linux — see docs/linux.md.
- Does it need internet? The core launcher works offline. Some apps — AI voice, translation,
meeting transcription — need an internet connection.
- Is it free? Yes, it's free and open source. Nearly everything is MIT licensed; the QUAKE
driver is PolyForm Noncommercial (see Licensing).
- How do I get help? Start on Discord — the community and maintainers hang out there.
Origins, supported hardware, and licensing
Origins
Bedrock Panel grew out of the open-quake community project for the QUAKE panel — today it is a
standalone platform for any compatible setup. Old TeeJS/open-quake links redirect to this
repository, and installing over an open-quake install carries your config, logins, and drop-in
apps across.
Supported controllers
Nothing requires them, but these work as first-class controllers when present:
- DK-QUAKE / ARIS-68 — the 1920×480 touchscreen-plus-knob macro device (sold with the
closed-source DK-Suite app). Bedrock Panel talks to it directly over HID, with no vendor software
running: touch, knob (incl. RGB ring + hold-to-talk), the on-board mic, and page grids are all
validated against real hardware. The panel is driven as a normal external monitor (Windows sees a
480×1920 / 1920×480 display); pushing frames over the HID resource channel is not implemented.
→ Device protocol
- Bedrock knob — the open RP2040 knob from the Bedrock Console
project, driven through the same code path. → Building & how it works
Status: early but capable. Touch, knob, grids, merged buttons, web dashboards, the bundled
apps (clock / world clock / music / meeting / system monitor / AI chat / Microsoft 365 / AI Voice
(Claude Code · Codex · Copilot · Open WebUI · API) / LucidType / Live Translate / Screensaver),
the three run modes (panel / software / monitor), light/dark + accent theming, the on-board mic,
and the editor are working and validated against real hardware.
Licensing
Split-licensed — see NOTICE:
- MIT (LICENSE) — the launcher and editor (
app/), original work.
- PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 (src/LICENSE) — every file that
embeds the reverse-engineered protocol: the driver (
src/Aris68Connector.js),
the protocol notes (docs/DEVICE_PROTOCOL.md), and the two tools/ scripts.
The vendor described the comm protocol as restricted for commercial use; these
files are non-commercial only unless you obtain written commercial
permission from the protocol holders.
No vendor code, binaries, or API keys are included in this repository.
Safety
Aris68Connector.js knows the firmware-download (DFU) command but never sends
it. Do not call enterDfu() — it puts the device into firmware-flash mode
and can brick it. The write-test in tools/ only issues read-only query frames.
Disclaimer
Bedrock Panel is an independent third-party community project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, maintained by, verified by, certified by, or officially supported by DECOKEE. DK-Suite is the official software for DECOKEE Quake. Bedrock Panel is not an official open-source version of DK-Suite. Use of Bedrock Panel is at your own risk.
