DAKboard + Apple Health
DAKboard's most-requested feature, finally.
Your family's Apple Health on your wall display — activity rings, steps, sleep, vitals, and a daily challenge. DAKboard owners have asked for this for years. DejaView finally makes it possible.
DejaView is free and streams your photos today — the Apple Health cards are in private beta now, shipping to everyone soon.
Why DAKboard can't
It's not that they won't — Apple won't let them.
DAKboard is a web dashboard — it renders in a browser. Apple deliberately walls off Health data (HealthKit) so that only native apps, with permission you explicitly grant, can read it. A web page has no door in. That's why “show my Apple Health” is a long-standing request DAKboard structurally can't fulfill.
DejaView is a native macOS app. Each person's iPhone pushes their health snapshot to your Mac over your local network, and the Mac renders the cards and serves them — the same way it serves your photos — to any display that can load a URL, DAKboard included. Same wall, same screen, now with your rings.
On your display
A whole family's health, at a glance.
Activity rings
Move, Exercise, and Stand — the real Apple Watch rings, full-size on the wall. (Derived sources get their own honest visualization, never faked as Apple's.)
Steps & exercise
Daily step counts and exercise minutes, pulled straight from Apple Health.
Vitals
Resting heart rate, heart-rate variability (HRV), respiratory rate, and blood oxygen — with the source and freshness labelled.
Sleep
Last night's sleep duration from Apple Health, plus a sleep score when an Oura or Garmin supplies one.
Family & leaderboards
Everyone in the household, color-coded. Each person's iPhone pushes their own data, and the wall shows step and ring leaderboards across the family.
Daily challenge
An Apple Activity Competition-style score — who's closing their rings, who's ahead this week — on the screen you already walk past every day.
Private by design
Health data is sensitive. Yours never leaves home.
Even more carefully than the photos: your Health data is read on your Mac (read-only, with permission), stored only on your Mac, and never written to iCloud or any external server. It travels from each iPhone to your Mac to your wall over your local network — and nowhere else.
Apple Health on DAKboard
Questions, answered.
Why can't DAKboard show my Apple Health itself?
DAKboard renders in a web browser, and Apple deliberately restricts Health (HealthKit) data to native apps you've explicitly granted permission. A web page has no way to read it. DejaView is a native macOS app, so with your permission it reads your Health data and serves it to any display — something a browser-based board structurally can't do.
What exactly can it display?
Apple activity rings (Move, Exercise, Stand), daily steps, exercise minutes, vitals (resting heart rate, HRV, respiratory rate, blood oxygen), last night's sleep, and a family challenge leaderboard. Pick a ready-made layout (Family Rings, Daily Challenge, a Bedside sleep-and-vitals card, or Everything) or build your own.
Does it work for the whole family?
Yes — that's the point. Each family member's iPhone pushes their own health snapshot to your Mac over your network, color-coded per person, so the wall can show everyone's rings side by side and rank the household on steps or ring completion.
Which devices does it read from?
Apple Watch and iPhone primarily. It can also use data other trackers write to Apple Health (Oura, Garmin, etc.), shown with honest provenance labels. Authentic Apple ring artwork is only ever used for genuine Apple Watch data; other sources get DejaView's own visualization so nothing is misrepresented.
Is my health data private?
Yes — even more carefully than the photos. Health data is read on your Mac (read-only, with permission), stored only on your Mac, and never written to iCloud or any external server. It travels from each iPhone to your Mac to your display over your local network, and nowhere else.
When can I get it?
The Apple Health cards are in private beta right now and ship to everyone in an upcoming release. DejaView itself is free on the Mac App Store and already streams your photos today — install it now and the Health cards arrive in an update.
Put your family's health on the wall.
The Apple Health cards are in private beta now and ship to everyone in an upcoming release. DejaView is free on the Mac App Store and streams your photos today.