What is felhaven?

Felhaven is a personal desktop dashboard that runs entirely on your own machine, with no database, server, or cloud service behind it. It is built on something the author calls the Metis Toolbox, a collection of about 30 small, independent modules where each one does exactly one job and does not know about the others. Felhaven displays those modules as panels in a windowed app, a component called Pythia answers questions in a home chat window, and another component called Calliope can read Pythia's answers aloud if you turn that on. Three shared pieces of infrastructure tie all the modules together without the modules depending on each other directly. One handles timing and background work so panels update on a schedule without freezing the interface. Another is a central registry of tools that Pythia can call, built automatically from the available modules, where errors are handled gracefully instead of crashing anything. A third owns the single audio output device that any module wanting to play sound goes through. The dashboard is organized into named views reached from a sidebar: a home chat view, a clock and calendar view, a settings and system-status view, a weather view, a star map view, a watchlist and holdings view protected by a PIN, a news feed reader, an audio playback view, and a utilities view with tasks, a calculator, and a unit converter. Two additional tools, a web search helper and a local Markdown note archive, are reachable only through the chat rather than through their own panel. To run it, you either double-click a batch file that starts a PIN-protected boot process, or run the main Python file directly to skip that gate. Settings like your location and units are configured through the app's settings tab, while things like RSS feeds, playlists, and a watchlist are configured by editing plain JSON files rather than code. Two optional API keys, for a financial data service and a search service, are stored in an encrypted local vault rather than in a plain environment file, every other network call uses a public, keyless endpoint, and missing keys or binaries degrade gracefully instead of crashing the app. This is a public snapshot of a larger personal project, released under the MIT license, so you can use, copy, modify, and redistribute it freely as long as you keep the copyright notice.