# Chillbox: SSH Server Monitor — Homelab, Pi, Proxmox, no agent

> Homelab, Pi, Proxmox, no agent (iPhone/iPad app by GUSTAVO MARTIN ORTEGA MARMENTI.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chillbox-ssh-server-monitor/id6766273901 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [GUSTAVO MARTIN ORTEGA MARMENTI](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896262097)
- Category: Utilities, Developer Tools
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 15 MB
- Languages: American English, German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2026-05-06
- Data updated: 2026-09-22
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chillbox-ssh-server-monitor/id6766273901/reviews.md

## What is Chillbox?

Your server tells you what is wrong. Chillbox is the app that listens.

It connects straight over SSH - no agent to install on the machine, no account, no cloud in the middle, no telemetry. Your credentials never leave your phone.

WHAT IT WATCHES
CPU, memory, disk, network and uptime, live, each on an instrument built for that reading rather than a generic card. Temperature and throttling when the machine has sensors. Load average, per-core usage, disk I/O. It refreshes in the background and raises alerts locally, on your phone, not through anyone's cloud.

WHAT IT RECOGNIZES
Pi-hole, AdGuard Home, Home Assistant, Plex, Jellyfin, Node-RED, Mosquitto, Zigbee2MQTT, OctoPrint, Portainer, Uptime Kuma, Frigate, Syncthing, Grafana, Transmission and Tailscale. It finds them on its own, tells you which are running and which are only pretending to, and knows the difference between a service you stopped and one that died.

PROXMOX
Virtual machines and LXC containers, start and stop from the phone. A machine set to start with the server but sitting off gets flagged. LXC containers open a terminal already inside them. And when a VM stops booting, SSH into it is dead by definition; the console still works, because it travels over an SSH channel of its own. No tunnel, no open port.

ADMIN PANELS, NO TUNNEL RITUAL
Chillbox knows what runs on each machine, so it builds the SSH tunnel itself and opens Pi-hole, Uptime Kuma, Portainer and eleven more inside the app. No local port, no remote host, nothing to type. The button only appears when the port is actually listening, even when the container claims to be up.

ZFS POOLS
Degraded pools, failed disks, pools running out of space, and fragmentation, the one reading df cannot give you. A machine without ZFS does not report zero healthy pools; it says the check does not apply.

ONE VERDICT FOR THE FLEET
A single line above the server list, and the servers grouped by what they need from you. A server that cannot be reached sits with the critical ones, never with the healthy. Up to four servers refresh in parallel, and opening one no longer disconnects the rest.

DOCKER, SYSTEMD AND HOMEBREW
Start, stop and restart containers and units from your phone. On a Mac it reads Homebrew services instead of systemd units, and asks launchctl whether each one is actually running rather than trusting what Homebrew declares. Read logs without opening a terminal, and open one when you want to.

FILES AND KEYS
Browse the machine's files over SFTP, read a config without opening a terminal, and manage your SSH keys in the app.

NO SCORE
The assessment screen refuses to give your server a score, because any single number that sums one critical and four warnings misorders some pair of them. Instead: nine categories, only the one that hurts lit up, findings ranked worst first, and the exact command for each. Checks that cannot run on your machine say so instead of quietly passing.

TRY IT WITHOUT A SERVER
A demo server ships in the app: 24 hours of history and a read-only SFTP browser, all invented data and labelled as such. Walk every screen before you point the app at a real machine.

WORKS ON A PI, ON LINUX, AND ON A MAC
A Raspberry Pi, a VPS, a NAS, a Proxmox container, an old laptop, a Mac mini running as a server. It asks each machine what it can report and shows only that: no empty cards, no invented zeros, no number it did not measure. macOS exposes no temperature, disk I/O or CPU frequency over SSH, so the app says that on screen instead of leaving a gap you have to interpret.

Chillbox is the new name for Fusebox. Same app, same developer, same promise.

One purchase, $7.99, forever. No subscription, no account, nothing recurring.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PiHelm Pro | $7.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.7.3 — 2026-09-21

Two things were slow. Both are fixed.

Opening a service's admin panel could stall for half a minute. The tunnel shared its channel budget with everything else on the connection, so a page that opens several connections at once ran out of slots and sat waiting on a keep-alive that had not expired yet. The tunnel now has a budget of its own. Measured against a real Pi-hole, the worst gap went from thirty seconds to a third of a second.

Connecting to a server left the dashboard empty for about five seconds before the first numbers arrived. Some readings need two samples to produce a rate, and the first read was waiting a full cycle for the second one. It now takes both samples in a single pass. The first numbers land in about a second.

### 1.7.2 — 2026-09-17

Housekeeping.

The rating prompt used to require an assessment with nothing wrong at all, so the only people it ever asked were the ones this app had found nothing for. That is backwards. A warning no longer stops it. A critical finding still does, because nobody staring at a failing disk wants to be asked for stars.

Nothing else changed.

### 1.7.1 — 2026-09-12

Connecting is faster. Identifying a machine used to take about ten seconds. A shell reading a script from a pipe won't run the last line until it sees a newline, and there wasn't one. There is now.

Almost everything else is the same kind of bug: the app said things it hadn't checked.

A Proxmox node was told Proxmox wasn't installed. qm and pct live in /usr/sbin, which isn't on a normal user's PATH, so the shell answered "command not found" and that got read as "not installed".

Categories reported OK when nothing had been read. A reading nobody took now says unknown.

A machine that hadn't been identified yet got described anyway. It stays quiet until it knows.

Swap was reported on FreeBSD boxes that don't have any.

A ZFS pool that's both filling up and fragmented now leads with the fragmentation, and says the word. It's the one number df can't show you.

The service panel viewer now shows which address you're actually on.

### 1.7.0 — 2026-09-08

Open a service's admin panel from inside the app. Chillbox already knows what runs on the machine, so it builds the SSH tunnel itself and opens Pi-hole, Uptime Kuma, Portainer and eleven more without you typing a single port number. The button does not appear if the port is not actually listening, even when the container is up.

Reach a VM that will not boot. The Proxmox console travels over its own SSH channel, so there is no tunnel to set up and no port to open. When a VM stops booting, SSH into it is dead by definition, and the console is the only door left.

Proxmox from the phone. Virtual machines and LXC containers, start and stop, and a warning when a machine set to start with the server is off. Containers open a terminal already inside them.

ZFS pool health. Degraded pools, failed disks, and fragmentation, which is the one you cannot get from df and the one that warns you before write performance falls apart. A machine without ZFS does not report zero healthy pools. It says the check does not apply.

A verdict over the whole fleet. One line at the top of the list, and the servers grouped by what they need from you. A server that could not be reached sits with the critical ones, never at the bottom with the healthy.

Several servers at once. Entering server B no longer disconnects you from A, and the list now refreshes up to four in parallel.

Fully translated into German, English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

And the part that took the longest: eight fixes that are all the same mistake. The app was drawing things as fine that it had never managed to verify. A Proxmox host told it was not running Proxmox. A server that had gone offline still wearing its green check. Now it says what it does not know.

### 1.6.0 — 2026-09-07

Fusebox is now Chillbox. Same app, same developer, same one-time purchase. Only the name changed, and everything you set up stays exactly where it was.

The name is the point of the redesign. Chill is what you should feel when you look at your servers: a surface quiet enough to read in two seconds from the sofa, and nothing on it that you did not ask for. Box is what you are actually holding. Under every calm screen there is a real terminal, a real file browser and a real process list, so when something is wrong you fix it at the lowest level without leaving your phone. Calm on top, root underneath.

The rest of 1.6.0:

- Every screen redesigned, and a new icon: a trace that swings once and then settles.
- The letter grade is gone. It could tell you that one unresolved critical finding looked better than four warnings. In its place, a severity compass: nine categories, and only the one that hurts lights up.
- Each metric now has an instrument built for what it measures, instead of eleven identical cards.
- A demo server, so you can walk through the whole app without owning a server: 24 hours of history and a read-only SFTP browser, all invented data and labelled as such.
- New: a file browser over SFTP, and SSH key management.

As always: no agent on the server, no account, no cloud, no telemetry.

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