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Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by fudged71 »

I think/hope the whole "home manager" category is going to take off soon.

On a cost basis, it no longer makes sense--practically--not to use visual/text/audio intelligence to manage such a large asset. We just don't have the user-friendly mass-market interfaces for it just yet.

It's possible to scan every manual, every insurance policy, ingest every local bylaw. It's possible to take a video of your home and transform it into a semantically segmented Gsplat of [nearly] everything you own. It's possible to do sensor fusion of all the outward facing cameras from your home. And obviously agents like OpenClaw can decide what to do with all of this (inventory, security, optimization, etc).

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#12

Post by wolvoleo »

Thinking of this it would be amazing to have a TUI for home assistant. It's already so good at doing all the nuts and bolts of control and interacting with everything. But its UI is super heavy loaded JavaScript. It doesn't run well on old tablets either for this reason, sadly.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#13

Post by jefurii »

wolvoleo wrote: post #12

Thinking of this it would be amazing to have a TUI for home assistant. It's already so good at doing all the nuts and bolts of control and interacting with everything. But its UI is super heavy loaded JavaScript. It doesn't run well on old tablets either for this reason, sadly.

I would love to have a TUI for Home Assistant!

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by sublinear »

wolvoleo wrote: post #12

Thinking of this it would be amazing to have a TUI for home assistant. It's already so good at doing all the nuts and bolts of control and interacting with everything. But its UI is super heavy loaded JavaScript. It doesn't run well on old tablets either for this reason, sadly.

There's a CLI [1], LLM API [2], and REST API [3].

[1]: https://github.com/home-assistant-ecosystem/home-assistant-c...

[2]: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/core/llm/

[3]: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/api/rest/

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by embedding-shape »

fudged71 wrote: post #11

I think/hope the whole "home manager" category is going to take off soon. On a cost basis, it no longer makes sense--practically--not to use visual/text/audio intelligence to manage such a large asset. We just don't have the user-friendly mass-market interfaces for it just yet. It's possible to scan every manual, every insurance policy, ingest every local bylaw. It's possible to take a video of your home and transfor…

> It's possible to do sensor fusion of all the outward facing cameras from your home

Is that legal though? I'm guessing it the US it might be, given the amount of cameras of public places you can see in various communities, but wonder how common that is. Where I live (Spain) it's not legal to just stick a camera on your house and record public places, you need to put the camera in a way so you're only filming your private property or similar.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#17

Post by cpcloud »

aeve890 wrote: post #10

The testimonials cracked me up. I'm still managing my house maintenance on a spreadsheet like an absolute barbarian. I mean I was, until now. Does it come in Catpuccin?

I hadn't considered theming it differently, though in theory it should be adaptive to light versus dark terminals. I only use dark terminals and I couldn't be bothered to test that before there were any users, so if it doesn't work, I will happily task it out to an agent!

Now I kind of want custom themes...

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

#19

Post by iamjackg »

Heck yeah! Love the VisiData shoutout. Echoing other people's desire for a web UI, mostly so I don't have to be the sole Maintainer of the Truth as the only resident household technomancer.

EDIT: alternatively, exposing the data/functionality via MCP or similar would allow me to connect this to an agent using Home Assistant Voice, so anybody in the house could ask for changes or add new information.

Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal

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Post by cpcloud »

reconnecting wrote: post #18

Any ideas why Claude forces TUI application development?

Maybe it's that TUIs feel manageable with an agent. They can be well scoped without a ton of effort, which at least for me makes me a tiny bit more comfortable letting them write code.
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