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

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Post by cheema33 »

mrpf1ster wrote: post #9

Looks good - I like the TUI a lot. The only thing with that type of interface is that there is no chance my wife would use it via the terminal. It would be cool if there was a web UI as well - so other members of the household could access and use it.

This.

If I am the only one who can use it and only from one computer, it would be entirely useless for my needs. I have several computers and also family members who would need access to that data. A Google Docs spreadsheet would be a better tool for my specific needs I think.

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

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Post by cpcloud »

open592 wrote: post #90

This is awesome, love the sense of humor and just downloaded it and started adding data. Only small piece of feedback is that I would use `$VISUAL` when opening the editor. When I tried to use `Ctrl+e` it opened nano which I haven't used in ages. Edit: Oh looks like you use `$EDITOR` - I just didn't have that set. Awesome! These are the projects which make me love Show HN!

Thanks for the feedback!

Did you hit this in the Docs open flow?

micasa will call xdg-open (linux)/open (mac)/cmd (windows) when opening a document, but there's nothing that's explicitly opening a text editor.

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

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Post by cpcloud »

defaultcompany wrote: post #91
iamjackg wrote: post #19

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.

This makes me want to use visidata for my databases.

Funny enough, Saul and I recently hacked on getting visidata's Ibis integration updated, so you can use visidata for poking around databases of any size, really. You might like that, but also visidata has non-ibis support for SQLite I believe.

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

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Post by relaxing »

candiddevmike wrote: post #97
rocketpastsix wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I checked out HomeChart, and boy howdy it feels like its doing way too much.

Thank you for ironically proving my point, I guess. The main value add here is everything is integrated into one app. I always wonder if folks said the same thing when Salesforce or SAP were created. Anyways we document our reasoning here: https://homechart.app/docs/explanations/architecture/#separa...

People say that about Salesforce and SAP now…

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

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Post by deeth_starr_v »

aeblyve wrote: post #47

I feel like a lot of these types of apps could just be spreadsheets. Maybe a "smart" spreadsheet like Grist[0] executing Python code. Am I off-base there? [0] https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core

I agree. While I really like the idea of being able to query some of this data, it's another system to maintain. I have a system where I use a calendar, physical folder, and notes/folder in the cloud. Call me lazy.

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

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Post by order-matters »

erader wrote: post #52
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…

I've been working on something like this the last few months specifically around service quote analysis (repairs, construction, hvac, auto, etc.) and it's really cool. I think LLM analysis is the way to go because the amount of complexity is absolutely staggering - just to start the difference in quality and information available on a quote is drastically different between vendors within the SAME vertical. Then to do…

how do you handle the LLM hallucinations in analysis? I like it for data extraction but i never trust it to analyze anything
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