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

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Post by atonse » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

This looks awesome but I think I might still prefer to have an agent make these changes. Not sure though.

In general, I love the juxtaposition of the most advanced computer technology ever (AI) causing an explosion in one of the OLDEST computer technology we've ever had (terminals).

I spend most of my day in a terminal now. It's just funny.

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

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Post by reconnecting » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

cpcloud wrote: post #20

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.

It feels like something to do with front-end development limitations. I noticed a wave of TUI applications, all written by Claude from the initial commit.

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

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Post by thomascountz » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 5:59 PM UTC

   files are stored as BLOBs inside the SQLite database, so cp micasa.db backup.db backs up everything – no sidecar files

SQLite is just so cool. Anyway, this whole project looks amazing. I can't wait to kick tires (and then track when I last changed my tires... wait, can it do that?!)

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

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Post by homarp » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:01 PM UTC

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 call this the "Home Resource Planner"

Bricks are there (Home assistant, Frigate, Pihole,...)

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

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Post by hilti » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:07 PM UTC

Wow! This is so cool. I really need to get my hands on TUI. It seems to be a growing trend. Maybe it's a stupid question, because I know about family members that have never opened a terminal - can a TUI app bundled with an icon to simply click and start it?

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

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Post by whiplash451 » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC

This looks so much better than most project/product management tools out there.

In my wildest dreams, your project would turn into a jira that devs love.

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

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Post by dmd » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

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.

My overall philosophy for (my quite extensive) Home Assistant setup is “amy time a human interacts with the HA UI in any way whatsoever, that is a failure.” I don’t want dashboards, I don’t want a user interface at ALL other than for setting up new automation. The point of HA for me is the house should feel like the correct things happen by magic (and should be essentially unobtrusive and natural).

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

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Post by candiddevmike » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

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…

We've been building https://homechart.app for years (without GenAI...) and folks just don't realize that home managers exist as an app. They're too used to single purpose solutions, so they don't think to look for more comprehensive options.

There's also the inherit struggle of being everything for everyone with an app like this, and focusing on features 80% of your users want and leaving the other 20% niche features on the backlog upsets people, mostly the power users.

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

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Post by amelius » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:12 PM UTC

Why not keep everything in a simple text file?

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

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Post by nkrisc » Thu, Feb 19, 2026, 6:13 PM UTC

This is basically what I want, but with a UI that non-techie spouse wouldn’t mind using. Though that doesn't seem to be your intended direction, which is fair.

We use Apple Reminders for grocery lists and Paprika for recipes, but something a little more organized than just a shared note for these sorts of things would be great.

I will probably check it out for myself though.