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

#33

Post by cpcloud »

hilti wrote: post #25

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?

> can a TUI app bundled with an icon to simply click and start it?

Almost certainly. I personally don't use clicky things to the extent that I am able to avoid them, so I can't describe the specific mechanism or name any of the nouns/tools involved, but I'm pretty sure this exists.

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

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Post by amelius »

cpcloud wrote: post #31
amelius wrote: post #29

Why not keep everything in a simple text file?

I'm not sure if you're asking whether micasa should use a text file as its format, or if you're suggesting that a text file can be a substitute for micasa.

The latter.

I do things in my house too infrequently that I don't want to have to re-learn the UI of a tool again and again.

But maybe I'm not the target audience.

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

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Post by cpcloud »

atonse wrote: post #21

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.

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

Not entirely sure what you mean here, but the next big feature for micasa is an autopopulation pipeline. Upload a quote PDF and populate the project, quote, and vendor tables. It might not be viable ultimately, but I would love to see how far I can get.

Overkill? Definitely.

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

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Post by cpcloud »

mattw2121 wrote: post #32

I created a basic site to do some similar things as well: https://homemaintlist.com/ Need to revisit it and update it based on a lot of feedback I've received.

I definitely waffled a bit on multi-property support, but decided against it for initial launch. Multi-property avid terminal users seems even more niche!

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

#38

Post by cpcloud »

thomascountz wrote: post #23

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?!)

One of my first thoughts after getting a working prototype was: "Doesn't the car battery need to be replaced?"

So, yeah. This would obviously be called micarro.

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

#39

Post by cpcloud »

max8539 wrote: post #35

Looks nice, I like this TUI aesthetic, but I’m not sure I could use it on a daily basis. A self-hosted app or phone app might be more convenient

100% on the phone app. Maybe the web app is the phone app? Dunno. Being able to enter information as close to receiving as possible seems key actually. I'll probably poke on this soon.

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

#40

Post by cpcloud »

dmd wrote: post #27
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).

I've honestly never explored HA. Is there a world where HA obviates micasa. That seems like a win, at least in terms of not having yet another piece of software duplicating an existing thing.
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