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

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Post by interroboink »

I didn't see it on the feature list, but it might be nice to allow it to run as a cron job and send email for reminders. These days, most mobile phones have an associated email like your-phone-number@vztext.com (depending on carrier), so you can send yourself text messages about chores and whatnot.

Or, perhaps just as good, have a way for it to dump out data as json, and could be consumed by some other send-the-email tool. There is the "-json" sqlite option, of course, but I'm not sure if your schema is meant to be stable.

I have a perl script for reminders like this that has been super handy over the 10+ years I've been using it. Never bit the bullet to put it in a nice UI or have a backing DB like this project, though.

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

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Post by stephen_cagle »

I think this is neat. I use org-mode for pretty much everything, which has all of these features I think, but sometimes there is nothing more motivating than a quick responsive UI to actually do something. This looks motivational.

My only pushback is using sqlite. I am a big fan of just using simple (structured) text files that can be edited by hand when needed. Your computer is more than capable of doing all the joining/querying/aggregating/whatever with the text file itself rather than relying on a database. I personally find these sort of file structures comforting as it means they can be easily modified in unsupported ways.

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

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Post by kayge »

gleenn wrote: post #62

Someone has a sense of humor in the reviews section: "I’ve been using the demo data for three weeks. I don’t own a house. — Aspiring Homeowner"

I didn't see that review in the 4 shown in that section until I refreshed the page... there are some good ones in there, including a Hacker News shoutout :D

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

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Post by globular-toast »

stronglikedan wrote: post #69

> When do I need to clean the dishwasher filter? Dishwashers have filters??!?

They do in Europe. They have water softeners too that you have to fill with salt. Don't believe it's the case around the world.

More than you ever wanted to know about dishwashers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBO8neWw04

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

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Post by burkaman »

stronglikedan wrote: post #69

> When do I need to clean the dishwasher filter? Dishwashers have filters??!?

Many have removable filters that you're supposed to clean periodically. If there's nothing obviously removable in yours then it might have a "self-cleaning" system that would be harder to take out and clean yourself.

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

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Post by _neil »

oulipo2 wrote: post #58

Cool! Although I'd rather use Obsidian with the Tables stuff, so I get everything in my UI with photos, and I can share with mobile

I'm building a Home vault like this currently. With the new obsidian cli, you can do a lot more with letting an agent manage things and update dashboards, etc. for you.

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

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Post by matthewfcarlson »

embedding-shape wrote: post #15
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 pr…

The US gives you no expectation of privacy in public places and private property is generally do what you want. It gets murkier if your cameras are pointed at other private property (your neighbors).

Not a legal expert just what I’ve heard.

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