Very cool! When on docs column, and pressing e to edit, it seems to just take you to edit the entire project, with no way to edit docs (which I am not sure what that even is supposed to be, I assume a way to attach files?).
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Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Oh that's not my philosophy at all. I don't like too much automation because I'm very fussy as to what I want at one moment. It all depends on my mood which home assistant doesn't know. Sometimes when I enter a room I want the lights on, other times I don't, stuff like that. Like when the curtains are open and I'm walking around half naked. And sometimes I just like the dark and sometimes I need bright lights. Someti…
Same. My environment molds to my comfort, not the other way around.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#83Very cool! When on docs column, and pressing e to edit, it seems to just take you to edit the entire project, with no way to edit docs (which I am not sure what that even is supposed to be, I assume a way to attach files?).
This UX was a bit iffy for me, but I thought I'd experiment with it and decided to go with it.
When you edit an ID column, it opens a form editor to edit the entire row at once.
The thinking was to make all columns editable _in some way_, but ID columns are autogenerated and thus not designed to be directly manipulated.
I thought: since the ID represents a unique entity, in this case document, then it made some sense to make editing that editing the whole row.
That said, this is a bug even with the explanation I just gave: editing on the ID column of Docs doesn't show all the row's data in the form. Will fix that shortly.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#84I 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…
I checked out HomeChart, and boy howdy it feels like its doing way too much.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#85Super cool. Installed. It would be great if the f and b keys for moving between navigation elements circle back to the first element once reached its end.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#86Wow! 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.
You just create a shortcut to the binary in the dock or desktop on macos.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#87This is dope.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#88Super cool. Installed. It would be great if the f and b keys for moving between navigation elements circle back to the first element once reached its end.
Heh, I actually turned that off because I kept getting confused about where I was. Perhaps there's a better UX there, or better styling that would make me less confused and keep the nav wrapping.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#89I 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 built https://manor.app with the intention of it fitting the “user-friendly mass-market interface” you suggest. It’s essentially a “second brain” app for your home(s), covering inventory, documents, tasks/reminders, notes, etc. The inspiration is tools like Asana, Linear, etc I used in my career as a software engineer, tailored for the home.
It’s my sole area of focus, with more document retrieval and analysis (and UI polish) on the way.
Re: Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal
#90This 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!
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