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Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by vunie »

DailyHN wrote: post #120
vunie wrote: post #118

How well does it support: - support remote agents and remote reporting? - dead-man triggers for missing reports? - is remote reporting properly secured? (encrypted/signed)

What do you mean remote agents? Can it be accessed over HTTP? Then yes. One of the great features of huginn is the diagram. That's where there are green and red indicators. Red indicates both errors and when a longer than expected period has passed. This makes quickly inspecting your workflows easy.

> What do you mean remote agents?

Sorry. I meant running an agent on a machine that is separate from the machine running huginn. The machine running the agent is not accessible publicly but has internet access (doesn't accept connections but can initiate them). huginn would be accessible publicly.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by DailyHN »

vunie wrote: post #121
DailyHN wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean remote agents? Can it be accessed over HTTP? Then yes. One of the great features of huginn is the diagram. That's where there are green and red indicators. Red indicates both errors and when a longer than expected period has passed. This makes quickly inspecting your workflows easy.

> What do you mean remote agents? Sorry. I meant running an agent on a machine that is separate from the machine running huginn. The machine running the agent is not accessible publicly but has internet access (doesn't accept connections but can initiate them). huginn would be accessible publicly.

Ok, so in the remote agent:

Retrieving data from huginn can be done with the DataOutputAgent.

Sending data to huginn can be achieved through the WebhookAgent.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by Wistar »

tectonic wrote: post #41

It's fun to wake up to find a project that I started on the top of HN! These days, I'm no longer very involved with the day-to-day of the project. Now that it's no longer a young project, here are some musings about Huginn and responses to people's comments in this thread, in no particular order. I've found that Huginn excels as a scheduled web scraper with lightweight filtering. That's what I use it for. On the othe…

You, Sir, are why I read HN. It's as simple as that.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by PatrolX »

outworlder wrote: post #92
aasasd wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fittingly, Munin is a sorta-popular server monitoring tool: http://munin-monitoring.org

I actually thought the thread was about that. The Muninn/Hugginn association is engraved in my brain. I blame EVE online.

Haha, I was wondering when someone would bring up EVE.

Huginn is a fun ship to fly.

o7

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by devm0de »

I gave this a go today and managed to install huginn on my synology nas by simply searching for the docker container. I then setup 3 agents to scrape a Shopify webstore jason endpoint that I’m always checking for inventory, have huginn parse the json and send me an sms via twilio if inventory changes. Took about 2 hours, wasn’t too bad. Huginn twilio docs seemed dated.

Used python simplehttp server and ngrok to replicate a json url and play with the triggers to test it all before pointing it at a real website.

Nice to add a new tool to the belt, thanks!

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by boring_twenties »

vorpalhex wrote: post #99
PopeDotNinja wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I save thousands of dollars by using Huginn. Does that take into account the overhead of operating Huginn?

You can deploy it as a docker image in a few minutes. If you already run a homelab of any sort (which most of HN does), it's basically free.

> If you already run a homelab of any sort (which most of HN does)

You sure about that? I feel like there are plenty of folks on here whose only computer is a MacBook

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by bpuvanathasan »

tectonic wrote: post #60
bitshift wrote: post #45

There is also ActiveWorkflow[1], which targets business users and let's you write custom agents in any programming language[2]. 1. https://github.com/automaticmode/active_workflow 2. https://github.com/automaticmode/active_workflow/blob/master...

Huh, I did not know about this fork of Huginn.

https://tines.io (security automation platform) might also be based on (or inspired by) Huginn

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by solstice »

tectonic wrote: post #41

It's fun to wake up to find a project that I started on the top of HN! These days, I'm no longer very involved with the day-to-day of the project. Now that it's no longer a young project, here are some musings about Huginn and responses to people's comments in this thread, in no particular order. I've found that Huginn excels as a scheduled web scraper with lightweight filtering. That's what I use it for. On the othe…

Thank you for making Orbital Index! Super interesting and well written!

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by theshadowmonkey »

I’m glad Huginn is on the front page. It’s an awesome project being used for a long time now. I was testing Huginn to see how skimpy I can be and still run Huginn on a free tier. Was able to run it on open shift free tier a while ago when their allowance was generous. But, looks like it’s hard now. Will try running on a Gcp instance and see if it works.

Re: Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf

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Post by codeduck »

outworlder wrote: post #92
aasasd wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fittingly, Munin is a sorta-popular server monitoring tool: http://munin-monitoring.org

I actually thought the thread was about that. The Muninn/Hugginn association is engraved in my brain. I blame EVE online.

Sleipnir forever!
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