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

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Post by neop1x »

boring_twenties wrote: post #126
vorpalhex wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I have one box acting as a router, NAS, DVB-T receiver, NAS and the other box as HTPC. Both are based on desktop motherboards and I also run Kubernetes (kubeadm) on them, with more CPU-intensive tasks assigned to non-HTPC so it doesn't interrupt movie playback. But yes, I think it is not common, it takes time to set up and maintain.

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

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Post by johnx123-up »

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…

If possible, can you please compare it against Flogo https://github.com/tibcosoftware/flogo ?

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

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Post by slightwinder »

DailyHN wrote: post #107

I've operated a huginn for 5+ years. AMA

How does configuration works? Is it just configurable through the webinterface or can I update/set workflows with some external script?

Is configuration saved in textfiles which I can put under versioncontrol and backup, or is it some unaccesable binay blob?

How much does it break with each update? And how often does it receive bigger and smaller updates?

How does this compare to something like home assistant or node-red, if you know this software.

Anything you consider missing or lacking on some area?

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

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Post by tripzilch »

wpietri wrote: post #47
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…

I'm excited to check this out, but I wanted to congratulate you on a truly excellent project name. Having spent many, many hours in naming struggles, I truly appreciate the perfection. And for those unfamiliar, the (also amazingly named) historian Snori Sturluson explains: "Two ravens sit on his (Odin’s) shoulders and whisper all the news which they see and hear into his ear; they are called Huginn and Muninn. He sen…

... except that the first thing I thought was, did the open source panorama stitching project got ... different?

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

I thought what a weird coincidence that they'd choose this very similar weird word ... but now that you point out it's the name of one of Odin's ravens, I guess it's not quite as uncommon of a word.

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

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Post by DailyHN »

slightwinder wrote: post #134
DailyHN wrote: post #107

I've operated a huginn for 5+ years. AMA

How does configuration works? Is it just configurable through the webinterface or can I update/set workflows with some external script? Is configuration saved in textfiles which I can put under versioncontrol and backup, or is it some unaccesable binay blob? How much does it break with each update? And how often does it receive bigger and smaller updates? How does this compare to something like home assistant or node…

> How does configuration works? Is it just configurable through the webinterface or can I update/set workflows with some external script?

Primarily Web interface. Though, the CommanderAgent can configure and trigger other agents. You can use that in combination with your external script for configuration.

> Is configuration saved in textfiles which I can put under versioncontrol and backup, or is it some unaccesable binay blob?

Agent configurations are stored in the database and can be exported as text files for your backups.

> How much does it break with each update? And how often does it receive bigger and smaller updates?

Making sure updates don't break existing installations is one of the top priorities of maintainers. Most of the updates are small/incremental. And I haven't had any problems with the updates breaking things.

> How does this compare to something like home assistant or node-red, if you know this software.

I looks at node-red years ago and determined it wasn't as mature of a project. Things could've changed since then. And I haven't heard of home assistant.

> Anything you consider missing or lacking on some area?

The UI is a bit basic. Though, I think this can also be looked at as a feature instead of a flaw.

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

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Post by PatrolX »

boring_twenties wrote: post #126
vorpalhex wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I've run Huginn on a MacBook.

It works fine, along with a whole bunch of other stuff in Docker.

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

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Post by DailyHN »

swyx wrote: post #137
jaequery wrote: post #9

This looks worth checking out but I’d love to see a Lambda version of it

what would be your preferred way of scheduling lambdas and doing storage?

I use HTTP cloud functions (google/firebase version of aws lambda).

Firebase database for long term persistence.

Huginn for scheduling and event based triggers of those cloud functions.

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