is there a home-assistant addon for doing personal finance?
Why on earth would you want to use HA as a host for that?
Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
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Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#62What's with people building open source finance managers? This is like the 1000th one I have seen.
Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#63Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to support integration with the open banking standard used in Australia, New Zealand and the UK
It connects with Nordigen/Gocardless - I use it in the UK and it works really well.
Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#64Looks good! However, if you need multi-currency support, I'd recommend checking out HomeBank. Multi-currency is one of those weird things, where if you actually need it your options are much more limited, but it also feels weird to keep asking financial software developers to keep implement a niche-ish feature. Anyway, it's good to have options. https://www.gethomebank.org/en/index.php
Firefly has good multi-currency support, that's the reason I chose it over Actual
Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#65With Mint being deprecated, I’ve been looking for something to replace it. I know there are a number of paid alternatives, but it seems like they all are missing at least one or two things that I liked about Mint.
Is there an OSS option that comes close? Seems like the biggest hurdle is finding one that is close to reliable when authenticating with other sites (and able to adapt to changes they make, 2FA, etc.).
I guess the good news is that most of the ones I use are fairly popular/big (e.g. Vanguard, Ally, Schwab, etc.). But I have a couple loans (home, car) tied into smaller institutions.
EDIT: related, a recent thread on Mint alternatives that I had missed:
Ask HN: Alternative to Mint.com?
(9 days ago, 44 votes, 71 comments)
Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#66Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#67What's with people building open source finance managers? This is like the 1000th one I have seen.
Along with note taking and todo apps, it's low hanging fruit. It's a problem most people / developers can understand without having to do a lot of studying, and it fits in people's heads.
But it's also often an example of people not willing to learn a new tool, or not willing to pay for one, so why not build a new one? How hard can it be?
Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#68What's with people building open source finance managers? This is like the 1000th one I have seen.
No idea if it's still the same now, but banking account management, both from the consumer and the bank side, used to be very common example use cases when teaching OOP. Maybe some of those example projects grew into hobbies which grew into OSS projects.
Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#69With Mint being deprecated, I’ve been looking for something to replace it. I know there are a number of paid alternatives, but it seems like they all are missing at least one or two things that I liked about Mint. Is there an OSS option that comes close? Seems like the biggest hurdle is finding one that is close to reliable when authenticating with other sites (and able to adapt to changes they make, 2FA, etc.). I gu…
Are there any good paid ones, even, for Canadian institutions specifically?
We have 4 credit cards and two chequing accounts plus mortgage etc at different institutions. It would be worth some small amount of money for me, especially for a desktop not SaaS solution, to get a unified view I can categorize, filter, sort, graph, etc.
Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager
#70I wish I could get data about my transactions through an api from my bank
Firefly kinda worked around this. You can download all transactions of your bank as a CSV, then use the Firefly importer to automatically map the data and save it inside Firefly. I usually do this once a week and it works pretty quickly, maybe a minute of work.