Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
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Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#2Very cool. What information is automatically imported to your list when scanning a barcode? Is it just the name of the product?
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#3I imagine a future evolution of this could be embedding it on a raspi with a USB barcode scanner, and putting a control screen in your pantry.
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#4I love the idea of this, but in reality I can’t imagine the time and energy required to scan and keep everything up-to-date is offset by the benefits. Perhaps a current user can prove me wrong?
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#5I imagine a future evolution of this could be embedding it on a raspi with a USB barcode scanner, and putting a control screen in your pantry.
You can read barcodes with your phone camera. No additional hardware required.
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#6If I didn't have to do the input myself I would subscribe to this for life.
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#7I love the idea of this, but in reality I can’t imagine the time and energy required to scan and keep everything up-to-date is offset by the benefits. Perhaps a current user can prove me wrong?
Agreed. If there was some kind of tech like Amazon's just walk out idea that could automate keeping track of everything it would be great. But having to do this stuff manually kills it. It's the same problem I have with personal money mangers; I have to manually import my bank transactions and then further manually categorize and label them (I've scripted some but can't do most) for it to properly work and give me good graphs and breakdowns.
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#8I love the idea of this, but in reality I can’t imagine the time and energy required to scan and keep everything up-to-date is offset by the benefits. Perhaps a current user can prove me wrong?
I think this sort of inventory system combined with automatic updates (a la Amazon Go store style OCR embedded in smart fridges, etc) would go a long way. Have always thought this would be useful, but agreed the amount of energy required to manually update everything would be unsustainable.
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#9I love the idea of this, but in reality I can’t imagine the time and energy required to scan and keep everything up-to-date is offset by the benefits. Perhaps a current user can prove me wrong?
Agreed. If there was some kind of tech like Amazon's just walk out idea that could automate keeping track of everything it would be great. But having to do this stuff manually kills it. It's the same problem I have with personal money mangers; I have to manually import my bank transactions and then further manually categorize and label them (I've scripted some but can't do most) for it to properly work and give me go…
"You've been buying a lot of alcohol and tobacco cyberpunk, I bet insurance companies would find this info useful."
Re: Grocy: web-based, self-hosted grocery and household management
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. If there was some kind of tech like Amazon's just walk out idea that could automate keeping track of everything it would be great. But having to do this stuff manually kills it. It's the same problem I have with personal money mangers; I have to manually import my bank transactions and then further manually categorize and label them (I've scripted some but can't do most) for it to properly work and give me go…
"You've been buying a lot of alcohol and tobacco cyberpunk, I bet insurance companies would find this info useful."
99.999% I think this thought as well. But, if I interpreted your quote correctly, it would require one's data to be made available to the powers-that-be, right? But, since this is self-hosted, only you would have control over your data, and not them, right? (Or, perhaps I'm missing something?)