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Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by esquire_900 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:24AM (#21773229)
This, as well as related projects like n8n & node-red, is a very cool project. I always wonder what people use it for in real life though. It seems a lot of trouble (setting up, learning curve, maintaining) for an action that usually takes a couple of seconds, like checking the weather or opening twitter.

Does anybody have useful workflows going on?

Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by cobby on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:03PM (#21773658)
> checking the weather

I actually use Huginn to check the weather, compare it with weather conditions for the previous two days and send the result to my Telegram as a simple text ("It should be a bit warmer than yesterday in the first half of the day").

I do this because I have a hard time understanding if wearing a coat would be enough for '-5 deg. Celsium, NW wind 30 kmph'. Comparison with previous days helps a lot since I already know that I was feeling ok in my coat yesterday.

Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by mcbits on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:35AM (#21773340)
Ever notice when someone criticizes a company on HN, and suddenly the CEO shows up and engages after 6 months of inactivity? Likely they are using a tool like this along with Google Alerts, etc, to monitor sites for mentions of the company and maybe flag negative sentiment. Also, same thing but for politics.
Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by janober on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:58AM (#21773602)
Yes, very interesting indeed! Either there is a big conspiracy to uncover or said CEO reads HN and if something is number 1 and is related to his product he pays close attention. We will maybe never find out the truth...
Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by mcbits on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:14PM (#21773807)
From your defensive tone it sounds like you think I was talking about you, but I really wasn't. It's a phenomenon I've observed here and on Reddit and elsewhere for many years. And it seems like a perfect fit for a tool such as yours, is it not?
Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by janober on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:29PM (#21773997)
Very sorry! As I was the only "CEO" in here which product got criticized I thought it must have been me ;-)

Yes would actually be perfect for it, but never had the time to set something like that up. Maybe someday in the future. For now, I only have a simple Google Alert set and regularly check HN and Google Analytics which is a good indicator when it got mentioned somewhere.

Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by csomar on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:13PM (#21784966)
> As I was the only "CEO" in here which product got criticized I thought it must have been me ;-)

I don't think so.

Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by elcomet on Thursday December 12, 2019 @11:35AM (#21773346)
I do use node-red in real life.

Basically for two things: - Transform rss feeds into instant messages (this way I receive new comics I follow on my phone for example)

- Create simple bots

This way I avoid creating scripts every time and managing a new webserver and stuff, all my small scripts are in one place.

Re:Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf by Cameri on Thursday December 12, 2019 @04:01PM (#21776415)
I have a few: - watch GoFundMe campaigns and post funding updates on Telegram - watch multiple tech blogs and post updates on Telegram - watch multiple funny blogs (xkcd, monkeyuser, lightroast, daily wtf) and post updates on Telegram - watch English idiom/word/phrase of the day feeds and post on Telegram - watch Canada's Express Entry draws and post new draws on Telegram - watch IELTS exam dates/locations/seat availability and post updates on Telegram

These have required some setup but little to no maintenance after.