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Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal by interroboink on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:00PM (#47078392)
I didn't see it on the feature list, but it might be nice to allow it to run as a cron job and send email for reminders. These days, most mobile phones have an associated email like [email protected] (depending on carrier), so you can send yourself text messages about chores and whatnot.

Or, perhaps just as good, have a way for it to dump out data as json, and could be consumed by some other send-the-email tool. There is the "-json" sqlite option, of course, but I'm not sure if your schema is meant to be stable.

I have a perl script for reminders like this that has been super handy over the 10+ years I've been using it. Never bit the bullet to put it in a nice UI or have a backing DB like this project, though.

Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal by cpcloud on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:27AM (#47101660)
There's definitely some scope and appetite for some notifications/reminders here. I haven't thought about the UX here, but the ingest pipeline + automatic reminders seems like a killer combo!