Grocy tracks your household stock. This pipeline gives it a voice — tap a shortcut on your phone, type what you’re looking for, and get the answer spoken aloud on your Sonos speaker with quantity, location, and expiry date included. No cloud dependencies, no subscriptions. Just a small Python service tying together tools you’re already running.
A living experiment in total visibility. How my home network quietly captures, pipes, and publishes every moment of a day — and why you’re probably doing it too.
I built a one-tap home inventory query system using Tasker, a self-hosted Python service, and Sonos — type what you’re looking for, and your speaker tells you where it is.
Mylio had been the photo solution for years. Then it started doing the thing subscription software does when it gets comfortable — degrading quietly. The Samsung S23 Ultra became a recurring problem. The fix was to reinstall — which triggered a re-sync that created duplicates and ghost entries. Add the subscription cost on top of that and the math was simple.
The origin story. Cloud fatigue, the hardware decision, Ubuntu baseline, HA Green as the entry point, why two machines. Sets the world for everything that follows.