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24 alternatives to MQTT Alive Daemon – Report Custom Command Results to Home Assistant
I've just released MQTT Alive Daemon v0.2.0, a lightweight go daemon for integrating computer status and custom commands with Home Assistant via MQTT. I built this because I wanted to know when my computers were on and I was at my desk, and existing solutions weren't responsive enough or were too resource-intensive. Key features: * Reports when the PC is on * Reports the result of any custom command * Seamless integration with Home Assistant * Support for launchd and systemd (new in v0.2.0) In my setup, it's helped me save energy by automatically managing 3 speakers, a mixer, a monitor,…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MQTT Alive Daemon – Report Custom Command Results to Home Assistant launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Aident AI Beta 2▲398Hi HN — I’m Kimi, founder of Aident AI. A couple years ago, I cold-started a startup and tried to automate my outreach pipeline with a patchwork: RPA + Zapier + "just some ChatGPT". It worked… until it didn’t. Every time I tweaked the strategy, the automation snapped. The system wasn’t built for change — it was built for wiring. And that’s when it hit me: AI is finally smart enough to do real work, but we still don’t have a clean way to communicate the work to it: Drag-and-drop flows are too rigid; Scripts are too fragile; Prompts are too ephemeral. I kept thinking: why can’t automation be…
Mar 2026 · aident.ai · its alternatives →
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YourGPT 2.0▲215Today we are launching YourGPT 2.0, an update focused on making support, sales, and operational workflows work together more smoothly in one system. This release improves how workflows are built, how the platform connects to external tools, and how context is maintained across long, multi-channel interactions. AI Studio now makes it much easier to create and refine workflows. You can describe the process you want in natural language and the system generates the full workflow for you. It can also help debug issues by showing what happened at each step and explaining where things went off…
Nov 2025 · yourgpt.ai · its alternatives →
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Run asynchronous standups, retros, and surveys in MS Teams
2021 · geekbot.com · its alternatives →
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Your wishes are my commands. Contribute to dylanjcastillo/shell-genie development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MyMQTT▲67The simple message queuing telemetry transport client
2022 · mymqtt.app · its alternatives →
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2019 · freshworks.com · its alternatives →
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🐦 Bringing animated parrots to terminals everywhere - hugomd/parrot.live
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Control Home Assistant from your desktop system tray
Feb 2026 · dseichter.github.io · its alternatives →
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PAI▲9Hi HN! I've been spending the past month on PAI, a Linux-esque harness for a personal assistant AI for your Mac. Instead of giving a chatbot a bunch of tools, I wanted to just drop the LLM into a terminal and see how it'd fare. I've been using it to manage my calendar, 5+ email accounts, and engaging with / responding to people in a timely manner (casus belli for this entire project). After seeing how other always-on assistants were designed, I thought the Unix / Linux philosophy of system design could be applied to AI harnesses, and I wanted to experiment with how it'd hold up…
Jul 2026 · whitematterlabs.ai · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News, My co-founder and I have spent the better part of years developing a completely hackable Home Automation toolset that runs on a Raspberry Pi, or any machine running Linux. With just a Raspberry Pi and a $45 Z-Wave dongle (https://www.amazon.com/Aeotec-Z-Stick-Z-Wave-create-gateway/...), you can run a complete home automation system! Our hub will support any Z-Wave or Z-Wave plus device. We are cloud hosted service that doesn't require you to purchase any proprietary hardware. Our hub software runs on NodeJS and is completely open source. We encourage…
2018 · its alternatives →
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🏠 Tells you what changed on your server — only what's worth telling. Single Go binary, no daemon, no database, MCP server built in. - Higangssh/homebutler
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discover how to run asynchronous standup meetings in Slack and MS Teams and keep your team synced using Geekbot. Start your free trial today!
2015 · geekbot.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN we are Andrew and Dex. We built dialtone watcher, a small Go agent for macOS and Linux with a very specific goal: tell me what my machine is doing all day and help me compare that with others. What it does so far: - Watches running processes, CPU and memory use, and active network endpoints. - Groups traffic into human sized summaries by process, domain, and coarse protocol like HTTPS, DNS, QUIC, and Postgres. - Stores a local summary and can post bounded rollups to the dialtoneapp.com api so enough installs can turn the fleet view into something real. We kept circling the same…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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Simplest way to troubleshoot and analyze MQTT messages
2025 · its alternatives →
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Intended for 10-year (plus hopefully) deployment lifetime on $10-30 of silicon. The kind of thing you screw to a wall, plug in, and walk away from for a decade. No telemetry, no phone-home updates, no external dependencies. Storage decisions get a sanity checked against NVS wear... a write-per-PUBLISH would shred the flash in months, so the retained store and in tables that stay in PSRAM. Its heavily written with AI and borrowed a lot of visuals from Tasmota. Not for production use yet (been currently running it for a month with great results!)
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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LLM observability is an absolute must-have for anyone running something in prod (or prod-like). While all the observability startups are great, you're essentially sending all your OpenAI usage history - prompts, generations, chats - to a random third party. So this script deploys a basic proxy in your Azure account, catches all incoming OpenAI requests, stores logs in your own resource group, and comes with visualizations premade (charts, timelines, chat history, cost estimation, etc). Thanks for any thoughts and feedback!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I vibe-coded a terminal tool called Pluqqy (I had a dormant domain on hand) to help me keep LLM context organized while coding with AI. It’s my first time writing Go and my first terminal app, built almost entirely with Claude Code. • What it does: Pluqqy lets you manage prompts, rules, and context as small building blocks, then stitch them together into a single file (like AGENT.md or CLAUDE.md) that your coding agent can consume. It’s meant to reduce context drift and make iteration easier. • Why I built it: I was losing track of my agent context between sessions and wanted something…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN. This is a script I have been using for some time for coding tasks, which I have polished a bit and published. The motivation behind this script was to have an agent with persistent session which I can use from the shell like a regular command. It _can_ also be scripted, although I don't use it in such a way. The script uses a minimal prompt, which just tells it to use standard unix tools to do everything. I was surprised at how well it worked, when using a good model. Qwen3-coder is on openrouter, and it works well with the minimal instructions. I also tested qwen2.5-coder with ollama…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been building a cli for my homelab/self-hosted setup. The original motivation was getting tired of stitching together deployments, monitoring, remote SSH access and random scripts. It’s a open source CLI, all-in-one tool for monitoring, secure remote accces (tunnel and terminal), log forwarding, automated deployments. No exposed ports, or endpoint, everything is configurable how the user wants it. One use case that multiple friends are interested in is replacing HomeAssistant’s Nabu Casa subscription with tunneling through BeaconInfra. The cloud/control-plane part…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automate MQTT, BLE & REST APIs with visual flows in Android
Jul 2026 · mqttfy.com · its alternatives →
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