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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 2 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.023s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
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princevegeta89 ◴[28 Apr 23 08:28 UTC] No.35738889[source]▶
I built a Frigate event listener and notifier service for Mobile phones that makes use of Pushover.

The currently supported setup of Frigate alerts using homeassistant seemed to be very profoundly complex and I just thought I could use the Frigate API and wrote a small tool with Nodejs. It has been working flawlessly, including sending photos of events to my Android phone.

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1. l2silver ◴[28 Apr 23 08:33 UTC] No.35738915[source]▶
What's the use case for this?
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2. princevegeta89 ◴[28 Apr 23 14:18 UTC] No.35741540[source]▶
Getting motion detection events along with video clips and images in push notifications for iPhone and Android, from Frigate, which is a selfhosted NVR for your security cams.