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79 points sfeldma | 1 comments | 17 May 25 01:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source

Merliot Hub is an AI-integrated device hub.

What does that mean? It means you can control and interact with your physical devices, your security cameras, your thermometer, seamlessly using natural language from an LLM host such as Claude Desktop or Cursor. The hub is a gateway between AI and the physical world.

What could go wrong?

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chrisdalke ◴[17 May 25 01:49 UTC] No.44011435[source]▶
Cool! As a moonshot fun idea I’ve been interested in MCP as a way to use informal conversations to task robots. I’ll have to play around with this!

One example on unmanned boats: a human could radio to the boat over VHF and say “move 100 meters south”… that speech-to-text would feed to an LLM which extracts the meaning and calls the MCP.

I’ll have to install this and play around.

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sfeldma ◴[17 May 25 02:37 UTC] No.44011625[source]▶
Ya, sounds like a good idea to let the LLM do all the calculations and send simple instructions to boat. MCP tells it what data is available from the device.

I tried the MCP server with the demo (https://merliot.io/demo) using Cursor and asked:

What is the location of the "GPS nano" device?

The location of the "GPS nano" device is: Latitude: 30.448336 Longitude: -91.12896

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speerer ◴[17 May 25 06:09 UTC] No.44012353[source]▶
This seems like a residential address. Irrespective of whether the creator deliberately exposed it, I would be a little bit cautious about sharing it further.
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