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Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

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78 points sfeldma | 3 comments | 17 May 25 01:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.647s | 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?

1. spaceport ◴[17 May 25 15:21 UTC] No.44014966[source]▶
Ive been using the ollama nextcloud integration for a while and while rough at times it does work to control many devices. Lights and music. Very nontrivial to get it working consistantly however so maybe this could work. Not going to connect it to cloud claude however.

Also for the author in case they read this, the central/decentral hub architecture writing in privacy section is overly complex. Simplify it as "locally hosted, not cloud connected"

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2. ravetcofx ◴[17 May 25 16:52 UTC] No.44015528[source]▶
do you have more info on this? I'm curious what nextcloud integration has to do with smart home stuff.
3. sfeldma ◴[17 May 25 17:06 UTC] No.44015606[source]▶
Thanks for the feedback; I'll revise the privacy section.