We thought about looking into a Sky calendar, but naturally for what they were offering we thought there had to be a self hosted solution.
Grocy seems to fit the bill and then some. The next challenge would be getting a touch display and mini computer to act as a kiosk to display it in the house somewhere.
Anyone else using grocy?
“ERP beyond your fridge” is a hilarious line as a role player. (Where it’d typically stand for erotic roleplay)
notices ur bulgogi OwO
uwu what’s this?
posted from my samsung smart fridge
I’m so Hexbear poisoned now that I legitimately can’t tell if this is a bit or not.
Who need they grocy ate?
No bits, only bites, of deliciously well organized meal plans!
broke: buying a $10 magnetic whiteboard and putting it on the fridge door (alternatively, if you have a fridge that isn’t a crazy color - just using an expo marker directly on it) so multiple people in the household can edit and view a grocery list
woke: building out a web-based self-hosted grocery list that you have to access via mini-computer kiosk displayed somewhere in the house
Hey we’ve been doing the whiteboard thing. It’s become a vector for paper mostly.
We just started the whiteboard and I’ve found I enjoy transcribing the list to paper so I can organize it according to the store’s layout. One Pass Per Aisle is the goal
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I have it as an add-on for home assistant, but I don’t really use it. I probably should.
The next challenge would be getting a touch display and mini computer to act as a kiosk to display it in the house somewhere.
Good time to use an old phone or tablet
Never heard of it before, but this speaks to the grizzled kitchen manager in me. I’d use the fuck out of it if I didn’t live alone. As it stands I’m seriously considering setting it up for me and my partner because we frequently shop for each other. I already optimize my shopping list by aisle to spend the minimum possible amount of time there, but this is a whole other level.
It looks ridiculously powerful and probably has use cases in busy households and for ND folks with executive function and/or sensory issues. I guess being self hosted you can use as much or as little of it as you need and be secure in the knowledge that your shopping habits aren’t being tracked by yet another corporate entity.
There’s a standalone desktop app if building out a server is overkill.
just type a list in the notes app in your phone. how could this level of complication possibly be necessary
Self hosting services like this is a hobby for technical people, I can see the appeal of something like this to help coordinate shopping and meal planning for a large family. Nothing wrong with either approach imo
Once you have the infrastructure to self host stuff (literally just an old PC running proxmox in a corner) it’s kinda fun just messing with hosting your own open source services.
I set up a bunch for my job since we had no project management infrastructure and now I’m addicted to running containers.
Yeah, I host plenty of things out of my house at this point. Some are more useful than others. Hell, the bot that posts news to news.abolish.capital sits on a rack in my basement. Jellyfin at this point is like critical infrastructure. But I also host things like Homarr and use it as a homepage for myself. When me and my SO were talking last night, she brought up the Skylight calendar, and my first thought was, “Wait, it’s just a calendar, and a task tracker? Someone has to have made something like this before.”. Then she told me the price for the largest one, $700, and that’s when I said that thought out loud. After like 5 minutes of googling I came across Grocy and it’s basically the same thing, except I can host it. The only thing for me to solve is to get a little computer (I have an old rpi doing nothing) and a touch-screen monitor set up to launch the site in some kind of kiosk arrangement, and mount it somewhere useful.
We use another system for saving our recipes and sharing them with people, but Grocy could replace that and might encourage us to meal plan more. Since we can take those recipes we have and turn them into an actual plan that I don’t have to keep in my head (thanks ADHD).
One lesson you learn fast is no one will want to use your self-hosted doodads if they already have something that works. For my SO, she was feeling the limitations of both Google Calendar and our Whiteboard. The Skylight calendar is what she thought of because she’s had to set one up at her job in the past. I don’t think I would have even bothered looking if I wasn’t actively hosting a bunch of other things for myself. We’ve talked in the past about finding a better way to keep documentation and information about the shit in the house too: water heater, septic, lawn equipment, etc. All those things have maintenance that needs to be tracked, and I’m pretty sure Grocy could help me track that stuff too.
I’ve been thinking and setting up grocy for the same reasons actually lol, I have a little VPS id probably toss it on. Too often I get told “we need groceries” with no direction, then when I get back I’m in trouble because I missed something that everyone else also missed.
Agreed, I love tinkering with stuff like this. When I discovered containers it really opened up a lot of shit for me, but I’m at a stage where something has to provide more time/effort savings than I’d put into setting it up. And I need it to be robust, I spend plenty of time fixing broken software at my day job, I have zero interest in babysitting shit at home.
Deluge, Navidrome, Tandoor, and paperless-ngx have been good to me so far. Wanna try Home Assistant and Jellyfin next but can’t make the time.
And I need it to be robust, I spend plenty of time fixing broken software at my day job, I have zero interest in babysitting shit at home.
I set up our stack 3 years ago at work and have only had to touch it twice. It’s honestly impressive how robust this stuff can be
Just have a functioning brain!
I have two kids with their schedules every week, my list of shit to do, grocery lists to contribute to, house bullshit to track, while my brain can’t keep more than a week worth of important information in it, instantly vaporizes any knowledge of what is in our fridge and freezer the second it’s put away, and my poor SO has to deal with my ADHD bullshit. We wouldn’t be looking at something like this if “just type a list in the notes app” was a viable solution.
I put together a lot of computerized solutions to problems for the family. Even a shared phone app list was too much and we settled on a self-hosted mini notepad carpet taped to the fridge with a bic pen on a string duct taped to it.
When it’s time to go shopping whoever does it just tears off the list and buys the stuff on it. The notepad is extensible by standard sized post it notes and any pen will work when the initial one fails.
This is not a sardonic joke meant to make fun of you. When the original pad ran out of sheets my wonderful partner wowed everyone with their foresight in putting the tape strip about a half an inch down from the top of the pad by simply yanking off the bound part and clipping a new pad to the old cardboard backing.
Now if we ever end up in the dream house with a big enough basement and pantry to accommodate two freezers and a spare fridge then yes, imma dig this thread up and set up digitally mediated fifo shopping.
Great example of how developers think vs end users. And I say this with love!
I’ve seen someone on Mastodon post about using it. Seemed pretty impressive but I don’t have my shit together like that.
i self-host a lot of stuff but i dont see this particular thing being necessary
It’s really cool, but yeah definitely overkill. Didn’t try the calendar stuff much. I do like being able to make meal plans based on actual inventory levels, but obviously it’s a lot of maintenance to get to that point (probably easier to manage if you set up the barcode scanning and everything). I probably would have gone harder into it if the recipe builder was a little easier to use or if it integrated with something like Mealie.
Yeah, we have a recipe app that’s pretty bare bones right now (recipya), but the best part about it is you can feed it a URL or PDF. It will turn that shit into a functional recipe entry, which is a godsend. I think there is a plugin that can add the URL -> Recipe entry into Grocy, but I’d have to play with it. Worst case, there is probably an API in both systems I can exploit that would sync one to the other.
Mealie does this, and is pretty good at it. It’s got an API too, so should be possible to hook up together somehow, but I’ve never gone that far with it.
Grocy!
How does this site have 420 emojis from some 90 download twine pile but not one yoshi emoji?
She grocy on my home server till I get off my ass and buy bread and milk
