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sfeldmaon Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

You don't need to enable the AI; it's optional. The web app has a full UI to manually work with your devices.

sfeldmaon Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

Thanks for the feedback; I'll revise the privacy section.

sfeldmaon A kernel developer plays with Home Assistant

I'm concerned about privacy also, especially with Home Assistant integrations that "dial home" to vendor's clouds. Your data is not private. Check out my project that puts privacy as a main feature: https://merliot.io.

sfeldmaon Show HN: Merliot – plugging physical devices into LLMs

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

sfeldmaon Show HN: Merle, an IoT framework written in Go

It is fun, but also serious.

sfeldmaon Show HN: Merle, an IoT framework written in Go

Good question. Short answer is MQTT wasn't needed. Merle uses JSON message over websockets sent on a broadcast message bus. The Thing or its UI subscribes to these JSON messages, similar to MQTT topics.