Excellent overview! I've been running grocy for a few years now. When connected to Home Assistant, grocy's chores feature is unparalleled - I have cheap IOT buttons around the house to track chores e.g. Dishwasher + Detergent consumption in one go.
Yes that was a bit sad but funny. What I could not convey, was the emphasis she put on it! No wiggle room for negotiation, so I realised that was a lost cause. But that feature can still be useful for more limited items like medicines etc. Yes must say I love that iCom radio for it's absolute ease of plug in the USB cable and don't worry much further, and secondly its menus and touch screen is just way more intuitive than the Yaesu FT991A. Using the Yaseu now as a dedicated APRS digipeater for the moment.
I'm not sure specifically but I did see in the app that it supported a number of different barcode standards. Problem with actual barcode databases is that every shopping franchise uses different databases and barcodes, or at least per country etc. So the approach seemed to be scanning what you regularly buy, and building up your own collection of items. I do see some discussion on barcodes at www.reddit.com/r/grocy/comments/bhf86s/how_to_use_barcodes_in_grocy/.
Thanks, as I understand it the consume refers to present tense "busy using". So if onlya quarter remains, and a recipe needs half, then you are short on that item. It should not allow you to consume more than is in the product, so if you have one product only then by 100% consumption it should be used/consumed. However if there are two products I think it assumes you start on the next of that product, starting with oldest one in inventory. This does get down to thos efiner details where I realised one would have to experiment a bit with dummy inventory, so that you can determine the right/best way to consume. One also has to setup such itms for part consumption such as flour, taht you take them into stock by weight, and not by a single bag only. You define the 1 bag as having a weight. Milk would be defined as 1 carton but havinga volume of 1L so taht it can be part consumed. So yes quite a bit of plannijng and thought before just piling items in and then having to go fix it all. Question is also whether you'd want to part consume everything that way, as maybe some items you buy weekly anyway.
No, it is just a barcode scanner - I seem to recall it only matches the code against an existing item you already had in stock - so more for restocking of items before you toss the old container away.
Excellent overview! I've been running grocy for a few years now. When connected to Home Assistant, grocy's chores feature is unparalleled - I have cheap IOT buttons around the house to track chores e.g. Dishwasher + Detergent consumption in one go.
Thanks, yes it can really shine where someone is prepared to use that amazing tracking that it has!
He got to the task list where his wife was assigned the vacuum and then says...this is where it all died. LOLOL Also, saw the Icom radio....nice!
Yes that was a bit sad but funny. What I could not convey, was the emphasis she put on it! No wiggle room for negotiation, so I realised that was a lost cause. But that feature can still be useful for more limited items like medicines etc. Yes must say I love that iCom radio for it's absolute ease of plug in the USB cable and don't worry much further, and secondly its menus and touch screen is just way more intuitive than the Yaesu FT991A. Using the Yaseu now as a dedicated APRS digipeater for the moment.
Super useful overview, thank you!
Thanks for the positive feedback, glad you found it interesting.
Nice one. Is there anyway to connect Grocy to a BarreCode database? Or import one?
I'm not sure specifically but I did see in the app that it supported a number of different barcode standards. Problem with actual barcode databases is that every shopping franchise uses different databases and barcodes, or at least per country etc. So the approach seemed to be scanning what you regularly buy, and building up your own collection of items. I do see some discussion on barcodes at www.reddit.com/r/grocy/comments/bhf86s/how_to_use_barcodes_in_grocy/.
How did I miss this one!
You need to subscribe and tick the bell button ;-) Yes it can be quite useful even if only one or two of its functions are used.
Think it's a good overview, however the consume confuses me, after it's marked as openend when does when is it actually marked as consumed ?
Thanks, as I understand it the consume refers to present tense "busy using". So if onlya quarter remains, and a recipe needs half, then you are short on that item. It should not allow you to consume more than is in the product, so if you have one product only then by 100% consumption it should be used/consumed. However if there are two products I think it assumes you start on the next of that product, starting with oldest one in inventory. This does get down to thos efiner details where I realised one would have to experiment a bit with dummy inventory, so that you can determine the right/best way to consume. One also has to setup such itms for part consumption such as flour, taht you take them into stock by weight, and not by a single bag only. You define the 1 bag as having a weight. Milk would be defined as 1 carton but havinga volume of 1L so taht it can be part consumed.
So yes quite a bit of plannijng and thought before just piling items in and then having to go fix it all. Question is also whether you'd want to part consume everything that way, as maybe some items you buy weekly anyway.
Hi. Does it track macros too when you scan?
No, it is just a barcode scanner - I seem to recall it only matches the code against an existing item you already had in stock - so more for restocking of items before you toss the old container away.
Does it work with Alexa or GH? i'd love an OS voice enabled shopping list if you know of any?
Not yet, but you can follow the feature request logged at github.com/grocy/grocy/issues/236
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Thank you!