Mqtt

The departure board on my desk is great when I’m sitting at it. But the moment I actually need the information is when I’m getting ready to walk out the door — usually nowhere near the desk. So I added a second layer: proactive notifications on my phone. The setup I run Hermes agent — Nous Research’s open-source AI agent, in the same family as OpenClaw — on the Beelink mini PC. It’s scheduled to check in around the times I usually leave: once in the morning, once in the evening. ...

The question I ask every morning is whether to leave now or in ten minutes. The answer depends on things the timetable doesn’t tell you: is the train delayed, is it cancelled, and — the one that really matters — is it running short-formed? Five cars instead of ten means standing room only, and I’d rather know before I leave the house. So I built a tiny departure board and stuck it under my monitor. ...