Beehive
Infrastructure
self-hosted automation
SHOW HN2017
247points
44comments
#107of 2,242 in 2017
Top 5%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Execution: 1 for, 3 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Lighter and easier to deploy than Huginn
From 1 comment
huginn is a great project, by all means keep using it! The need for Beehive originally stemmed from our local hacker space, where we wanted to run a little daemon for…
mueslix on HN
Open source is appreciated
From 1 comment
This looks amazing. Thank you for making it available as open source -- I can see how a vibrant community could ensure quality and up to date modules.
andrei_says_ on HN
Objections
Does not work on Windows out of the box due to dependencies
From 3 comments
Documentation doesn't mention it, but this appears to not work on Windows - at least not out of the box. Annoying to go to the trouble of downloading it to try, to discover it…
aryehof on HNThis actually seems to be a problem with certain test fixtures in one of the dependencies: (github.com/ChimeraCoder/anaconda) . The offending files are:…
Intermernet on HNEDIT: There are some more issues! It uses github.com/guelfey/go.dbus which as far as I can tell will never really work on Windows.
Intermernet on HN
Requests
Enable or disable bees at build time
From 1 comment
The dbus-bee obviously won't run on Windows, but it's not a hard dependency of Beehive. You can simple comment out the import of any Bee in beehive.go. There's a discussion to be…
mueslix on HN
Questions
Difference between Beehive and Huginn
From 1 comment
I have been using huginn for more than one year and I am very satisfied. What's the difference between huginn and beehive?
roylez on HN
Are there other open source event and agent tools
From 1 comment
"Shortly" we had that topic here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441913 But most of the stuff is not alive anymore... But there are some interesting new ones:…
lop on HN
Alternatives named
Huginn
From 2 comments
"Shortly" we had that topic here already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4441913 But most of the stuff is not alive anymore... But there are some interesting new ones:…
lop on HNI have been using huginn for more than one year and I am very satisfied. What's the difference between huginn and beehive?
roylez on HN
Node-RED
From 2 comments
Node-RED seems similar and looks like it has a nicer interface (I've not tried it though).
IshKebab on HNMaybe you could get some inspiration from http://nodered.org. It's pretty generic despite the IoT mention.
kawera on HN
Factor.io
From 1 comment
There is/was Factor.io, but I'm not sure its still active.
stephenr on HN
AWS Step Functions
From 1 comment
would love to use it. the only people i know who has something similar are - treeline.io which is backed by sailsjs. - aws step functions. Used to coordinate lambda functions.…
thawab on HN