Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022

• barrier

  616 26,181 0.0 C

  Open-source KVM software

  

• stigg-example-todos

  4 6 5.4 TypeScript

  Headless pricing plans to launch pricing faster and make changes without engineering support

  

For us in FlyCode it's Stigg (https://stigg.io). Really streamlined the way we manage subscriptions and define pay blocks.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• display-switch

  123 2,778 6.5 Rust

  Turn a $30 USB switch into a full-featured multi-monitor KVM switch

I do the same thing (plug both computers directly into different inputs on the monitor but use a USB switch to switch the mouse & keyboard). If you install this software on both computers, you can eliminate the "switching via OSD" step, because it will watch for the USB connect / disconnect events and initiate the input switch automatically via the DDC connection to the monitors, so it gives you true one-touch KVM switching at the cost of a USB switch.

This works especially well in cases where an actual KVM switch would be expensive or unavailable (in my case, I'm switching three 4K HDR DisplayPort monitors, which would require a very expensive KVM switch).

https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch

• trackball

  104 715 1.8 C++

  A trackball mouse. Mechanical files, PCBs, and firmware all included.

Got one of these recently, they run qmk so easy to modify if that’s your thing: https://ploopy.co/

• hass-circadian_lighting

  10 746 4.4 Python

  Circadian Lighting custom component for Home Assistant

Somewhat similar, I've used a smart light (Philips Hue), Home Assistant (with a ConBee II zigbee dongle), and a lighting rhythm plugin (https://github.com/claytonjn/hass-circadian_lighting) to adjust brightness and color temperature. Much more expensive, but I get other benefits, like dimming lights nicely in the evening

• streamdeck-ui

  40 1,077 3.2 Python

  A Linux compatible UI for the Elgato Stream Deck.

Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of the Stream Deck. It is also supported on Linux by Open Source library and app. Very tempting.

https://github.com/timothycrosley/streamdeck-ui/

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