Run a 24/7 life-ops agent for media server and personal admin
A self-hosted agent on a Mac mini manages a media stack, Home Assistant, downloads, concert alerts, trip planning, fundraising, genealogy research and RSS feeds.
Done withOpenClawHermes Agent
- What they did
- The poster ran a self-hosted “life-ops” agent on a Mac mini that handled a media stack on an Unraid box, Home Assistant, archive.org downloads, and assorted personal admin jobs. They talked to it through a private Discord server, got high-priority alerts in Telegram, and aimed to have it work a ranked project list continuously while only escalating real decisions onto a separate “waiting on me” list.
- How it went
- It was useful enough to run for months, but the setup drifted: tasks vanished, completed items reappeared, jobs were marked done incorrectly, and Discord conversations got laggy and forgetful. Those reliability issues pushed the poster to rebuild the system around a single source of truth and external checks before anything counts as done.
- Worth knowing
- It took a few weeks of trial and error to reach the initial workflow, and the main catch was that without one underlying record, the agent’s tracking lists kept diverging.
Try it yourself with OpenClaw
Act as my always-on home and life admin agent on this machine. Start with [media server and downloads, Home Assistant, concert alerts for [artists], RSS feeds on [topics]], and send me a short daily summary of what you did and anything needing attention. Finished means each job runs on a schedule and the summary arrives at [email or chat app]. Ask me before spending money, deleting files, or sending messages to other people.
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Source: Reddit · Jul 15, 2026
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