Use as an alternative to Magic Home Inventory?

[jose1711]

I am currently using Magic Home Inventory (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.twisterrob.inventory&gl=US) on Android smartphone to keep track of items and locations at my apartment but the application does not integrate a shared access/multiple users approach so I am looking for something else.

One thing MHI is strong at is that you can have an item encapsulated in another item at will (https://www.twisterrob.net/project/inventory/#model). There is no concept of locations and this design works pretty well for my use case. As a consequence you can have things like CR2032 => Rear bicycle light => Bicycle => Garage.

I was trying to achieve the same with PyInventory but failed. Is there any chance to modify it in a way that would be very close to this design or I should look elsewhere?

Thank you.

[jedie]

This is possible: a item can have a parent item.
So you can create these items: CR2032 => Rear bicycle light => Bicycle.

And a location Garage.
Then "put" the Bicycle into the Garage by set the location on the Bicycle item to the Garage location 😉

[jose1711]

Thank you @jedie I gave it a shot but PyInventory does not give me the option to set a second level item as a parent. It only shows top-level item in the parent drop-down, that means I am able to do:

Rear bicycle light => Bicycle
CR2032 => Bicycle

Am I doing something wrong?

[jedie]

Yes, every item can have one one parent. But you should made a chain!
Maybe this is a other concept than magic home.

The CR2032 battery has as parent the light and this has as parent the Bicycle and this has no parent, but the location garage.

[jose1711]

Exactly, I am trying to make a chain. Will try to add some pictures. This is the current situation:

Now I want battery to become a "child" of Rear light. So I open it:

Now I expand parent dropdown:

And here is the problem - bicycle light cannot be selected (its entry is missing).

[jedie]

Ah, sorry. You are right. I filter the parent list and exclude all "sub" entities. So a chain can't be made. Sorry, for concussion.

[jedie]

I'm work on a solution, looks like:

here: #106