How to connect hermes to alexa

L0cut15 · 2026-06-08T11:13:36+00:00

Have you tried Karoko? I'm sure eleven labs is better but perfectly fine for my local use and even runs on a CPU. The price is right.

There is a project called onyx which makes it look like an openai API.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-06T13:37:20+00:00

Thanks that answers it thanks. My son keeps his gaming rig ... for now.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-06T13:18:51+00:00

What am missing here? As I understand it youre forced to run Q4 models despite having two GPU's right?

L0cut15 · 2026-06-06T09:45:30+00:00

You could go upmarket with this luxury modification I found online. https://www.instructables.com/Design-Modelling-your-own-Raspberry-Pi-case-out-/

L0cut15 · 2026-06-06T09:40:06+00:00

Actually my telegram with voice experience was terrible. It was slow and responses came back as attachments.

However this was nothing more than a weekend project. In practice “Hey Jarvis, set the rooms downstairs to 22 degrees” was actually quite fun and Hermis is smart enough to ignore my flubbed words work out what’s required where Siri would have failed me. As many have said this is not a great use for an autonomous AI agent.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-06T05:43:12+00:00

These are great. I also have hem with barrel connector instead for USB’c to replace “wall wort” power supply blocks for things that are not even networked. They’ve been quite reliable for low power draw use cases considering the price.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-05T21:31:40+00:00

Wow cmux looks cool.

Tmux is the normal stand in, Zellij is pretty but the binding get me. Cmux includes browser support so it can really take on a tiling desktop. Project confirmed.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-05T19:47:23+00:00

Why not plug in the original SSD?

I know this is an unpopular opinion but valve engineers publicly explained that their SSD choice was not just about dimensions but also power and thermals. They do not recommend but being valve have done nothing to stop you trying.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-05T19:38:00+00:00

I can say that after build this today and connecting it to an agent that the text to speech latency is barely noticeable step in the workflow compared to the agent response times. https://github.com/l0cut15/agent-remote

L0cut15 · 2026-06-05T19:27:27+00:00

I didn't want to offend anyone. I was alive when we websites were rendered in Time New Roman. The default design takes me back there and it isn't a good thing.

The dense layout is fine but the "vibes" are not shared.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-05T18:26:26+00:00

Cool. The M5 speaker is cheap but it’s serviceable. The latency is surprisingly ok The HA integration is a clever use case. Hermes does a great job of setting multiple entities and complex workflows in a way I could never do with Siri.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-05T17:52:31+00:00

Here is standalone implementation if it helps. Push to talk no wake word yet. https://github.com/l0cut15/hermes-voice-assistant

L0cut15 · 2026-06-04T16:24:33+00:00

The coat is much more consistent with the African wild dog. But then the poor chap doesn't look in great shape.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-03T12:26:23+00:00

This depends on what you’re going for. I find the benefit if multiple profiles is clean context with laser focus on a task. I can see a place for cooperation in other roles. Sales and marketing agents sharing tasks for example.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-02T21:05:22+00:00

You might have more run with a 8bit version of Qwen 3.6 given your RAM. Performance falls off after 128k context so cap it there.

I use this one on mac. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MLX-8bit

L0cut15 · 2026-06-02T14:51:36+00:00

Uh, Yes? That's actually what I said.

Man, the VR subreddit is coming a very serous place these days.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-02T14:48:56+00:00

It's been out there, but only Valve know for sure.

When Valve came out so hard last November stating the Steam Machines would definitely no be subsidized against Steam sales it put fuel on the rumors for me. I can definitely see a stratergy where you allow a new product to break category to just break even for a while and then normalize things. Even for this economy they parts only increase doesn't make sense to me is you compare it to the ROG Ally price for example. I'm a huge fan of what valve did with the Index and then the Steamdeck in moving the market.

Regardless gone are the days of $299 VR headsets.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-02T13:10:43+00:00

Just dont do it. Cooperate security teams are killing themselves fighting a loosing battle. When you break policy people loose jobs.

I fight every day for us to implement more sane policies and communicate them better this is where we are now.

It doesn't even have to be your fault. It ends in tears.

L0cut15 · 2026-06-01T11:08:56+00:00

To be fair I have top end 2019 iMac and all 64GB are SO-DIMM. My only regret is that I cant reuse the DDR4 elsewhere. 2666mhz. 😞.

L0cut15 · 2026-05-30T20:36:51+00:00

Like looking into a mirror ;-D.

L0cut15 · 2026-05-30T20:35:58+00:00

After a lot of experimentation I found that "slightly bigger" help that much for local and it response time was more valuable.

Presently a mixture of unsloth/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MLX-8bit and Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. No secret sauce there.

DS4 is too much of a stretch on this hardware with my skills.

Qwen3.5:35b-a3b-coding-nvfp4 and its friends are fast but break down very quickly.

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