What an Echo Show 5 2nd Gen now looks like after I've had half a day to play around with it. Made possible with Omarchy, Hermes Agent, and @0xdippo's Echo integration. (no audio recorded in this demo)
Hermes Voice 0.2: my Echo Show 5 now has visual memory. Ask "what's on the desk?", cover the camera, take something away, ask "what did I take?" The vision runs locally: Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B on a Mac via…
Can an old Echo Dot run a real AI agent instead of Alexa? Yes. @0xdippo's Hermes Voice (MIT, 350 GitHub stars) turns one into a Home Assistant satellite for a Hermes Agent profile — with that…
My old Echo Dot run Hermes now, instead of Alexa. I built a Home Assistant integration that connects it to a Hermes profile, with its memory and tools. Code, setup skill and the hardware recovery…
Home Assistant voice stack integration for Hermes Agent — on-device voice control, wake word → STT → LLM → TTS → HA media_player. No cloud. No latency. No subscription.
☤ The official plugins for Hermes Agent, built and maintained by Nous Research: Home Assistant, Spotify, Claude Subscription DirectSDK and more, one install away from the Hermes plugin catalog.
Physical Hermes - Give your Hermes Agent a body. This turns a cheap AliExpress AI robot toy into a voice device for Hermes Agent — running entirely on your own machine, using your own model, with no vendor cloud in the loop.
