Connecting Hermes AI agent to Home Assistant voice
There is demand for connecting a Home Assistant voice assistant to a Hermes AI agent. The goal is to use the contacts and past conversations already available in the Hermes assistant during spoken conversations. The desired setup is simple: speak to the assistant, have Hermes understand the request, and hear a spoken reply back.
A setup outside Home Assistant may be possible, but the main question is whether the existing NABU CASA voice assistant can be used as the bridge. A clear, easy-to-follow working example is not obvious yet.
Key points
- The goal is to connect Hermes AI agent with Home Assistant voice.
- The wanted experience is two-way spoken conversation.
- Contacts and past conversation history are important parts of the desired setup.
- NABU CASA is the preferred bridge because it is already being used for voice.
- There does not appear to be a simple public walkthrough yet.
Quick term guide
- Home Assistant
- Free, open-source software that connects and controls smart home devices from one central dashboard.
- Hermes AI agent
- An AI helper based on Hermes that can chat and assist with tasks.
- AI agent
- An AI program that can inspect information and suggest what to do next.
- Nabu Casa
- A paid cloud service made by the team behind Home Assistant.
- tracking
- Collecting records of what a user does inside an app.
- hermes-agent
- A likely name for Nous Research’s agent-style AI tool or service.
- integration
- The work of connecting one tool or service into another product.
- import
- To bring a file or folder into a tool so it can use it.