Hermes Agent Full Tutorial for Beginners | FULL Setup Guide

Tech With Tim · Beginner ·🤖 AI Agents & Automation ·2mo ago

Skills: Agent Foundations80%Tool Use & Function Calling70%

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Sets up Hermes Agent, a self-hosted AI agent, for beginners

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Deploy Hermes with Hostinger in one click: https://www.hostg.xyz/SHJJB In this video, I walk through the complete setup of Hermes Agent — a self-hosted AI agent you can run on your own VPS or local machine, control from Telegram, and extend with custom skills, web search, voice output, and scheduled tasks.By the end of this tutorial you'll have a fully working Hermes Agent instance talking to you over Telegram, running skills on command, searching the web, speaking back with TTS, and executing tasks on a schedule — all running on infrastructure you own and control. 🚀 Tools I Use Get 10% off with code techwithtim Openclaw setup: https://www.hostinger.com/techwithtim VPS setup: https://www.hostinger.com/techwithtim10 Wispr Flow (Best AI Dictation): https://ref.wisprflow.ai/techwithtim Voice Mode Docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/guides/use-voice-mode-with-hermes Firecrawl: https://www.firecrawl.dev/ ⏳ Timestamps ⏳ 00:00 | Overview 00:35 | What is Hermes Agent 02:00 | Security & Risks 03:05 | VPS Setup 04:24 | Running on Your Own Device 05:11 | VPS Provisioning 06:30 | Model Configuration 07:20 | Telegram Setup 10:45 | TUI & Commands 12:00 | Running the Gateway 15:01 | Skills 16:35 | Adding Web Search 21:20 | Voice & Text to Speech 24:31 | Scheduled Tasks 27:36 | Important Details Hashtags #HermesAgent #Hermes UAE Media License Number: 3635141

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Chapters (15)

| Overview

0:35 | What is Hermes Agent

2:00 | Security & Risks

3:05 | VPS Setup

4:24 | Running on Your Own Device

5:11 | VPS Provisioning

6:30 | Model Configuration

7:20 | Telegram Setup

10:45 | TUI & Commands

12:00 | Running the Gateway

15:01 | Skills

16:35 | Adding Web Search

21:20 | Voice & Text to Speech

24:31 | Scheduled Tasks

27:36 | Important Details

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