Set up a family home chat server by phone
A Hacker News user has a home server running a local language model, with Open WebUI as the interface. The teenager in the house has their own account on the home network. An agent using the same model set up the server and handled the accounts, all driven from the phone through Hermes Agent. He thinks local models are fine for ordinary questions and troubleshooting. It is a comment in a discussion, not a guide.
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What was done
A Hacker News user has a home server running a local language model, with Open WebUI as the interface. The teenager in the house has their own account on the home network. An agent using the same model set up the server and handled the accounts, all driven from the phone through Hermes Agent. He thinks local models are fine for ordinary questions and troubleshooting. It is a comment in a discussion, not a guide.
How to do it
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Try it with Hermes
Set up [chat interface] on [home server] against the model [local model], reachable only on the home network. Create accounts for [family members] with their own passwords that I set myself. Briefly explain each step before you run it. Show me which ports and services will be open. You are done when each account can log in from another device at home and the service cannot be reached from outside.
Replace text in brackets with your own.
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