
Hermes made me stop carrying my laptop then something inevitable happened
I’ve been using Hermes heavily on a VPS for ~2 months, mostly through Telegram on my phone. It’s become useful enough that I carry my laptop less.
But when the Hermes gateway died while I was outside, I realized I had no easy recovery path without my laptop. SSH from Android works after setting up Tailscale + keys, but the phone terminal UX is pretty bad.
So I’m wondering: if Hermes makes phone-first agent usage viable, do we also need a better mobile “VPS rescue console” for restarting gateways, checking logs/status, and running basic recovery commands?
Curious how others handle this:
- Do you run Hermes on a VPS?
- What do you do when the gateway dies?
- Do you SSH from your phone?
- Is Termux/JuiceSSH/Termius enough?
- Or would a simple Android rescue app for agent VPSes be useful?