Learn how to set up a Hermes AI agent on Telegram so you can chat with it from your phone. You'll create a bot through BotFather, grab your Telegram ID with IDBot, plug those credentials into Hermes, then approve the connection and start chatting with /new and /help commands.
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Hermes does not have a web-based interface, chat interface, like OpenClaw does. So you either need to use something like Telegram or you can use terminal, and I'm gonna show you how to do both. So, uh, the first thing we need is a bot token. So we come over here to Telegram and you go to the user Botfather, and I'm gonna create a new one here. So I'm gonna type /bot New Bot, and you need to give it a name, and you can call it anything you want. It's like a handle. Uh, I tend to like to call mine by the same as their user ID. So here we are, and right here is our token. So I'm going to click it and come over here and paste it right here. And now I need the user ID of my Telegram user. So I use IDBot. Um, first time you come here, it just tells you who you are, and right there is my user ID. And you want the number, not the username. I'm going to paste that right here, and I'm going to click pay and deploy. Here's how you can log into the web app. So we're going to do that real quick. Pull up a new tab, and the username is always admin, but The password is different for everybody, of course. And we'll sign in. Now, there's a ton of stuff you can do in here. You can manage a lot of what, what Hermes is doing. You just can't communicate with it. So there's analytics, models, logs, all that stuff. I mentioned earlier that it's easy to change your ChatGPT if you need to. That's where you do it right here under models. Change, and you just pick one. I'm gonna go back to Botfather, and I created that new bot, and you can click right here to open it up. Click start, and Hermes doesn't know what start is, so we're gonna do commands, and here's a whole bunch of stuff. What we're going to do is /new. There we are. And, uh, we need to approve this new chat. So I'm going to approve. Actually, either you can do once or always, it doesn't matter. I'm going to do always approve. And there we are. So now we can say hello, and it tells us that it needs, uh, a home channel. So I'm going to do this, but Hermes is there and sees us now. So I'm going to do set home. And there we are. So Hermes is connected now. You can do /help, see available commands, and these are Hermes commands. So that's it.
