🏠 Your Home AI Robot — A Friendly Guide (for humans of all ages)

What is this? You have your very own AI helper living on a computer in the cloud. It's like a robot butler: it can chat, read your files, search the web, run errands, and do research — and everything it does stays on your own machine. Nobody else can see it. Cool, right?

Where does it live? On your cloud computer at 187.77.10.11 — with fancy https:// addresses (the padlock 🔒 ones) so your browser treats it like a real, safe website.

🚪 The Doors (and what's behind each one)

Use the https:// doors (the 🔒 ones) — they're the safe, official entrances.

The old plain http://187.77.10.11:3000 and :3001 doors still work, but the https:// ones above are better (and needed for the microphone).

🔑 The Keys (usernames and passwords)

💡 First thing to do: in the Chat Room, click your name → Settings → change your password to something you'll remember. (The ones above are auto-generated robot passwords — safe, but hard to type!)

🧒 How to use each one (step by step)

1. 💬 The Chat Room (Open WebUI) — your AI pen pal

1. Open https://chat.srv1355057.hstgr.cloud in your browser.
2. Type the username and password from the table above.
3. Type a question in the box at the bottom and press Enter.
4. Watch the robot think (you'll see it working through its thoughts) — then it answers.

Handy tricks: - 📎 Upload a file (paperclip button) and ask questions about it — the robot reads your file and answers from it. This is called RAG, and it works great here! - 🌐 Let it search the internet: click the search/globe toggle in the chat box before asking. (It works, but results can be a bit generic — see "special instructions".) - 🎤 Talk to it! The microphone button works now that we have the https:// address. Click the mic, speak, and the robot listens (it types what you say, then answers). - ❓ Short questions work best. This robot thinks slowly (like a very careful turtle). Give it 30–60 seconds. A 3-word answer beats a 3-page essay.

2. 🎛️ The Control Room (Dashboard)

• Just open https://dash.srv1355057.hstgr.cloud — no password.
• You'll see all the robot's body parts (services) with green/red lights. Green = happy. Red = sad. If something's red, that's what to tell the assistant about.
• You can restart parts and see which "brain" (model) is running.

3. 🤖 The Robot Workers (n8n)

1. Open http://187.77.10.11:5678, log in with the creds above.
2. This is where you build automations: "When I get an email, save it to a spreadsheet" — like robot chores.
3. Start with a blank workflow and drag blocks. Don't worry about breaking anything — it's a test house, but try not to delete things other people made.

4. 🔎 The Research Helper (Perplexica)

• Just open http://187.77.10.11:3004 — no login.
• Ask a research question and it will look things up and write you a little report.
• Uses the same slow brain, so grab a snack while you wait. 🍪

5. 🧙 The Wizard (Hermes) — your personal AI agent (the special one!)

This one is the coolest: an AI that can actually do things — browse websites, use tools, even run commands on its own (with safety rules).

It has no password. Instead it uses a MAGIC LINK (like a golden ticket):

1. Open the Control Room (https://dash.srv1355057.hstgr.cloud).
2. Find the Invites page (sometimes called "Owner card" or "Hermes").
3. Click Create invite / Owner card — the robot makes a special one-time link.
4. Open that link on your phone or computer. It gives you a "golden ticket" (a cookie).
5. Now open https://hermes.srv1355057.hstgr.cloud — you're in! 🎩

The magic links now use the proper https:// address automatically, so they work from anywhere — phone, laptop, whatever.

🛠️ Special instructions for the last few things

1. 🐢 The robot is slow — that's normal. Your cloud computer is a small one with no graphics card, so the brain is small. Rules for happy chatting:
2. Keep questions short and simple.
3. Don't paste huge documents (long input = very long wait).
4. If an answer takes longer than ~3 minutes, something may be stuck — tell the assistant.
5. 🎤 Voice works now! Thanks to the https:// address, the mic button in the Chat Room works. (Microphones are only allowed on secure websites — that's a browser rule, and we fixed it by adding the padlock.)
6. 🎨 Making pictures is turned OFF. The art robot (ComfyUI) needs a graphics card this box doesn't have, so it was left out to save space. Don't hunt for the image button.
7. 🌐 Web search is "okay-ish". The search engines that give the best results (Google, DuckDuckGo) think our cloud computer is a robot and block it, so we use the ones that let us in (Bing, GitHub, Wikipedia...). Results can look a bit generic. The real fix: a free Brave Search API key (2,000 free searches/month) — ask the assistant to plug it in and search becomes genuinely good.
8. 🔒 It's YOUR private robot. Everything you type stays on your box — that's the whole point of owning it. But treat the URLs and the magic link like house keys: anyone who has them can use your robot. Don't post them publicly.
9. 🔁 If things break: the robot auto-heals (everything restarts itself). If the chat shows "Connection error" or just nothing happens, the "brain" service probably needs a nudge — the assistant knows the magic restart command.
10. 📝 The passwords above are the "spare keys" — they're stored safely on the server too (in /home/ubuntu/ods-env/webui_admin_pw on the machine), so you can always find them.

🚨 Don't-Panic Checklist

Normal things: slow answers, the robot "thinking" out loud, 30–60 second waits, occasional blank answers when the robot thinks too long.

Call the assistant when: every light in the Control Room is red, the chat gives "Connection error" that doesn't go away, or an answer takes more than ~3 minutes.

This guide lives at https://guide.srv1355057.hstgr.cloud/ and is also saved on the server at /home/ubuntu/ods-env/ODS-USER-GUIDE.md.