turn-bell

A bell in the Hermes desktop composer that pings the ntfy topic Hermes already uses when a turn finishes. Click to cycle off, current turn, or all turns. Disclosure — when enabled, posts the first line of each finished reply plus model, duration, token and cost figures to the ntfy server/topic Hermes is configured with (default ntfy.sh); reads NTFY_* from the profile .env and falls back to the ntfy CLI's ~/.config/ntfy/client.yml login (read-only).

BrokeSkillDesktopv1.0.1Updated 1 month ago

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A bell in the Hermes desktop composer that pings the ntfy topic Hermes already uses when a turn finishes. Click to cycle off, current turn, or all turns. Disclosure — when enabled, posts the first line of each finished reply plus model, duration, token and cost figures to the ntfy server/topic Hermes is configured with (default ntfy.sh); reads NTFY_* from the profile .env and falls back to the ntfy CLI's ~/.config/ntfy/client.yml login (read-only).

Turn Bell

A bell in the Hermes desktop composer that pings you when a turn finishes, over the ntfy topic Hermes is already configured for. Nothing to set up.

The bell cycling from off to current turn to all turns

Install

From the Hermes plugin catalog, or:

hermes plugins install https://github.com/BrokeSkill/turn-bell

Then enable turn-bell in Settings > Plugins and restart the desktop app. The bell is in the composer row.

Usage

Click the bell to cycle modes, hold it for half a second to open the status panel.

The status panel showing the resolved topic, server, and auth mode

| Mode | Icon | Pings |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Off | moon | never |
| Current turn | bell | when the turn you are watching finishes |
| All turns | bell with a dot | on every finished turn |

The mode survives a restart.

The status panel shows the topic the ping will land on and a Send test ping button, so you find out whether pings can leave the machine before you walk away from it.

The notification

The title says complete, failed, or interrupted, with the model. The body is the first line of the answer, then model, how long the turn took, and tokens in and out. A failure arrives high priority with a warning tag, so it does not read like a success in the list.

Rapid completions collapse into one message, so four turns in a row do not become four notifications.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

README from the reviewed commit b39808e; it updates when the author re-pins.

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