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I have recently picked up XMPP as my agent communication layer, and its worked great. Each pi agent is given an account and wrapped in an XMPP client[0] that le

I have recently picked up XMPP as my agent communication layer, and its worked great. Each pi agent is given an account and wrapped in an XMPP client[0] that lets it speak to me and other agents when needed. This has worked well since I can spin up new accounts on demand and I can use existing server software (ejabberd, perfect) and clients (Fluux, great; Conversations, okay). I've had to make a few custom modifications to each client to make agent comms a bit nicer (e.g. exposing status messages more prominently since I use that to expose current agent commands), but the XMPP layer has had pretty much everything I could have wanted. Controlling a chat service is a bit intoxicating, I'm now using it as my notification service over a bunch of different projects. I used Google Chat way back, its nice that the tech is still around and great as ever. [0]: https://github.com/zachpmanson/pi-msg https://github.com/zachpmanson/pi-msg

gatlin 1mo ago
Amazing! Perhaps my project here would interest you. Also do you have bonjour support? https://github.com/gatlin/pii https://github.com/gatlin/pii
- pavo-etc 1mo ago
  Pii is interesting! pi-msg doesn't support bonjour, I'm running it on a nixos server (nix is the real secret ingredient of my whole setup) the xmpp server is the same machine as the agents. I'm almost always on a different network to the one where the server is. If the server goes down the agents and ejabberd are coming down simultaneously.
tehnoslow 1mo ago
Cool use case with the agents, hadn't thought of that
dhc02 1mo ago
This is really neat. I've recently been watching people use custom pi harnesses and thinking of jumping in, but I was dreaming of a way to do essentially what pi-msg does so that I could drive it remotely in a more full-featured way. Thanks for sharing.
- pavo-etc 1mo ago
  Thanks! I had the same urge, I didn't want to be responsible for an entire GUI and communication layer but I did want to have a remotely controllable extensible harness, this was the perfect middle ground. The benefit beyond that was having agents running on my server directly so they can do a lot of sysadmin and monitoring tasks, as well as suggesting config changes through PRs to my nix config.
  - dhc02 1mo ago
    Letting the agents bang their heads against the wall hunting down a config fix for a random malfunctioning piece of my homelab instead of me is by far my favorite part of the AI present.

gatlin 1mo ago

Amazing! Perhaps my project here would interest you. Also do you have bonjour support? https://github.com/gatlin/pii https://github.com/gatlin/pii

pavo-etc 1mo ago
Pii is interesting! pi-msg doesn't support bonjour, I'm running it on a nixos server (nix is the real secret ingredient of my whole setup) the xmpp server is the same machine as the agents. I'm almost always on a different network to the one where the server is. If the server goes down the agents and ejabberd are coming down simultaneously.

tehnoslow 1mo ago

Cool use case with the agents, hadn't thought of that

dhc02 1mo ago

This is really neat. I've recently been watching people use custom pi harnesses and thinking of jumping in, but I was dreaming of a way to do essentially what pi-msg does so that I could drive it remotely in a more full-featured way. Thanks for sharing.

pavo-etc 1mo ago
Thanks! I had the same urge, I didn't want to be responsible for an entire GUI and communication layer but I did want to have a remotely controllable extensible harness, this was the perfect middle ground. The benefit beyond that was having agents running on my server directly so they can do a lot of sysadmin and monitoring tasks, as well as suggesting config changes through PRs to my nix config.
- dhc02 1mo ago
  Letting the agents bang their heads against the wall hunting down a config fix for a random malfunctioning piece of my homelab instead of me is by far my favorite part of the AI present.