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kaneda c5c4049030 fix(api): watchdog con timeout su tutte le richieste — mai piu' attese infinite (v0.5.1)
Sintomo sul device: l'app restava sullo splash in caricamento per sempre.
Causa: QNetworkAccessManager non applica timeout — una richiesta che non
riceve risposta (rete del telefono, server occupato) lasciava la UI in
attesa infinita, senza errori visibili.

- ApiClient::armTimeout(): watchdog per reply (abort -> normale percorso
  d'errore del chiamante). Applicato a: checkAuth (12 s), login (20 s),
  refreshSessions e openSession (60 s), newSession/chat-start/switchProfile
  (20-30 s), fetchProfiles (20 s), transcribe (300 s), tts (120 s).
  Nessun watchdog sullo stream SSE (longevo per design).
- checkAuth: imposta lastError anche in errore (messaggio tradotto
  "Server not reachable (timeout)") e logga indirizzo ed esito
- refreshSessions: log della durata (misurato sul probe: il primo fetch
  dopo un cambio profilo puo' prendere 11-16 s lato server, anche su DB
  minuscolo — l'app ora lo gestisce senza sembrare bloccata)
- SplashPage: rete di sicurezza (se authChecked non arriva entro 15 s si
  va comunque al login) + log di instradamento
- i18n: nuova stringa tradotta it/fr/de
2026-09-13 07:37:12 +02:00

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harbour-hermes

Native Sailfish OS client for the Hermes Web UI (hermes-webui): chat with your Hermes agent from the phone — and use it with your voice.

Features

  • Sign in to your Hermes Web UI (session cookie persisted; password never stored)
  • Sessions list, new session, open any session
  • Chat with live streaming replies (SSE token deltas)
  • Voice dictation: tap Mic, speak, tap Stop → server-side Whisper transcription lands in the composer (optionally sent right away)
  • Read aloud: server-side TTS (voice/engine configurable) played through QMediaPlayer; optional auto-read of every completed reply
  • Voice dialog (hands-free): continuous listen → transcribe → send → read-aloud loop, auto-stopping on speech pauses (tunable)
  • Localized UI: English (source), Italian, French and German — follows the system language
  • Profile selection: pick which server profile's sessions to show (Settings → Sessions; per-client via the WebUI signed cookie)
  • Cancel a running turn, resync from server state, cover page

Requirements

  • Sailfish OS 4.4+ (developed against Sailfish 5.1)
  • A running hermes-webui instance reachable over HTTPS (the address is configured in the app — nothing is compiled in)
  • Sailjail permissions Internet;Audio;Microphone (declared in the .desktop)

Configuration

No configuration is compiled into the binary: everything lives in the app's Settings (persisted in ~/.config/harbour/hermes.conf, sandbox-persistent). Defaults are neutral — empty means "the server decides" — and the login screen requires a server address.

Setting Meaning
Server Hermes Web UI address, e.g. https://hermes.example.com (required)
Profile server profile whose sessions are shown (empty = server's active)
Read-aloud voice / TTS engine empty = server defaults
Voice/engine presets comma-separated lists used to fill the pickers
Read replies aloud auto-play every reply (off by default)
Send right after dictation auto-send when dictation lands (on by default)
Auto-stop pause / Mic sensitivity voice-dialog tuning (1.5 s / medium)
Max recording time voice-dialog safety cap (60 s)

Read-aloud voices depend on your server. The selected voice is sent to hermes-webui's /api/tts, which only accepts voices present in its Edge TTS allowlist (api/routes.py; upstream ships Chinese, English, French and Indonesian voices). If your server rejects a voice (400 invalid voice), pick another one, leave the voice empty (server default), or add your language's voices to your own hermes-webui.

Localization

The UI follows the system language: English is the source language, and Italian, French and German translations live in translations/*.ts. At build time (sailfishapp_i18n) the .qm files are generated and installed to /usr/share/harbour-hermes/translations, where the app loads them on startup. After changing UI strings:

lupdate -no-obsolete -recursive src qml \
    -ts translations/harbour-hermes-it.ts \
       translations/harbour-hermes-fr.ts \
       translations/harbour-hermes-de.ts
# then edit the .ts files and rebuild

Build

See docs/BUILD.md (Sailfish SDK, sfdk build / sfdk deploy) and docs/PROTOCOL.md for the HTTP/SSE protocol the app speaks (validated live against a real instance).

Status

Version 0.5.1 — protocol and C++ core validated against a real hermes-webui (login, sessions, streaming chat, TTS, STT, voice dialog, profile selection); UI in English, Italian, French and German; every request has a watchdog timeout (no infinite waits); on-device testing still ongoing.