# Enabling WhatsApp on Hermes Agent self-hosted: three pitfalls (and how I overcame them)

> Source: <https://www.lucasaguiar.xyz/posts/configuracao-whatsapp-hermes/>
> Published: 2026-06-24 12:45:00+00:00

I wanted a simple thing: to send a message to my AI agent via WhatsApp. The
[Hermes Agent](https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent), from Nous Research,
promises exactly that — you spin up the gateway and talk to it via Telegram,
Discord, Slack, **WhatsApp**, Signal, or email. In theory, it’s one command: `hermes whatsapp`

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In practice, I ended up struggling until I discovered the simplest alternative. This
post is an honest account of **what I tested, what didn’t work, and what did work**
— with real logs. If you run Hermes in Docker (especially within an
unprivileged LXC container with data on NAS, like me), you’ll probably hit the same three
pitfalls.