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Photon iMessage

Connect Hermes to iMessage through Photon. No Mac relay, no webhook.

After this videoYou can text your Hermes agent from any iPhone via iMessage

Photon is a managed service that connects Hermes to iMessage. It handles Apple line allocation and abuse prevention so you do not need a Mac relay. The architecture is a persistent gRPC connection, like Discord or Slack, with no webhook or public URL to manage.

About these resources. This episode explains how to set up Photon iMessage in Hermes. The Sources block names the Hermes docs page that backs every claim.

Sources · What this video distills

1 docs page · every command below traces to one of them

Primary guide

Photon iMessage

Commands shown · Copy and paste

each shows the source doc it came from

Setup Photon iMessagefrom source ↗

hermes photon setup --phone +155****4567

Start the gatewayfrom source ↗

hermes gateway start

Check Photon statusfrom source ↗

hermes photon status

Going deeper · Related Hermes docs

further reading · not sources of facts shown above

Messaging Platforms overview

All messaging integrations at a glance.

The simplest messaging platform to set up.

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