u/StainesMassiv

Help Understanding the Value Proposition of Base

Hi, I've only learned about Base Power recently and would like to understand the value proposition better by asking actual users why they purchased and were willing to pay for the system.

On their website they say they bring more 1) affordable, and 2) reliable energy. The reliability part is easy to understand given that batteries obviously can act as buffers that kick in in times of emergency. I also understand that some markets experience frequent power interruptions and severe weather that results in such interruptions every now and then.

What I'd like to understand better is the affordability proposition. Is that general or also related to eliminating costs that would otherwise be incurred due to exactly the same reliability issues with the status quo in their target markets? Asked differently, if someone lived in a market where they didn't have to deal with these frequent power interruptions, as their climate doesn't see storms or severe summers, and power from the utilities is very stable and if power goes out it's like once a year. Would people in such markets still benefit from installing something like Base?

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u/StainesMassiv — 14 days ago

Connect Hermes Desktop to VPS Backend Using SSH Tunnel?

[UPDATE - Fixed] I found out that the issue was me not having enabled the 'dashboard_auth/basic' plugin. Because I hadn't done that, the launch of the dashboard was failing and I was not aware of it because I run the dashboard inside a systemd background process. Once I enabled this plugin the below worked.

Hi, I have Hermes installed on a remote cloud-hosted VPS. I've setup my SSH config so that I forward my local ports to the remote VPS and so can run the Hermes Dashboard on the VPS and access it by going directly to http://127.0.0.1:9119 on my local machine.

Today I wanted to try the Hermes Desktop app, which has instructions on how to connect to a remote backend. The connection goes through the Hermes Dashboard, but it looks like it doesn't support the above setup and requires that you expose the Hermes Dashboard to the outer world, which I prefer not to do.

The issue I run into is that when I try to point the Hermes Desktop to my dashboard by using http://127.0.0.1:9119 as the backend URL, it pings the dashboard and sees that auth hasn't been enabled, and so asks for a session token which I don't have.

Is there no way to achieve what I'm trying to do above?

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u/StainesMassiv — 2 months ago