hm_comparison.md

HiveMind Server Setups

When building your HiveMind servers there are many ways to go about it, with many optional components

Common setups:

• OVOS Device, a full OVOS install without hivemind
• Hivemind Device, a OVOS device also running hivemind, eg. a Mark2 with it's own satellites.
• Hivemind Skills Server, a minimal HiveMind server that satellites can connect to, supports text utterances only
• Hivemind Sound Server, a HiveMind server that supports text utterances and streaming audio
• Hivemind Persona Server, exposes a ovos-persona (eg. an LLM) that satellites can connect to, without running ovos-core.

The table below illustrates the most common setups for a OVOS based Mind, each column represents a running OVOS/HiveMind service on your server

	hivemind-core	hivemind-listener	ovos-core	ovos-audio	ovos-listener	hivemind-persona
OVOS Device	❌	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌
Hivemind Device	✔️	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	❌
Hivemind Skills Server	✔️	❌	✔️	❌	❌	❌
Hivemind Sound Server	❌	✔️	✔️	❌	❌	❌
Hivemind Persona Server	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✔️

The table below indicates compatibility for each of the setups described above with the most common voice satellites, each column corresponds to a different satellite

	voice satellite	voice relay	mic satellite
OVOS Device	❌	❌	❌
Hivemind Device	✔️	✔️	❌
Hivemind Skills Server	✔️	❌	❌
Hivemind Sound Server	✔️	✔️	✔️
Hivemind Persona Server	✔️	❌	❌

HiveMind Satellites

The table below illustrates how plugins from the OVOS ecosystem relate to the various satellites and where they should be installed and configured

Emoji Key

• ✔️: Local (on device)
• 📡: Remote (hivemind-listener)
• ❌: Unsupported

Supported Plugins	Microphone	VAD	Wake Word	STT	TTS	Media Playback	Transformers	PHAL
HiveMind Voice Satellite	✔️ (Required)	✔️ (Required)	✔️ (Required)	✔️ (Required)	✔️ (Required)	✔️ (Optional)	✔️ (Optional)	✔️ (Optional)
HiveMind Voice Relay	✔️ (Required)	✔️ (Required)	✔️ (Required)	📡 (Remote)	📡 (Remote)	✔️ (Optional)	✔️ (Optional)	✔️ (Optional)
HiveMind Microphone Satellite	✔️ (Required)	✔️ (Required)	📡 (Remote)	📡 (Remote)	📡 (Remote)	❌ (Unsupported)	❌ (Unsupported)	❌ (Unsupported)