Architecture
HERMES architecture is based on a software-defined HF transceiver setup (currently sBitx is the main target). HERMES has an easy to use Web-based graphical user-interface, which provides access to to radio control parameters, UUCP queue management, call scheduling, messaging system, email management and other administrative tasks.
sBitx: https://www.hfsignals.com
Apart of the hardware, the main components are (from bottom to top in the network layers):
- Modem: Works with VARA, Ardop or Mercury. Mercury at https://github.com/Rhizomatica/mercury
- UUCP: HERMES default transport protocol is UUCP, used as available in Debian / RaspiOS uucp package
- HERMES API: PHP API backend https://github.com/Rhizomatica/hermes-api
- HERMES GUI: Web-based web interface: https://github.com/Rhizomatica/hermes-gui
- HERMES NET: A set of network subsystems. Includes UUCP <-> Modem bridge solution (uucpd), control software with websockets communication (eg. trx_v2-userland), email compression / transcoding solutions (uuxcomp) and many scripts for uucp management, source compression and others: https://github.com/Rhizomatica/hermes-net