Automation Recipes Lab Weekly Brief - Issue 001 Draft

Subject idea: Make your automations report problems before you notice them

This week's recipe

This week is about reliability: setting up a daily Hermes Agent update and health report on Windows.

The goal is simple: every morning, your automation machine checks for updates, restarts the Gateway if needed, runs diagnostics, checks browser-tool npm vulnerabilities, and sends a PASS/WARN/FAIL report to Discord.

Why it matters

Automation systems fail quietly when nobody checks them. A daily health report turns silent drift into visible status.

Copy/paste starter

schtasks /Create /TN "Hermes_Auto_Update_Health" /TR "C:\Path\To\hermes-auto-update-health.cmd" /SC DAILY /ST 03:15 /F

Full guide

Coming soon: Daily Hermes Auto-Update and Health Report on Windows

Related recipes

Windows Scheduled Task Watchdog for a Local Service
Home Assistant Discord Notification Starter

Next week

Home Assistant Discord alerts that are useful without becoming spam.