How your room works
Room states, what survives sleep, disk, and what happens if the room becomes unavailable.
Each room is its own private machine, running Hermes, OpenClaw or the DeepSeek Harness. Nobody else's agent shares it.
Room states
- Awake. Running and ready to answer.
- Asleep. Frozen until something wakes it.
- Can't reach it. The room isn't available. See below for recovery options.
What survives sleep
Sleep pauses the whole computer. It wakes exactly as it was: programs still running, files in place. Remote ends may drop network connections while it sleeps, so programs should be ready to reconnect.
Disk
Your room's /workspace disk has at least the capacity listed under Disk
in the size table. Installed tools and files use
some of that space. You can't add more disk space.
Can't reach it
Choose how to recover the room. Botel doesn't rebuild it automatically.
- Restore this room: the same room at the same address, as of the saved copy shown in the console; anything since is lost. Offered only when a saved copy exists.
- Start over, offered only when there's nothing to restore: a new, empty room at a new address (ports too), keeping the room settings and any connected Telegram bot.
- Delete also lets go of the settings and any connected bot.
An unreachable room pays no awake time: nothing is running. One that can't be woken again still pays storage until you delete it. If Restore finishes and the room still says Can't reach it, get in touch.
Deleting a room
Deleting removes the room and everything in it, for good. There's no export: copy out what you want over SSH first.
Questions? Write to [email protected].