Voice feature broken: hardcoded ElevenLabs agent IDs prevent self-hosted voice

[Ashkaan]

Problem

The voice feature in Happy Coder does not work for users because the ElevenLabs Conversational AI agent IDs are hardcoded to the Happy team's ElevenLabs account.

From the source code:

agentId: __DEV__ ? 'agent_7801k2c0r5hjfraa1kdbytpvs6yt' : 'agent_6701k211syvvegba4kt7m68nxjmw'

There is no way for users to provide their own ElevenLabs API key or agent ID. The voice feature appears to activate (the voice button works, "Happy here" greeting plays) but transcription never fires and the conversation loop fails.

Expected behavior

Users should be able to:

1. Provide their own ELEVENLABS_API_KEY as an environment variable
2. Have Happy auto-create a voice agent in their ElevenLabs account (like HAPI does)
3. Or specify a custom ELEVENLABS_AGENT_ID

Environment

• happy-coder: v0.13.0
• Platform: Linux (Ubuntu 24.04)
• iOS app: latest from App Store

Related issues

This affects 20+ existing voice-related issues including #241, #576, #402, #410, #546, #624, #397.

Workaround

Switched to HAPI (@twsxtd/hapi) which allows users to bring their own ElevenLabs API key.

[haveaguess]

I guess they are trying to monetise and lockdown

[ex3ndr-bot]

Thanks for reporting this! 🙏 This is on our radar and we're actively working on a fix. Will push an update ASAP. Stay tuned!

[yakshaving]

Any hints on when this might be merged in? I can fork but also happy to wait

[bra1nDump]

hey @Ashkaan, your analysis was spot on about the hardcoded agent IDs - this is tracked in #68. you can now configure your own ElevenLabs agent ID in Settings > Voice. update the app and check it out?