tinyhumansai/openhuman · error

missing value for --hotkey

Error message

missing value for --hotkey

What it means

Hand-rolled CLI parsing for `openhuman voice`: the --hotkey flag was the last token with no following argument to consume as the key combo. The command aborts before any runtime or config load.

Source

Thrown at src/openhuman/voice/cli.rs:35

/// Supported flags:
///   --hotkey <combo>   Key combination (default from config, usually `fn`)
///   --mode <tap|push>  Activation mode (default push)
///   --skip-cleanup     Skip LLM post-processing on transcriptions
///   -v / --verbose     Enable debug logging
///   -h / --help        Print usage
pub(crate) fn run_standalone_subcommand(args: &[String]) -> Result<()> {
    let mut hotkey: Option<String> = None;
    let mut mode: Option<String> = None;
    let mut skip_cleanup = false;
    let mut verbose = false;
    let mut i = 0usize;

    while i < args.len() {
        match args[i].as_str() {
            "--hotkey" => {
                hotkey = Some(
                    args.get(i + 1)
                        .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("missing value for --hotkey"))?
                        .clone(),
                );
                i += 2;
            }
            "--mode" => {
                mode = Some(
                    args.get(i + 1)
                        .ok_or_else(|| anyhow!("missing value for --mode"))?
                        .clone(),
                );
                i += 2;
            }
            "--skip-cleanup" => {
                skip_cleanup = true;
                i += 1;
            }
            "-v" | "--verbose" => {
                verbose = true;

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Solutions

1. Provide a value after --hotkey, e.g. `openhuman voice --hotkey fn+f2`
2. Run with -h to see the accepted flags

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at src/openhuman/voice/cli.rs:35 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of tinyhumansai/openhuman@7491200858 (2026-08-17). Data as JSON: /api/errors/8473bd88cbce4d57. Report an issue: GitHub.