# \[HOWTO\] Begin your Open Voice OS journey with the ovos-installer 💖 😍

**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/howto-begin-your-open-voice-os-journey-with-the-ovos-installer/14900
**Category:** OpenVoiceOS's Voice AI Platform
**Tags:** ovos, ovos-installer, howto, raspberrypi, quickstart
**Created:** [May 10, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/howto-begin-your-open-voice-os-journey-with-the-ovos-installer/14900 "2024-05-10T01:31:53Z")
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### Author: ![Marph](https://community.openconversational.ai/user_avatar/community.openconversational.ai/marph/32/7701_2.png) [@Marph](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Marph)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/howto-begin-your-open-voice-os-journey-with-the-ovos-installer/14900/166 "2025-07-19T21:11:21Z")

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Not sure if this is the right place for the report. `ovos-installer` fails, because [https://whl.smartgic.io/](https://whl.smartgic.io/) seems to be down (HTTP 503). Anyone else experiencing this issue?

```auto
TASK [ovos_installer : Create /home/user/.venvs/ovos Python venv with tflite_runtime] ****************************
Saturday 19 July 2025 23:02:19 +0200 (0:00:01.119) 0:00:13.732 ********* 
fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": ["/home/user/.venvs/ovos-installer/bin/uv", "pip", "install", "--python", "/home/user/.venvs/ovos/bin/python", "--trusted-host", "whl.smartgic.io", "-f", "https://whl.smartgic.io", "tflite_runtime"], "msg": "\n:stderr: Using Python 3.12.3 environment at: /home/user/.venvs/ovos\nerror: Failed to read `--find-links` URL: https://whl.smartgic.io/\n Caused by: Request failed after 3 retries\n Caused by: Failed to fetch: `https://whl.smartgic.io/`\n Caused by: HTTP status server error (503 Service Unavailable) for url (https://whl.smartgic.io/)\n"}

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