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Remote Access

Remote Access is what makes Olace a network: pair your devices once, and the models on your computer are available on every device you carry, at home or a world away.

What a pairing is

A pairing is one device using the models on another.

  • A host shares its models. Computers host.
  • A consumer uses a host's models. Phones and tablets are always consumers; a computer can be either, so a laptop can use your workstation's models.

Pairings are directional: your phone using your computer is one pairing. Two computers using each other's models are two.

A host does not have to be the computer on your desk. A home server or a cloud VM with a GPU, running the headless daemon, hosts exactly the same way, and every device you carry consumes from it.

How the connection works

  • On the same network, devices connect directly over LAN.
  • Away from home, traffic goes through the Olace relay.
  • Either way, the connection is end-to-end encrypted between your two devices. The relay routes only ciphertext and cannot read your conversations.
  • Your computer only makes outbound connections. It never opens a port, and there is no VPN or network setup. Olace is not built on a mesh VPN either, so it coexists cleanly with any VPN you already run.

The daemon keeps your computer reachable even when the Olace app is closed.

What you can do over a pairing

A pairing carries both use and management of the host:

  • Use the models from anywhere, in the apps, the CLI, or through the Olace Bridge, including in Direct Mode.
  • Manage the models. Browse, install, and remove models on the host from the Model hub on your phone, or olace pull <tag> --device <host> from any machine.
  • Manage the runtime. Free the host's GPU (olace unload --device), tune keep-alive and context (olace settings --device), read its logs (olace logs --device), check it end to end (olace status --device), even restart its service (olace service restart --device), all without touching the host. The full list is in Remote management with --device.
  • Serve other apps. Turn the host's Bridge on remotely (olace bridge on --device) and every OpenAI-compatible tool near you can use it.

Your strongest GPU stays where it is; the control surface travels with you.

Pairing limits

Plans include a number of active pairings: 1 on Local, 5 on Plus, 20 on Pro and Founders Lifetime. Over the cap (after a downgrade, for example) the extra pairings are paused, not deleted; your most recently used ones stay active. See Plans & credits.

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