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Connect your devices ​

This is the distributed part. Connecting a device turns it into part of one computer your GSV can act across — read a file on your home server and push from your laptop in the same breath, even when those machines are asleep.

Connect a machine ​

  1. Open Machines and click Connect new machine.
  2. Select the platform, give the machine a name. The device ID generates automatically. Set how many days until the connection expires.
  3. Copy the first set of commands and run them in your terminal. You'll be asked for the machine's password — the install needs admin (sudo) rights.
  4. Click Next, copy the second set of commands, and run those too.

Expect a transient error here

The second step often prints an error at first. Give it a few seconds — the terminal will then confirm it worked. Don't re-run the commands. Once it connects, GSV shows the machine as online.

Try it ​

With the machine connected, ask your agent things like:

  • What's running on my <machine> right now?
  • Open Spotify.
  • Set my volume to 20%.
  • What's on my clipboard?
  • Take a look at my screen — what am I working on? (needs screen permissions — see below)

Permissions ​

Some actions — reading your screen, controlling apps — need extra permissions from your operating system, not just GSV. Your OS will prompt you the first time an agent tries one; grant what you're comfortable with. You can connect a machine and use the basics without granting these.

When a connection expires ​

The connection expires after the number of days you set when adding the machine. To bring it back, connect the machine again the same way — your data persists across reconnects.

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