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Web & Phone

Your desktop app is the brain. The browser on your phone is a window into it. The desktop must stay on.

This is not a clone of every desktop button.

Turn it on

  1. Desktop: Settings → Advanced → Web Server → Enable Web Server.
  2. Same Wi-Fi: open http://<that-computer>:8085.
  3. First visit: create a web username and password.
  4. Not localhost (phone, another PC, a tunnel): also type the one-time setup code from that same Settings page.

QR code is on that page. Remote on the phone is its own screen: Tailscale login, HTTPS, optional ngrok, QR — not only the desktop wizard.

Away from home: Tailscale (recommended). Nothing exposed to the public internet.

Security: optional 2FA (QR + recovery codes). Turning 2FA on or off asks for the web password. Desktop can sign out all devices or reset the web login (clears web user/pass/2FA only — not characters). Dangerous Account actions re-ask the web password.

Mic / push-to-talk on a phone needs HTTPS (Tailscale HTTPS or similar). Plain http://192.168… will refuse the microphone.

Add to Home Screen: Android may show a banner. iPhone: Share → Add to Home Screen.

What works on the phone

Chats (including groups), library and editors, AI create, models (including generate a picture and insert), settings (one scrolling page, not six tabs), Worlds, Porch Stories, browsing The Stoop (download, follow, vote, comments if your email is confirmed).

Push-to-talk mic over HTTPS. Impersonate, fork, swipes, /image, attach a photo, @ mentions.

Desktop only

Do these on the Mac/PC app:

  • Full Image Studio (Create / Edit / LoRA / expression-pack QC)
  • Voice Call (green call button, call model, buffer, call prompt)
  • Suggest Actions
  • Photo Understanding (the phone can attach a photo; the offline describer is desktop)
  • Stoop upload / share (the phone Share tab is not a live uploader)
  • Backups & Restore
  • Database Scan & Clean / change data folder
  • Turn Into a Story from chat
  • Director auto-play + response delay (toggle exists; pacing is desktop)
  • Custom Piper voice importer
  • GPU launch, Flash Attention, .kcpps, six-tab Settings layout
  • Waifu Coder (the third home seat)
  • The Web Search switch, the wiki list, and the recipe-card folder. Those live in desktop Settings → Porch Life. The phone does not have that card.

Two computers

There is no cloud sync. Copy the FrontPorchAI folder, or leave the library on one machine and use this web server from the other.

FAQ: Chat from my phone · What's missing.

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