Apps and other computers
Tatu runs on your computer, in the desktop app or in the terminal. You can follow a running session, send work and answer questions from another computer or from your phone. Get the phone app from the app page.
To connect a computer, run this inside Tatu:
/remote setup My MacThe pieces
Section titled “The pieces”- A connection inside each Tatu you start sends that session’s updates and receives your messages. After setup, new sessions connect automatically.
- The relay is the service your other terminals and phone reach your computer through. It only routes messages: everything between your phone or terminal and your computer is encrypted end to end, so the relay cannot read what a session says, and cannot send your computer a command.
- The app lists your paired computers and their sessions. Pair once with a computer to see its current sessions and the ones you start later.
Another terminal uses the same pairing invitation. Your computer must stay running and connected for you to reach its sessions.
Your computer decides which devices it lets in. It keeps its own list, so a device the relay says is paired but your computer does not know gets nothing. The phone and the terminals that follow your computer need the same version of Tatu as the computer, or they say the computer did not answer the encrypted channel.
The optional daemon opens and stops sessions when you ask. Without it, you can still follow sessions you start yourself in a terminal.