Desktop, hosts and the extension

Pair a device

Connect your machine to your workspace so work can run on it.

About 3 minutes

Signing in gets you the app. Pairing is what makes your machine available as a host for a particular workspace.

Steps

  1. In the desktop app, go to Connect device (or open /connect-device).
  2. Register this machine. It appears in your workspace's device list.
  3. Confirm it reports online. A paired device that never reports is paired but not usable.

You're done when the device shows online and Studio offers it as a host.

Reissuing

If a device stops authenticating — you reinstalled, or the token was rotated — reissue its token rather than registering a second device. Two registrations for one machine make it ambiguous which one work should run on.

Gotchas

  • Pairing is per workspace. A machine paired to one workspace is not automatically a host for another.
  • Online means reachable now. A sleeping laptop reports offline; that is accurate, not an error.

Checked against

  • endpoints/servers/
  • pages/connect-device.tsx