Docs

Setup guides & fixes.

Every guide starts from the problem it fixes. The app checks most of this for you, per Mac, with a button that performs the fix — these pages are the same knowledge in the open.

Share the farm folder from the coordinator

Fixes → Workers can’t see the queue, or "Farm folder not found" during setup.

Wire the network: Wi-Fi for internet, the switch for the farm

Fixes → Renders crawling over office Wi-Fi, or Macs on the switch losing internet.

Stage the models once, pull them off the switch

Fixes → HuggingFace throttled to <100 KB/s, or every Mac downloading the same 87GB.

Set up a render Mac and start its worker

Fixes → "Apple could not verify…" blocking the scripts, or a Mac that shows online but never claims work.

Queue work from any Mac

Fixes → Spending an hour of farm time on a framing you’d have rejected as a still.

Memory limits, PERF profiles, and why OOMs don’t retry as-is

Fixes → A render freezing or killing a Mac overnight, or "renders over their memory budget" climbing.

Reap stalled jobs from a Mac that died mid-render

Fixes → A job stuck in running/ after a crash, sleep, or unplugged Mac.

Run the gateway on a headless Mac

Fixes → Needing the board on a phone, or wanting the farm up without anyone logged into a GUI.