Make a PC the machine

A project has one machine at a time — the computer whose CLI logins do the work. When you start Flowviant on a computer and it connects, that computer takes over as the machine. Any other computer connected to the same project stays connected but goes inactive: it runs nothing until it’s made the machine again.

The Machines page

Open Machines from a project’s sidebar. It lists every computer that has ever polled for this project: hostname, whether it’s serving or inactive, the daemon version it’s running, and when it was last heard from. A computer that has gone quiet still shows up, marked with when it was last heard from — nothing here disappears on its own.

Switching which computer serves

Open the ⋯ menu on any inactive computer’s row and choose Make it the machine. The current machine hands off, and the one you picked starts serving on its next check-in. The same menu has Remove, which asks that computer to stand down and takes it off the project. Its login is unaffected — reconnecting later is flowviant login again in that repository.

From a terminal, flowviant machines lists the same information for every project connected on that computer.

If two computers seem to be running the daemon at once

Flowviant names both, so you can tell which one to stop. Use Remove on whichever one you don’t want serving, or stop the daemon there directly.

Next

Once a machine is serving, write your first card. For what “serving” and “inactive” mean in more detail, see Serving and inactive.