How Home Device connects: if the phone has network, you can operate it

Home Device does not offer “LAN / cable / relay” as three modes. Daily use is one thing:

Put the phone on reasonably fast Wi-Fi or Ethernet. If it has network, open a browser anywhere and operate it.

That’s connect-from-anywhere. Home Device and Cloud Device both have it.

Versus a LAN farm

	LAN farm	Home Device
What the phone needs	Same LAN as the PC	Wi-Fi or Ethernet — any network
Where you can operate	Only on that LAN	Any browser
Path	Direct LAN	Relayed through our servers
Switch computers	Tied to the PC with the software	Sign in and continue

LAN farms die when you leave that network. We put the path on the server, so you don’t sit with the phones.

Prepare the phone’s network

Mirroring and group control eat the phone’s upload. Prefer:

• Stable, reasonably fast Wi-Fi
• Or Ethernet (steadier when you have it)

Bandwidth and drop rate matter more than “which connect mode”. Run one phone first.

Off-site phones also need stable power. After a blackout or drop, they reconnect when power and network return — but nobody on site to reboot is painful.

Connect-from-anywhere and the device network are different

• Connect-from-anywhere: you open the console from any place.
• Device network: you configure it. Home Device uses the phone’s network (Shadowrocket optional). Cloud Device defaults to a US line (SK5 optional). You bring the nodes.

More: Connect from anywhere.