Relay
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What is Relay?
A connection between your local Orbit instance and the Sivants relay network. Enables remote access (mobile, other machines) and cross-machine prompt routing.
When Relay is enabled, you can access Orbit remotely from your phone, a different machine, or anywhere with internet. Relay also enables cross-machine prompt routing — for example, queuing an iOS build from your Windows PC and having it execute on a Mac mini that has Xcode installed. Each machine needs Orbit installed and Relay enabled.
How it relates to Orbit
Orbit’s Relay connects machines so project operations can route to the node that owns the project. See Multi-Node Relay for details.
When you would use it
You enable Relay when you need cross-device or cross-machine Orbit access. Solo desktop users can leave it off.
Common operations
- Accessing Orbit from a phone PWA
- Routing iOS builds from Windows to a Mac build node
- Multi-machine team workflows
Related terms
In the Orbit docs
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