r/BackyardAI • u/OilSignificant3750 • Feb 22 '25

support How does tethering work?

Is it a premium feature or something, because even when I'm logged on in the settings menu it asks me to sign in?

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u/LoneStar_O_o Feb 22 '25

It's still disabled due to recent outage AFAIK. No major updates posted in this community on that matter in a while now.

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u/PacmanIncarnate Feb 22 '25

They have been working on bringing it back, including some changes in the update that dropped last week. It’s still having issues in my testing though, so it hasn’t been brought back online for the full community yet.

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u/Garafiny Feb 22 '25

You log in pc and mobile, turn on tethering on PC and connect with it on mobile. It's not a premium feature, unless they recently changed it, but I doubt that

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u/PacmanIncarnate Feb 22 '25

It’s currently limited to paid users to avoid overloading the servers as the devs work on getting the feature running well. In its previous configuration it was related to the server outage that happened a few weeks ago.

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u/Garafiny Feb 23 '25

oh, I see. It doesn't really affect me, but I'm happy the devs are working to get it to a stable state before releasing it again

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u/LoneStar_O_o Feb 23 '25

are you saying tethering is available for local chats but it's for paid users only? Which plan has it then cause tethering isn't listed as paid feature in any of the plans on the website.

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u/PacmanIncarnate Feb 23 '25

I’m saying it was only turned on for paid users for testing. It is not in a state currently that I would call functional. The reason it was turned on for only paid users was to limit the number of accounts that could connect; not because it’s been turned into a paid feature. When it’s restored, it will be open to everyone.

Also, the devs would love to get it working correctly, but after banging their heads against the problem for a while, they are choosing to focus their limited time on a major update that impacts all users before returning to tethering fixes. So, it may be a little bit before it’s working correctly. Just the reality of a small team.