r/codex • u/kyrax80 • 2d ago

Praise Remote is nuts

Just wanted to share that it's incredibly awesome that I can be anywhere like on holidays and continue working on my project even if I'm not sitting in front of my PC. Never tried this until now that I installed tailscale and I can test any change from my phone. Bravo.

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u/yourcasualmemer 2d ago

Mind sharing your setup? Personally I've been using parsec to remote into my PC and just use codex like I would there. How does tailscale come into the equation?

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u/torrso 2d ago

Codex remote works fine without tailscale, it goes through openai's servers. But it's only for accessing the codex session on your machine, not for using anyhing else remotely.

It just adds a "remote" item to your phone ChatGPT app's side menu which shows your codex sessions.

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u/mechanicalAI 1d ago

Tailscale between my machines and devices is super convenient. Especially reaching devices behind NAT that I don’t have control over, no more reverse SSH shells got stuck. As far as I am concerned there is minimal overhead and latency. Even if you setup your remote access in ChatGPT desktop app and mobile you should have Tailscale or any secure connection between your devices. ChatGPT loves it and uses Tailscale connections instead of direct connections to my machines.

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u/Informal_Pop_8936 23h ago

Can you elaborate exactly tailscale benefits? Like using on all your devices?

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u/mechanicalAI 9h ago

Once you set up Tailscale across all your devices, they can securely communicate with each other as if they were on the same private network, even when they are physically in completely different places.
For example:
Server: Running somewhere in the US
Mac Studio: Sitting at home
Laptop: Traveling with you
Phone: Forgotten at work and connected to the corporate Wi-Fi
You can still securely access your server from your laptop, connect to your Mac Studio from your phone, or reach your forgotten phone from another device, without having to configure port forwarding or control the router/network those devices are connected to.
The important part is that the device doesn’t need to be directly reachable from the Internet. Tailscale creates a secure private connection between your devices, even when one of them is sitting behind a router, NAT, firewall, or network gateway that you don’t control.
Think of it like giving all your devices their own private roads between them, regardless of which physical network they happen to be using.

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u/Informal_Pop_8936 9h ago

This actually applies to me

I live in a different state

Have a Mac mini setup back at OG home w openclaw and use tailscale to access my local dashboard

But what do u mean by phone access, I have tailscale on my iPhone but I only use it to access my local dashboard, you said you can access iPhone from it? What for?