Check your miners away from home

What you need

• An Umbrel at home, on the same network as your miners. Any always-on computer at home can do this job, but this guide covers Umbrel.
• A free account at tailscale.com. Signing up with Google or Apple takes a minute.
• A computer on your home Wi-Fi, for one copy-and-paste step.
• About 15 minutes.

Step 1 · Install Tailscale on your Umbrel

1. Open Umbrel in your browser like you normally do.
2. Open the App Store and install Tailscale.
3. Open the Tailscale app and sign in with your account.

Step 2 · Find your home network number

1. In Umbrel, open Settings and look for your device's IP address. It looks something like 192.168.1.50.
2. Write it down.
3. Now make a second number from it: replace the last part with 0/24. So 192.168.1.50 becomes 192.168.1.0/24. That second number is your home network range. You need it in the next step.

Step 3 · Tell Tailscale to share your home network

This is the only technical part, and it's one line of copy and paste.

1. On a computer connected to your home Wi-Fi, open Terminal (on a Mac) or PowerShell (on Windows).
2. Type this and press Enter:
   ssh umbrel@umbrel.local
   It asks for your Umbrel password. Nothing appears while you type it, that's normal. The first time it may ask "Are you sure you want to continue connecting?". Type yes and press Enter.
3. Paste this line, but swap in your own network range from Step 2, then press Enter. If it asks for a password again, it's the same one.
   sudo docker exec tailscale_web_1 tailscale up --advertise-routes=192.168.1.0/24
4. Type exit and press Enter. You're done with the computer.

Step 4 · Approve it on the Tailscale website

Tailscale won't share your network until you say it's okay. People skip this step and then nothing works.

1. Go to login.tailscale.com/admin/machines and sign in.
2. Find the machine called umbrel in the list.
3. Click the three dots on the right of it, then Edit route settings.
4. Tick the box next to your network range and save.

Step 5 · Set up your phone

1. Install the Tailscale app from the App Store.
2. Sign in with the same account and tap Connect.
3. If you just did Step 4, turn the connection off and back on once.

Leave Tailscale connected. It uses almost no battery and only carries traffic meant for your home network.

Step 6 · Test it

1. Turn off Wi-Fi on your phone so you're on mobile data.
2. Make sure Tailscale shows Connected.
3. Open Safari and type http:// followed by your Umbrel's IP address from Step 2. For example http://192.168.1.50.
4. If your Umbrel loads, you're done. Open SoloDeck and your miners are there, same as at home.

If it doesn't work

Everything works at home, but not on mobile data

Some Umbrel setups need one small extra app to let the traffic through.

1. In Umbrel, open the App Store, click the three dots in the top right, then Community App Stores.
2. Paste this and click Add:
   https://github.com/liviux1/umbrel-solodeck-store
3. Click Open next to SoloDeck and install Tailscale Subnet Fix. There's nothing to set up, it starts working on its own.
4. Wait a minute, then run the test in Step 6 again.

You're on hotel, cafe or hotspot Wi-Fi and nothing loads

1. Check that a normal website loads. If it doesn't, that Wi-Fi is the problem, not your setup.
2. Open Settings, then Wi-Fi, tap the i next to the network and look at Router. If it starts with the same numbers as your home network, for example both start with 192.168.1., that Wi-Fi clashes with your home network and blocks the way in. Not your fault, and not fixable from the phone. Turn Wi-Fi off and use mobile data instead.

Still stuck

Email support@solodeck.app and say which step you got to.