Four ideas, one school trip to a museum. The venue is the place everyone meets — the signal layer. The mesh is your group's name, called out so your devices find each other there. Your fleet is the backpack of devices you own. And sharing is lending a friend your umbrella — one thing, taken back whenever. The rule underneath: same group + same place = you can find each other.
Picture a school trip to a museum. The museum is the place everyone meets — that's the Venue (the signal layer). You arrive with your group, all wearing the same lanyard — that's the Mesh: a name your devices call out so they find each other at the venue.
You carry your own backpack — your Fleet, the devices you own, private until you hand something over. And if a friend needs your umbrella, you lend it for the day and take it back whenever — that's Sharing: one person, one thing, revocable any time.
Same group (mesh) + same place (venue) = you can find each other.
The four layers, expanded
Each piece above, in plain terms — hover any word, icon, or card and the matching trio lights up.
Venue
Where your devices meet — the signaling, STUN & TURN servers. Public by default; a Private Line is a venue that's just yours.
Public · defaultPrivate Line · yours
Mesh
A name your devices call out. Anyone answering the same name, at the same venue, can find each other.
homestudio
Fleet
Every device you own, riding under your name — private and closed. This machine plus the rest of your own devices.
this deviceden-tower+ your others
Sharing
Give one person one thing — any of their devices can use it, and you can take it back whenever you like.
a teammatea friend
same room · found · direct
New · the same-room shortcut
Already in the same room? Skip the front desk.
Devices on one LAN now spot each other directly — mDNS, no venue needed, internet down or not. It's also how a brand-new device joins: fresh out of the box, it calls out on a channel that never leaves the room, even before it knows what time it is. The venue still matters the moment you leave the building.