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All your PCs, one mind.

Every computer on your UCA account can see the others and hand them tasks. Four steps to set it up.

  1. 1

    Step 1

    Activate UCA on each PC

    Install UCA on every computer and activate it with the same account - each PC uses one Windows slot of your licence. They find each other automatically; there is nothing to pair.

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    ACTIVATED COMPUTERS · 3 / 3

    Desk PConline
    Gaming room serveronline
    Laptopoffline
  2. 2

    Step 2

    Name each PC and say what it’s for

    In UCA open Soul → Mesh, click the PC in the centre and give it a name, an alias and a few notes. Every UCA on your account reads them, so it knows which PC to ask.

    UCA · Mesh

    NAME

    Gaming room server

    ALIAS

    the server in the gaming room

    NOTES

    Runs the nightly backups (D:\Backups) and Plex.Save
  3. 3

    Step 3

    Ask on one, done on another

    Talk to UCA on any PC as usual: “Check the backups on the server in the gaming room.” UCA sees that this is a job for another PC and hands it over.

    Desk PC
    “Check the backups on the server in the gaming room.”
    MESHAsked Gaming room server: check the backups
  4. 4

    Step 4

    Results come back, spoken

    The other PC does the job itself with its own UCA - and shows a card so you can see what happened. If something risky needs a yes, it asks there; nobody around means you hear “needs confirmation on that PC”. The answer comes back and is spoken to you.

    Gaming room server → Desk PC
    REQUEST FROM DESK PCcheck the backups
    GAMING ROOM SERVERLast backup ran at 03:00 - all 3 jobs green.

Good to know

  • Only the PCs on your account are in your mesh. Nobody else’s UCA can see them or send them anything.
  • A PC must be switched on with UCA running to take a job. Offline PCs show their last-seen time.
  • Requests pass through our server only to reach your other PC; they are not stored. The name, alias and notes (up to 4 KB) are stored with the computer so every UCA can read them.
  • Risky actions (shutting down, deleting files, closing windows) still ask for confirmation on the PC that does them.
  • Behind the scenes UCA uses two tools: mesh_list_pcs to see your PCs and mesh_ask to hand one a job. At most 20 jobs per minute per PC.

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