Orbit on Your Phone
Orbit’s full interface is available on your phone as a Progressive Web App served over your secure tunnel. The point is to close the gap between finding a problem and fixing it: spot a bug while testing on your phone, and your agent can be working on it before you put the phone down.
Getting connected
Section titled “Getting connected”Open your Orbit tunnel URL in any phone browser and authenticate with the Vault shared secret — the same token used for desktop remote access. Pair quickly by scanning the QR code in Settings → Mobile Setup. When the browser offers it, install the PWA from the banner to get a home-screen app: the native prompt on Android and Chrome, or Share → Add to Home Screen on iOS.
What you can do
Section titled “What you can do”The mobile interface uses a bottom tab bar — Projects · Pipeline · Apollo · CLI · Captures — and covers most of what the desktop does:
- Browse projects and drill into status, queue, completions, docs, git, and builds.
- Drive the queue. Watch prompts run, approve or cancel them, or queue new ones from a Ship sheet. Tapping a running entry opens a full-screen live-output view that follows the agent’s last several kilobytes of output, pausing auto-follow when you scroll up and offering a Jump-to-bottom control.
- Talk to Apollo with streaming replies and full conversation history, including voice input (Whisper when an OpenAI key is present, Web Speech as a fallback) and spoken replies via ElevenLabs.
- Use the terminal. Run shell commands or attach to a live agent session through an in-browser xterm.js terminal.
- Manage git and builds. View branches and commits, pull and push, and trigger iOS or Android builds from a Ship modal.
Offline and settings
Section titled “Offline and settings”The mobile Settings sheet groups Account, Defaults, and Device controls — copy the server URL, reveal and copy the token, set a display-only model tier and theme, toggle the offline action queue, restart the server, or sign out. When you act while the server is unreachable, actions queue and replay when the connection returns.
A note on waking the desktop
Section titled “A note on waking the desktop”The phone reaches Orbit through a tunnel and a small Wake Receiver service. If the desktop app is minimized to the tray, a wake request brings the server up within about thirty seconds. If you have fully quit Orbit on the desktop, a wake request is recorded but the server can’t start until you open the app again — the Settings toggle on the desktop explains this clearly.