Your computer. Your phone. Connected.

1. You type a URL in the AutoYou app's Browser tab.
2. Your phone packages the HTTP request (method, headers, body) into a JSON message.
3. The message travels through the encrypted WebRTC DataChannel (SCTP protocol) directly to your computer.
4. Your computer's AutoYou server makes the actual HTTP request to the website, using your computer's network and IP address.
5. The response travels back through the same encrypted channel to your phone.
6. Your phone renders the page in the built-in browser view.

This works for regular web pages, Server-Sent Events (SSE streaming), WebSocket connections, and binary downloads. Large responses are automatically chunked and reassembled. You can also access local services running on your computer (like localhost:3000) — turning your phone into a mobile dashboard for any tool on your machine.

Firewall note

What if my network blocks the initial tunnel?

Some corporate networks, firewalls, or restrictive ISPs may block the temporary public reverse proxy used during /pair. This only affects the first-time pairing — once connected, the tunnel shuts down and is never used again.

If the initial tunnel is blocked, you have options:

• AutoPair (/autopair) — if you've paired before from any network, AutoPair reconnects directly without the tunnel. The /autopair mode exchanges encrypted offers and answers through your messaging app, bypassing the need for a public URL entirely.
• Cloud Pair — the optional paid feature uses AutoYou's secure relay server for the handshake, completely eliminating the need for any public tunnel on your computer.

When the default connection doesn't work

In most home and office networks, AutoYou connects without any configuration. However, some environments — symmetric NATs, double NATs, carrier-grade NATs, strict enterprise firewalls — can prevent the ICE negotiation from completing. When this happens, neither /pair, AutoPair, nor Cloud Pair will establish a direct connection.

The fix: configure STUN or TURN servers

• STUN servers help your devices discover their public IP addresses. The default Google STUN servers work for most networks, but if you're in a region where they're blocked or slow, you can configure locally-hosted STUN servers for better performance.
• TURN servers relay traffic when a direct P2P path is impossible. TURN requires credentials and uses more bandwidth, but it guarantees connectivity on even the most restrictive networks.

How to configure

You can obtain STUN/TURN credentials from providers like Metered (metered.ca) or host your own with coturn. Then paste the ICE server configuration directly into the AutoYou app Settings → ICE Server Bundle field, or into the AutoYou-Computer Admin UI. The configuration is a JSON array of ICE server objects:

[
  {"urls": "stun:stun.your-region.example.com:3478"},
  {
    "urls": "turn:turn.your-region.example.com:3478",
    "username": "your-username",
    "credential": "your-password"
  }
]

For a full guide on WebRTC connectivity, ICE negotiation, and choosing the right STUN/TURN provider for your region, see the troubleshooting section of our setup guide.

Run openclaw plugins install @openclaw/autoyou and the plugin auto-starts autoyou_lib as a subprocess, registers itself as an OpenClaw model provider, and begins listening for your phone. Your chat messages route through OpenClaw's models. Your Browser tab proxies to OpenClaw's dashboard. Your voice calls transcribe on your machine and respond through OpenClaw's agents. All of it encrypted. All of it peer-to-peer. All of it yours.

openclaw plugins install @openclaw/autoyou

Real-world use cases

• Work from anywhere: Access your AI coding agents, Jupyter notebooks, and admin dashboards from your phone while commuting, traveling, or away from your desk. Your computer does the heavy lifting. Browse OpenClaw dashboard like you are browsing physically on your machine, but from your phone, practically anywhere as long as your network allows it.
• Private AI on the go: Chat with locally-hosted Ollama or LLaMA models through your phone without sending a single token to a cloud provider. Your data never leaves your hardware. No third-party servers. Just you, your computer, and your phone — connected securely over internet.
• Monitor and manage: Check OpenClaw agent status, browse your notes, review page feeds, and restart services — all from the AutoYou app, anywhere in the world.
• Voice-first AI: Talk to your AI assistant hands-free while driving, cooking, or walking. Your computer transcribes, thinks, and speaks back — all through the encrypted link.

Your computer's web services. On your phone. Securely.

The AutoYou server (autoyou_lib) runs an HTTP proxy that exposes any web service on your machine to the Browser tab in your phone. OpenClaw's dashboard at localhost:8067. Agent frontends like Notes at /agent/notes_agent/. The Admin UI at localhost:8001. Jupyter notebooks. Grafana panels. Anything running locally becomes accessible on your phone, without exposing a single port to the public internet.

Your computer stays invisible. Your data never leaves the encrypted P2P tunnel. And it works from your couch, a coffee shop, or another continent.

* For the network engineers: yes, we are literally tunneling TCP inside UDP. HTTP requests get serialized into JSON, sent over the SCTP-based DataChannel, traverse a DTLS-encrypted UDP connection negotiated via ICE, arrive at your computer, get unpacked, and hit your local web server as real HTTP requests. The response takes the same path back. Large responses are chunked and reassembled automatically. SSE streaming and WebSocket connections work too. Your firewall never notices a thing.