Watching away from home

Turn it off, or give the name back

  • Turn off for now removes the router rule, the firewall rule, the HTTPS service and the hourly check, and keeps your name. Set it up again any time.
  • Release this address (Reelhost asks first): links you've shared stop working, anyone can claim the name, and this computer stops letting visits in from the internet. You can also release it on your account's Address page.
  • Restoring a backup from before the address was set up also takes down what was added since. The name stays yours.

On a new computer, the name stays yours: it belongs to your license, not to a computer. Watch away from home shows yourname.watchhome.app belongs to your license; click Use it on this computer. The old computer stops updating it at its next hourly check and says so ("This web address is now used by another computer of yours"); it never takes it back by itself. Up to 5 moves of an address a year.

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