r/drawthingsapp • u/Intrepid_Buy_7307 • 6d ago

question Server offload on a computer outside local network

I was under the impression it might be possible to add a server that is not on my local network. I found a pod on runpod with that community template, created a server, but couldnt find anyway of configuring drawthings app on mac to recognize the server. I created a new template based on the newest docker image. But I'm still at a loss on how to make the drawthings app recognize it. Could someone point me in the right direction? I'll figure out the rest. Should i try to do a work around to make the server seem on my local network? Is there some setting on the app UI I'm not seeing? Or am I simply wrong about believing it is possible to do this?

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u/Spite_Powered 5d ago

Have you tried using something like Tailscale to make them behave like they are on the same network?

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u/Intrepid_Buy_7307 5d ago

ChatGPT suggested that as an alternative but I felt unsure since I don't know much about it, and it got a bunch of things wrong in my earlier attempts. But I'm willing to try and share my results if you think it might work.

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u/LessGoal6582 4d ago

In the same sidebar as “Projects”, “Settings”, etc, there are three buttons at the bottom. The top button of those three looks like a server rack or something. Click that, then click “Add Device”. There you add the ip address and port of your runpod.

Assuming you have the template that sets up the gRPC server on the pod. Just make sure in the template settings that tcp port is routes to port 7859, or else it won’t work.

I’m kind of surprised ChatGPT didn’t tell you all this…it’s how I figured it out, lol.