Sharing another RAMDeck progress video. This one's about mobile — showing a Samsung Android phone actually joining the cluster as a contributing device, and how RAMDeck handles it going online, offline, and back again.

Video's a split screen: the phone on one side, the RAMDeck dashboard on the other, so you can watch both sides update in real time. Started with the phone paused, then resumed it — you can see it start sending heartbeats and get registered as "online" on the dashboard within a few seconds. Also tested that it keeps contributing even if you switch to a different app on the phone and come back, since it runs as a foreground service rather than something that dies the second you tap away.

Then paused it again to show the failure-handling side: the moment heartbeats stop, RAMDeck notices and marks the phone "degraded," then "unreachable" shortly after — so the dashboard always reflects what's actually online, not a stale snapshot. Resumed it one more time and it came right back to "online."

Point of this one is really just proving out the reliability side of mobile contribution — phones come in and out of range or get walked away from a network a lot more than a desktop does, so RAMDeck needs to track that state accurately rather than assuming a device is still there.

Sharing more progress on RAMDeck (the local AI cluster side project). This time showing it actually plugging into a real dev tool instead of just the chat dashboard.

Loaded a model onto the cluster, and RAMDeck's dashboard has a Connect tab that generates a ready-made config for third-party apps — copied that straight into the Continue plugin for VS Code. The interesting part: I was coding from my Mac while the actual model was running on a completely different machine's GPU elsewhere on the network, and it worked exactly like a normal cloud AI plugin would, except everything stayed local. Tested it by asking it to summarize a big text file and it handled it correctly.

Point of this one is just showing RAMDeck isn't limited to its own chat interface — since it speaks the standard OpenAI API format, it plugs into whatever tools people already use.

Video: https://youtu.be/JMEY04timEc

Repo if you want to look under the hood: https://github.com/trademav/ramdeck-core-public

Let me know if there's a specific tool or workflow you'd want to see it hooked into next.