My Devices is the list of your own phones, Macs, home vault and browser vault that reach each other over the mesh. They don't need a public IP or a domain: the mesh finds each device by its key, at home or on mobile data.
Devices on the list sync with each other: your notes, your photos and your history. Anyone not on the list can only read the photos in your public posts.
Turn the mesh on
On each device, open Settings → Mesh and switch on
Mesh. Under This Device you'll see its
Mesh address, a long key starting with npub. That's how your other devices
find this one.
Add a device
- On the device you want to add, open Mesh and, under This Device, tap Copy, or Show QR to scan it from the other device.
- On the other device, tap Add a device by address. Paste the address, or tap Scan its QR code.
- Under This Is, pick what it is:
- Home vault · full history: Nostr Vault on your Mac. Your new notes and photos go to it, and your history syncs back. See Home vault sync.
- Phone: another phone of yours.
- Home vault · new posts: a spare phone in Home vault mode, or a box, that keeps your new posts. See Home vault.
- Browser vault: a Nostr Vault page in a browser that keeps a copy of your notes.
- Give it a name if you like, and tap Add.
- Do it in both directions. Add the Mac on each phone, and each phone on the Mac. A device only lets in the devices on its own list.
You're done when the phone shows the other device as In reach under My Devices (the Mac's list doesn't show reach). It can take a moment after the mesh turns on.
The list
- On a phone, each device shows In reach, or Not in reach (Android shows when it was last seen instead, and Not in reach on the device's own page). The Mac's list shows only each device's role and a short address. A Mac is in reach while Nostr Vault is open on it; a phone while the app is open or in Home vault mode.
- Tap a device to rename it, copy its address, or remove it. On Android, What It Gets chooses whether it gets Send new notes and Send new media.
- Once a device is on the list, only the devices on the list learn this phone's address. Anyone else on the mesh gets public photos only. On Android, until you add your first device, anyone on the mesh can learn this phone's address.