From the CodeMote blog.
Practical guides for driving your dev machine from your phone.
How to turn your iPad into a real dev machine in 2026
Use your iPad to drive the VS Code on your own computer — terminals, files, Git and AI agents — instead of a cloud editor. A practical 2026 setup with no servers to run.
Coding on your iPhone in 2026: what actually works
An honest look at coding from an iPhone in 2026 — why supervising agents and reviewing diffs beats typing code, and how to drive your real machine from a 6-inch screen.
How to fix a production bug from your phone
A calm, repeatable way to triage and ship a fix for a production bug from your phone — read logs, edit the file, run the tests and push, all against your own machine.
Review a pull request from your phone
Read the real diff, run the branch and leave a verdict from your phone — a practical way to review pull requests on your own machine instead of squinting at a web UI.
Start a long coding task at your desk, check it from your phone
Kick off a long-running agent or build before you leave, then supervise it from your phone — how persistent sessions let you walk away without losing the work.
devtunnel login: signing in with GitHub or Microsoft
How to authorize your machine to host a CodeMote session with devtunnel — signing in with a GitHub or Microsoft account, and fixing common login errors.
CodeMote won't pair: QR code and connection fixes
If CodeMote won't pair or the QR code won't scan, here's a quick checklist — devtunnel sign-in, the right command, regenerating the code, and connection troubleshooting.
Control Claude Code from your phone without SSH or Tailscale
Drive Claude Code on your computer from an iPhone or iPad with no SSH server, no Tailscale, and no port forwarding — just a QR scan over an encrypted tunnel.
How to use VS Code on an iPad without Codespaces or code-server
Reach the real VS Code on your own computer from an iPad — terminals, files and Git — without spinning up a cloud dev environment or self-hosting code-server.
Control your computer's terminal from your phone — without SSH
Get a live, persistent terminal to your own machine from an iPhone or iPad without an SSH server, keys or port forwarding — and a real file tree and Git UI alongside it.
Keep your mobile coding session alive while you're away
Why a CodeMote session needs the computer awake, and how to stop your Mac, Windows or Linux machine from sleeping so long-running agents and terminals keep streaming.
How to run Claude Code from your iPhone
Start, supervise and approve Claude Code from your phone — watch the agent work in a live terminal and redirect it by voice, while your code stays on your own machine.
Control VS Code from your phone without copying your code to the cloud
A practical guide to reaching the VS Code on your own machine from an iPhone or iPad — terminals, files and Git — over a direct encrypted tunnel, with no server-side copy of your code.
“devtunnel: command not found” — how to install it for CodeMote
If CodeMote can't start a session because devtunnel isn't on your PATH, here's how to install Microsoft's dev tunnels CLI on macOS, Windows and Linux and verify it works.