How do run Claude Code & Cowork on my MacStudio AND access it from my iPad, iPhone, and MacBooks?

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So glad this channel is here. I’ve been working through David’s new Robot course and it’s been so, so helpful.

But it’s making me greedy!

I love that anthropic have added the dispatch feature, so that I can run 1 cowork session in my Mac Studio.

But I want to run several independent sessions and access, and access them from all of my devices.

I’m sure this will get easier over time, but I can’t currently access the dispatch session from my laptops.

And I need - yes need!- to have several dispatch like sessions.

(I have 2 terminal sessions running using remote-control, and that’s a start, but it’s fiddle and flakey).

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You should have Claude Desktop installed on the Laptop and logged into the same account as the Mac Studio. Then you should be able to see the Dispatch folder but it should be in sync with your MacStudio. I currently have 2 laptops and thats what l do.
Unless l am missing something, OR you could ask your robot to help you. :wink:

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Oh, when I go to dispatch on a MacBook it says:

A Cowork agent is already running on Mac-Studio-2. Quit the Claude app on that device, then restart this one to take over.

I take that to mean that I can only run one cowork dispatch session on my claude account at a time.

Is your’s different Sue?

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I’ve never seen that screen/error and l have connected from my iPad and iPhone.
So what exactly are you trying to do? You have Cowork desktop on the Studio and the laptop. Then you are trying to access from 2 mobile/dispatch devices?

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Thx Sue. I’ve got cowork dispatch running on my macstudio. I can connect from my iPhone and iPad, very nicely. But the MacBook Pro only allows me to run a new dispatch session; it doesn’t let me connect to the one on the MacStudio.

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I am very sure this is a (current) limitation from Anthropic.
An ongoing dispatch session is only accessible from mobile devices, and not other computers.
(I have the same «issue» as you)

A suggestion could be to set up a Claude Code sesssion and use channels, this would allow you to access Claude Code through either Telegram or iMessage.

I do this through Telegram and it works great

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If you use claude code, you can use tmux (brew install) to connect to it with a terminal app such as termius while on your network. For outside connections there is of course poking a hole in router (port forwarding) and ssh but not the best for security. Better: cloudflare tunnel, ngrok…