Devices
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Devices is the list of every machine and phone connected to your account - and the place you cut one off. Each row is a device you approved: the workstation running the Director, the machine hosting your Gateway, the phone you paired.
How devices get on the list
You approve every one. When DevThrottle starts on a new machine, it opens your browser to an approval page that names the device and asks you to approve or deny it; phones go through the same idea via pairing. Nothing registers itself silently.
What a row tells you
Name, platform, type, app version, when it was last seen, and its addresses. The last-seen column carries the Active/Idle badge: Active means the device's heartbeat landed in the last 15 minutes, so an Idle row is a machine that is off or offline, not a broken one.
What you can do here
- Rename - click the name and type a new one. Give devices names you will recognize later ("desk-pc", "old laptop", "phone"), which matters on the day you need to revoke the right one.
- Manage addresses - a device carries a list, not one address: the addresses other machines use to reach its gateway, in priority order, with the first one tried first. Manage in the Addresses column adds, removes and reorders them, and the primary one is also an Open gateway link. If a machine registered itself with the wrong address, this is where you fix it.
- Revoke - cut a device's access. It asks you to confirm first. A revoked device's key stops working; the device can only come back by going through approval again.