How does it work

If you have one or multiple folding clients running you can them all include into the monitoring app. But first you need perform some basic installation ...

Install the folding client on your Windows, macOS or Linux system

Adding clients

As a prerequisite please make sure to have the latest version of the installed; the mobile monitor only support version 7.x. When you have the client installed you have the option to start and get a similar screen like this from a Mac

Adding as many clients you have ; once they are configured basically to be able to be remote controlled.

Prepare remote access

Configure Remote Control

On top you have a number of buttons; the one with the title "Configure" bring you to a dialog to apply basic settings we need to perform before as prerequisite that FAHMM can connect.
For us here the important configuration is about "Remote Access":
There are basically three settings (later used in Basic configuration on FAHMM Mobile Monitoring app):

  • password for remote access
  • Port Number (default: 36330)
  • IP Adress Restriction (network configuration)

First we will declare the password used to check if an remote computer (like later your iPad or iPhone) is allowed to have access to the folding client. Define there the password your admin gave you or you had chosen yourself. Reenter the password for validation once more in the second line.

Second: the network port. Leave it at standard 36330. The best thing you can do. If you need to change (because of network reasons like firewall or other policies) please contact your system admin for a correct value. In most cases 36330 as default is just fine.

Third and maybe most complicated one is the network setting. Per default the folding client allow only the local system (where the client is running) to connect to itself (that would be IP 127.0.0.1). As we want eventually use our iPad we need to inform the folding client about that and ask the client to accept connections from a dedicated host or a group of hosts (within a subnet).

In the example above the value 192.168.1.0/24 describe that the whole subnet 192.168.1.0 (with an IP range from 192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.254) can connect to the folding client. The /24 is a different notation for also often used 255.255.255.0 as net mask. If you need more details please use your favourite search engine for the term: "subnet netmask".
To figure out what is the correct subnet please check you network setting on the folding system and/or your iPad/iPhone.
Once you done the settings and saved the configuration file you need to restart the folding client; the config file (sample shown below) will be used by the folding client:

basic config.xml file for a client


<config>
 <!-- Folding Slot Configuration -->
 <power v='full'/>
 <allow v='192.168.1.0/24'/>
 <!-- Network -->
 <proxy v=':8080'/>
 <!-- Remote Command Server -->
 <password v='$PASSWORD$'/>
 <!-- User Information -->
 <passkey v='enter your passkey here'/>
 <team v='3446'/>
 <user v='your user ID'/>
 <!-- Folding Slots -->
 <slot id='0' type='CPU'>
  <cpus v='5'/>
  <pause-on-start v='true'/>
 </slot>
</config>

More information on how to configure a folding remote client you can find of F@H Project (and in different words).

Adding client to iPad or iPhone

Configure FAHMM Mobile Monitoring App

On top you have a number of buttons; the one with the title "Configure" bring you to a dialog to apply basic settings we need to perform before as prerequisite that FAHMM can connect.
For us here the important configuration is about "Remote Access":
There are basically three settings (later used in Basic configuration on FAHMM Mobile Monitoring app):

  • Hostname
  • Host Adress
  • Port Number (default: 36330)
  • Password

Optional
  • user name for sFTP
  • Port Number (default: 22)
  • password for sFTP

Advanced method to add a new client

The following link will only work on devices where the FAHMM app is installed. It will not work on Windows, Linux or macOS systems.
add new client

How does it work

If you have one or multiple folding clients running you can them all include into the monitoring app. But first you need perform some basic installation ...

Adding client to iPad or iPhone

Configure FAHMM Mobile Monitoring App

On top you have a number of buttons; the one with the title "Configure" bring you to a dialog to apply basic settings we need to perform before as prerequisite that FAHMM can connect.
For us here the important configuration is about "Remote Access":
There are basically three settings (later used in Basic configuration on FAHMM Mobile Monitoring app):

  • Hostname
  • Host Adress
  • Port Number (default: 36330)
  • Password

Optional
  • user name for sFTP
  • Port Number (default: 22)
  • password for sFTP

Advanced method to add a new client ...

Beside the regular way to add/remove clients from the app there are also two advanced methods:

... via link

The following link will only work on devices where the FAHMM app is installed. It will not work on Windows, Linux or macOS systems.





... via Bonjour / mDNS

While the standard folding software don't support zero-administration via Bonjour/mDNS there is a way to manually achieve that with little effort while setup your folding systems (mainly macOS and Linux)

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