How to Turn Your Home Network Into a Private AI Cloud You Access From Your Phone

Your home network probably has more AI compute sitting idle than you think. If you have a desktop or laptop running Ollama or LM Studio, you already have a local AI server. You have models downloaded. You have inference running. But you can only use it sitting at that one machine, staring at that one screen. That is a waste. Your desktop GPU can run a 70B parameter model. Your phone cannot. But your phone is the device you actually have with you when you are walking around the house, lying on the couch, sitting in a coffee shop on your home VPN, or standing in the kitchen trying to remember a recipe. The compute is ten feet away. You just have no way to reach it. Every guide out there for solving this involves the same painful dance. Set environment variables. Configure OLLAMA_HOST to 0.0.0.0. Open firewall ports. Find your local IP address. Restart services. Hope nothing breaks. We thought that was absurd. So we built auto-discovery into Off Grid. What Off Grid does on your network Of