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Link with a friend’s UsherrAdministrators

Watch together with friends who run their own Usherr, no Discord needed: a one-time code links the two Usherrs through an encrypted relay.

In Broadcast: Server, People, Linked Usherrs.
In Classic or Neu: Settings, Movie night, Linked Usherrs.

  1. Linked Usherrs

    Under Server, People (in Classic or Neu: Settings, Movie night). Switch on Link with other Usherrs: it’s off until you do. The line under it says whether the relay is connected, and warns if this server’s clock is off (screenings only start together with the right time).

  2. What the relay is

    Each Usherr keeps one outgoing connection to the Usherr Link Relay, run by the Usherr project. No port is opened and nobody sees your home address, and everything is encrypted and signed end to end, so the relay can’t read any of it. My own relay uses a relay you run yourself (the small usherr-relay program).

  3. The name your friends see

    Type it in Name linked Usherrs see and press Save. The Fingerprint is there to compare with your friend, if you want to be sure you linked the right Usherr.

  4. Invite a friend’s Usherr

    Press Make a code, then Copy, and send it to your friend. A code works once, for 24 hours; Cancel stops it early.

  5. If it applies Or join with their code

    Got a code from a friend? Paste it under Join with a code and press Link. If their Usherr isn’t online right now, you’re linked as soon as it is (within 24 hours). A mistyped, used, cancelled or expired code says so.

  6. You’re linked

    Each link shows when it was last heard from. Rename changes its name here only; Unlink tells the other Usherr and stops the link on both sides at once. Next: invite them to a screening, or make a crew together.