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"Find my server" auto-discovery on login

New users can tap "Find my server" on the Android login screen and Crumb subnet-scans for `/health`. No IP-typing, no mDNS quirks, no router config.

Android setuponboarding

First-run onboarding is now genuinely one-tap. The Android app's login screen has a Find my server button that does an HTTP subnet scan of the local network for Crumb's /health endpoint.

Why a subnet scan, not mDNS

We tried mDNS first. It didn't survive Docker bridge networking; the recorder publishes its hostname inside its container, the workstation never sees it. A direct HTTP scan of the user's local /24 finishes in under two seconds and works the same regardless of how Crumb is deployed.

What's left

  • Android: shipped (5323a06)
  • Desktop: pending
  • iOS: pending (depends on the iOS client)
  • Web: not needed. Admin lives at the same address as the API.

This is the unglamorous infrastructure that separates "self-hosted is hard" from "self-hosted just works."

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