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Machines

The Browlix worker runs browsers on your Windows and Ubuntu machines and takes commands from your workspace.

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A machine is a Windows or Ubuntu computer you own or rent that runs the Browlix worker. The worker opens profiles, enforces their settings, uploads their data and runs automation; your workspace only sends it commands.

Pairing

  1. In the web app open Machines → Pair a machine and copy the one-time code.
  2. Download the worker for the machine's system and verify its SHA-256.
  3. Run the install command shown in the pairing dialog. The worker registers itself as a service and appears in devices.list.

The Windows build is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run. Updates are still verified against the Browlix release signature before they are applied.

What devices.list tells you

  • whether the machine is online (how fresh its last heartbeat is),
  • its operating system and worker version,
  • its health and how many more sessions it can open,
  • whether the AdsPower-compatible Local API is on.

Capacity

A machine opens as many sessions as its configured capacity allows. When it is full, or offline, sessions.start on it is refused with a typed error; choose another machine. Workspace-wide limits, when set, are reported as QUOTA_EXCEEDED.

Storage

devices.storage.move moves every profile folder of a machine to another absolute folder (worker 0.9.5 or later). It is refused while a browser runs, copies or renames file by file, verifies, then switches.