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Getting started

Create your workspace, add your first computer and open a remote session — about ten minutes from start to finish.

Where: /register
On this page

1. Create your workspace

  1. On the Silux Connect website choose Start free (or a plan on the pricing page). You land on /register, titled Create your workspace.
  2. Fill in Your name, Email, Password and Confirm.
  3. Enter a Workspace name (for example your company) and a Workspace slug — a short, lowercase name such as acme-it. The slug identifies your workspace when people sign in.
  4. Pick a Deployment mode: Hosted (“Use Silux Relay — fastest path”) or Self-host (“Run the relay on your infra”), and a Plan.
  5. Press Create workspace. You can also use Sign up with Google or Sign up with Facebook.

You are signed in and taken to the Dashboard. A short guided tour walks you through Invite your first device, Start a remote session, Five mobile control modes, Tune bandwidth on the fly and the assistant button (when the assistant is switched on for your server).

2. Secure your account

Two-factor sign-in is always on. The first time you sign in, choose how to get your 6-digit code: Code by email, Code by Telegram (open our bot and press Start) or an Authenticator app, and keep the Backup codes somewhere safe. Change it any time in Settings → Two-factor sign-in. On the Passkeys tab you can register a security key, Touch ID, Windows Hello or your phone.

Tip: Because your account can hold saved remote desktops and SSH passwords, every sign-in needs the second step. See Sign-in codes.

3. Add your first computer

There are two ways, depending on whether someone uses that computer:

A computer you use (desktop or laptop)
Install the Silux Connect app from Downloads and sign in with your account. The app registers that computer under your account and starts its agent — it appears in Devices within seconds.
A server or unattended machine
Install the host agent (.msi, .pkg or .deb) and enrol it with an enrolment key. It runs as a service, even when nobody is signed in. Step-by-step →

In the console, Devices → Add device opens Downloads, which lists every installer published on your server with its SHA-256 checksum.

4. Open your first session

  1. Go to Devices. Your computer shows Online.
  2. Press Connect on its row (or type its ID or name in Connect to a computer at the top and press Connect).
  3. On the Live session page press Start live viewer. The picture appears; click into it and use your mouse and keyboard as normal.
  4. Try the quality menu (it starts on Auto (adaptive)), Files and Clipboard. Leave with Back or by closing the tab.

More ways to connect — the app, ID + access code, unattended passwords and phones — are in Connecting to a computer.

5. Invite your team (optional)

Settings → Team: type an email address and press Invite. Invited people join as Technicians. Free and Solo include one user; Team includes 5, Business 15, MSP unlimited.

Then decide what sessions may do with permission profiles, and group computers into address books.

Related help

Install the agent on Windows, macOS, Ubuntu and Debian
Install the Silux Connect host agent as a background service, enrol it into your workspace, and grant the macOS permissions it needs.
Connecting to a computer
Every way to open a session: from the website, from the desktop app, by Silux ID + access code, with an unattended password, and from your phone.
Devices
Your fleet: connect to any computer, search and filter, star favourites, tag, group, wake and remove computers in bulk.
Settings
Your profile, two-factor sign-in, passkeys, privacy, workspace and branding, AI, email templates, WhatsApp alerts, API keys, SSO and team.