Hi Johnj1611, the current approach utilizes the second mechanism - the ip addresses (hostnames) of participating clients will just be added to your hypervue list, so there is no difference between a network rendercow you have at home (maybe your old laptop or secondary computer?) and an OpenVue rendercow, the only difference is that your home rendercow has a local IP Adrress and OpenVue rendercows have an internet IP Address.

I have not yet tested anything with protected content yet, but from my understanding - if you can render protected content on your home rendercows it should also be possible with the OpenVue rendercows.

And again: Everyone is welcome to render your test scenes via my official OpenVue rendercow. Just add darkfire.zapto.org with Port 5002 to your hypervue and give it a try.

:-)

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