Hello @mix

hey @Tim Schumacher (work) / @Tim Schumacher it will depend how your initial scuttle-shell is being started - with what config... the current way I'm detecting a scuttle-shell running is to see if ssb-client can connect to an sbot ... but it does this assuming certain config

It was a plain master instance with one little patch:

diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
index dbb5081..27512ff 100755
--- a/server.js
+++ b/server.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ function start (customConfig, donecb) {
   let ssbAppName = appname || process.env.ssb_appname

   const config = require('ssb-config/inject')(ssbAppName, minimist(conf))
-
+  config.connections.incoming.net[0].host = '127.0.0.1'
   const keys = ssbKeys.loadOrCreateSync(path.join(config.path, 'secret'))
   if (keys.curve === 'k256') {
     // i think this is _really_ old and could be removed

I needed this because somehow the ssb server listened on my public ip address and other clients could not connect to the server.

Starting patchbay without the external scuttle shell did work and started scuttle-shell juuust fine