Poko MCP on Multiple Computers: Mac mini, MacBook and More

Poko's MCP lets you ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Grok for a video, and the Poko app on your computer makes it. Since Poko 0.5.6, that computer doesn't have to be just one. Open Poko on a Mac mini and a MacBook, and both are ready to take videos from your AI chat.

Here's the short version:

• Every computer where you sign in to Poko shows up on its own, with its own name (for example Mac mini or Kushal's MacBook Air).
• One of them is your default. Videos go there unless you say otherwise.
• When more than one is online, your AI app asks which one to use. You can also name it up front: "make this on my Mac mini".
• Follow-ups stay on the computer that made the video, so edits always land on the right project.
• If that computer is off, the video waits and starts when Poko opens there again.

There's nothing extra to set up. All your computers share one Poko address, made for you the first time the app starts.

What you need

Three things, and you probably have two already:

1. Poko 0.5.6 or newer on each computer. Older versions update on their own, or download the latest version.
2. Poko open and signed in with the same account on each computer.
3. Poko connected to your AI app once. Copy the MCP address from Settings → API → MCP in the app (https://mcp.poko.video/mcp), add it as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Grok, and sign in to Poko when asked.

You connect the AI app once, not once per computer. The AI app talks to your Poko account, and your account knows about all your computers.

Option 1: One always-on computer for everything

This is the simplest setup, and the one most people should start with.

Put Poko on a desktop that stays on, like a Mac mini or an office PC, and leave it open. It becomes your default because it was your first computer. Then ask for videos from wherever you are: Claude on your laptop, ChatGPT in the browser, Cursor while you code.

Why it helps:

• Your laptop stays free. Video rendering is heavy work. It happens on the desktop while you keep working, and your battery and fans don't notice.
• Videos keep going when you close the lid. The desktop doesn't sleep when your laptop does.
• One place for your projects. Every video and its project files live on one machine, so you always know where to look.

If you only want one rule to remember, it's this one: keep your fastest computer on, and make it the default.

Option 2: Two computers, and you pick each time

Say you have Poko open on both a Mac mini at home and a MacBook Air you carry around. Ask Claude for a video and it will reply with something like:

You have two computers online: Mac mini (default) and Kushal's MacBook Air. Which one should make this video?

Answer with a name and that computer starts working. If you already know, say it in your first message: "make a 30-second launch video for our new pricing page on my MacBook". Names match without caring about capital letters, so "macbook air" works.

Why it helps:

• You choose by situation. The MacBook when you want to watch and tweak the video live. The Mac mini when you just want the file.
• Nothing lands somewhere by surprise. A video only goes to the computer you picked or your default. It never jumps to another machine on its own.

Pick this option if you regularly work on more than one machine and like to decide case by case.

Option 3: A default, with the odd exception

Most people end up here. Your main computer is the default, and once in a while you send a video somewhere else.

To change your default, open Poko and go to Settings → API → MCP → Your computers. You'll see every computer on your account:

• a green dot for computers online right now, and when the others were last seen
• which workspace each one has open
• Make default next to any computer that isn't the default
• Rename, so "Kushals-Mac-mini-2" can become "Studio Mac"
• Remove for old computers you don't use any more

The default only decides where new videos go. Your existing videos stay where they were made.

Set the default to the computer you use most, and name another one only when you need to.

Option 4: A team, where everyone uses their own computers

In a shared workspace, each person connects their own AI app with their own Poko sign-in. Each person's videos go to their own computers.

That means:

• your teammate's Claude can't send work to your Mac mini, and yours can't use theirs
• each person sees only their own computers under Your computers
• everyone still sees the workspace's projects, as usual

One thing to check before you ask: the workspace you name must be the one open in Poko on that computer. If it isn't, your AI app tells you which workspace is open there, so you can switch and try again.

For agencies, this keeps each editor's machine under their own control while the client work stays in one shared workspace.

How follow-ups work

Once a video exists, it belongs to the computer that made it. Everything after that goes back to the same place:

• "make the intro shorter" (a follow-up)
• a change you send while the video is still being made
• cancelling it
• exporting it in another size

This matters because the project files live on that computer. Sending a follow-up anywhere else would mean starting over.

If that computer is off when you ask for a change, the change waits and runs as soon as Poko opens there again.

What happens to older versions

If you used Poko 0.5.5 or older, that computer shows up as Poko app (update to name it). It keeps working. Update to 0.5.6 and it gets its real name, and you can pick it by name in chat.

If you had the old version on two computers, both share that one entry until you update them. So update every computer first, then set your default.

Set it up in two minutes

1. Update Poko to 0.5.6 on every computer you want to use, and sign in.
2. Connect Poko to your AI app once with https://mcp.poko.video/mcp.
3. Open Settings → API → MCP → Your computers and make your main computer the default.
4. Ask for a video. If more than one computer is online, answer the question about which one to use.

Then leave your fastest computer on, and let your laptop get back to being a laptop.