Your Core is the home. Switchboard helps it connect.
Three things connect: your Momokji Core, your SpicyRiceCakes Switchboard account, and your devices. Momokji prefers a direct encrypted path between an authorized device and your Core. When the network cannot open one, a capped encrypted relay may carry the connection temporarily without becoming the home of your media.
The computer you control. Your services, credentials, and data live with it, not with us.
The helper service. It remembers which Cores are yours and introduces authorized apps and devices without becoming their home.
Phone, laptop, TV. After a one-time link, each device uses an encrypted tunnel that prefers a direct route and may use a capped relay fallback.
The connect flow
Connecting an app is a short-code handoff: you generate a one-time code from your account, then enter it in a SpicyRiceCakes app to link it.
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Install and start Momokji Core
Momokji Core starts on your computer and is ready to be claimed by exactly one account — yours.
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Your Core shows a short code
On its setup screen the Core displays a short code (and a QR). The code is short-lived and rate-limited, so it can't be guessed.
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Claim the code from your account
Signed in here, you type that code on the Link page. That tells SpicyRiceCakes Switchboard this Core belongs to you.
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Your app opens an encrypted path
From then on your app finds the Core and prefers a direct encrypted connection. When a direct path is unavailable, a capped encrypted relay may carry the connection temporarily.
Where your data goes
Momokji prefers a direct, encrypted connection between an authorized device and the system it needs to reach. When direct access is unavailable, a capped encrypted relay may provide a fallback without becoming the home of your data.
To be precise and honest: a tiny amount of encrypted coordination signaling (helping two devices find each other) passes through the Switchboard. That’s the front desk’s job. If a relay is needed, it carries encrypted traffic temporarily; it does not become the library.
Direct when possible. Explicit when not.
If a direct connection to your home can’t be established — some networks block it — Momokji can use a deliberately limited encrypted relay path. The app should tell you which path is active instead of making the transport boundary a mystery.
Example
“Using an encrypted relay because this network could not open a direct path.”