Motion
Self-hosting

macOS

Run Motion on a Mac with Docker or a native install.

macOS uses the same shell installer as Linux — it detects Darwin and pulls the macOS bundle.

Native

curl -fsSL https://motionis.xyz/connect.sh | sh -s -- --host <connect-token>

Brings its own daemon (Apple Silicon arm64 or Intel x64), Node, and Caddy — no Docker, no Homebrew needed. Installs the motion CLI.

Docker

curl -fsSL https://motionis.xyz/connect.sh | sh -s -- <connect-token>

Runs the Linux workspace container via Docker Desktop.

In Docker mode the terminal/files are the Linux container's, not your native macOS shell. For real Mac paths + your shell, prefer the native install.

Browsing your files

  • Native defaults to your home dir; use --root / for the whole disk, or --root /path for a folder. See What the IDE can see.
  • Docker can only mount folders Docker Desktop is allowed to share — point --root at a project folder (not /).

Linux

Install Motion on a Linux machine — Docker or native.

Windows

Install Motion on Windows with the PowerShell installer.

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NativeDockerBrowsing your files