Terms of Use

These terms cover the Homelab Deck iOS app, the Homelab Deck agent, and this website, all provided by PieCrust Labs ("we", "us"). By installing or using any of them you agree to these terms. If you don't, don't use them. Where a term below says "the app", it means the iOS app; the agent has its own section.

Apple's terms come first

The app is licensed, not sold, through the App Store, and Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies. Where these terms conflict with Apple's, Apple's win. Apple is not a party to these terms, has no obligation to provide support for the app, and is not responsible for any claim you may have about it — though Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

What you may do with it

You get a personal, non-transferable licence to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, in line with the App Store Terms of Service. You may not copy, redistribute, sell, rent, sub-license, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except to the extent that restriction is unenforceable where you live.

The app controls real infrastructure

This is the part that actually matters. Homelab Deck can start, shut down, restart and force stop virtual machines and containers on servers you connect it to. Force stop is the equivalent of pulling the power: it can lose unwritten data and corrupt filesystems.

• You are responsible for the actions you take through the app, and for the credentials you give it.
• Grant the narrowest API token that does what you need. A read-only token is fully supported, and the entire dashboard works without any power-management privilege.
• Keep your own backups. The app is a monitoring and control tool, not a safety net.
• A console is a console. The app can open a terminal on a guest, a root shell on a node, and a graphical display on a VM. Anything you can do from those, you can do from your phone — including things no app can undo for you.
• Displayed status can be stale, incomplete, or wrong — a server may be unreachable, an API may change, or a platform may report inaccurately. Don't rely on it as the sole basis for a decision with real consequences.

The agent

The Homelab Deck agent is a separate program you may choose to install on a machine of your own. It is not required, and the app works without it. It is distributed as a binary from its releases page, not through the App Store, so Apple is not a party to it and Apple's licence agreement does not cover it.

• All rights reserved. You may install and run it, on as many machines as you like, to use with the app. No other licence is granted — it ships with no open-source licence, and that is deliberate rather than an omission.
• It holds credentials on that machine, in its own configuration file, so it can read your servers while your phone is elsewhere. Securing the machine it runs on is up to you, and it deserves the same care as the phone.
• It reads and reports; it does not act. It polls the servers you give it, keeps history, and forwards alerts. It cannot start, stop or restart anything, and it will not open a console — deliberately, because a service that could do either is a much larger thing to leave running on a network.
• Running it is your decision, and so is keeping it current. It is provided on the same "as is" basis as the app, under the same limitation of liability, and we do not undertake to support any particular version of it.

Your servers, your credentials

The app stores API tokens in the iOS Keychain on your device and sends them only to the servers you configure. We never receive them, and we have no ability to access your servers. Details are in the privacy policy. Keeping the device itself secure — a passcode, and Face ID or Touch ID — is up to you.

Two things can carry those credentials off the phone, both only if you ask for them: an encrypted backup you export, and the agent's configuration file. The backup is encrypted with a password you choose and we never see it, which also means we cannot recover it for you — a lost password is a lost file. Where those copies end up, and who can reach them, is yours to decide.

No warranty

The app and this website are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error free, compatible with any particular release of any platform it supports, or that defects will be corrected.

Server platforms change their APIs. A release newer than those listed on the support page may not work correctly.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, downtime, lost profits, or damage to systems, arising out of or relating to your use of the app — whether or not we were advised such damages were possible. Our total liability for any claim relating to the app will not exceed the amount you paid for it.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions above apply only to the extent permitted, and nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

Trademarks

Homelab Deck is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, iXsystems, Inc., Lime Technology, Inc., Portainer.io, the Uptime Kuma project, the Home Assistant project, Ubiquiti Inc., Deciso B.V., the Pi-hole project, or AdGuard Software Ltd. Proxmox, TrueNAS, Unraid, Portainer, Uptime Kuma, Home Assistant, UniFi, OPNsense, Pi-hole and AdGuard Home are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to describe compatibility.

Purchases and refunds

All purchases go through the App Store. Refunds are handled by Apple under its own policies — request one through reportaproblem.apple.com. We cannot issue refunds directly.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms; the current version is always the one on this page, with its date. Continuing to use the app or the agent after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and subject to any mandatory consumer-protection rights you have where you live.

Contact

[email protected]