Run the bee on your Mac

What you'll need

A Mac (Mac Mini, MacBook, iMac) with about 8 GB+ of memory and 3 GB of free disk. The compact DiabeticDaily-4B model is a ~2.7 GB download and runs comfortably on a Mac Mini. Pick either path below — both keep everything 100% on your machine.

Option A — Ollama (quickest, one command)

1. Download Ollama from ollama.com and drag it into your Applications folder.
2. Open Terminal (press ⌘-Space, type "Terminal"), paste this line, and press Return:

ollama run hf.co/SwarmandBee/DiabeticDaily-4B:Q4_K_M

3. It downloads the model once (~2.7 GB), then you can talk to the bee right in the terminal. Try: "Give me a quick win for today." Type /bye to exit.

Option B — LM Studio (no terminal, point & click)

1. Download LM Studio from lmstudio.ai and open it.
2. In the search box, type SwarmandBee DiabeticDaily-4B and download the Q4_K_M GGUF file.
3. Load the model and start chatting in the app. That's it — a private bee, running on your Mac.

Got a bigger Mac?

The same family comes in three sizes — the bigger the machine, the bigger the brain. DiabeticDaily-9B and DiabeticDaily-27B are on Hugging Face too. Browse them all at huggingface.co/SwarmandBee.

Put the dashboard on your desktop & phone (install it like an app)

Once your box is running, its dashboard is a web app at http://<your-box-ip>:8081 (e.g. your NAS on your home network). You can pin it like a native app — bee icon and all — no app store needed.

Desktop — Chrome · Brave · Edge (any OS, incl. Ubuntu)

1. Open the dashboard in your browser.
2. Menu → More tools → Create shortcut… (Brave/Chrome), or Apps → Install this site as an app (Edge).
3. Check "Open as window" → Create. It lands in your apps with the 🐝 icon — pin it to your dock/taskbar or drag it to the desktop.

iPhone / iPad — Safari

1. Open the dashboard in Safari.
2. Tap Share (□↑) → Add to Home Screen.
3. Name it, tap Add — it opens fullscreen, like a real app.

This works on your home network. To reach it from anywhere — privately — set up Tailscale next.

Reach your box anywhere — privately (Tailscale)

Your box stays off the public internet — your records never leave home, by design. To reach the dashboard when you're away, use a private VPN: Tailscale. It gives your devices an encrypted private line straight to your box, and it is never exposed to the internet.

1. Install Tailscale on your box — Synology: Package Center → Tailscale; Linux: curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh. Then tailscale up and log in.
2. Install the Tailscale app on your phone and laptop, and log into the same account.
3. Get your box's private address:

tailscale ip -4        # a 100.x.y.z address

4. Use that address for the dashboard from anywhere: http://100.x.y.z:8081. Install it to your home screen / desktop with the Tailscale address and it works home and away.

🔒 The right way: a private tailnet, encrypted end-to-end. Never expose a medical dashboard to the public internet with a plain port-forward or public tunnel.

What this is — and what's coming

General education, not medical advice. The bee helps you organize and prepare — it never diagnoses or changes your care. Your records stay on your machine; for an emergency, call 911.