tips n’ tricks / trouble shooting
1. Issue : Host not found
the hostname of the Organelles are : organelle (organelle-1) or organellem (organelle-m)
however, your operating and networking configuration can mean that just using this might not work
one common variations is to require a full stop after hostname
e.g. organelle. (note the full stop)
on macOS, another variation is to have .local , e.g. organellem.local
if you have difficulties, then you can always use the IP address instead.
the IP address of the Organelle can be found on the Organelle after starting wifi with Settings -> Info
(note: this IP address may change over time … hence why the hostname is preferred)
2. VNC Clients
there are lots of VNC clients for all platform mac, windows and linux.
RealVNC
I use RealVNC as its free, and available for all platforms
you can download from 
here
Screensharing - macOS only
macOS, comes with a VNC client built in , they call it screen sharing
it has no icon, but you can use it searching (via Spotlight) for Screen Sharing
or in Safari use the following address vnc://organelle:5901
3. Keyboard shortcuts
macOs
PureData (on Organelle) using the control key a lot, this is no issue its mapped by VNC - however, by default things like Control+1 are used by Mission Control on macOS
to disable this, go to system preferences-> keyboard ->shortcuts
4. Changing screen resolution
(only do this once you have VNC running successfully in default resolution!)
the default resolution is set to 1920x1080,
however you can change this very easily… (to higher or lower)
you will find on your USB drive or SD Card a directory called System, and inside it StartVNC, and within that a file called ‘run.sh’
e.g.
/System/StartVNC/run.sh
if you copy and edit this file, you will find a line which says
vncserver -geometry 1920x1080you can simply edit this resolution to you needs eg.
vncserver -geometry 2560x1440next time you start VNC, and connect a client it should use the new resolution.
of course, if you make the vncserver use your full resolution of desktop monitor , you will want you vnc client to be fullscreen. I find this really useful since you often need quite a large amount of screen space for editing PD patches.
note: obviously the higher the resolution, the more cpu/network bandwidth is used, so you might have to trade off size for performance.