Set up THE ORB.

You need a USB-C cable, the password for a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network, and a Mac or Windows PC on the same network.

Plug in.

Any 5 V USB-C supply. The screen lights up while it waits for Wi-Fi.
Join your Wi-Fi.

On first boot THE ORB opens a setup network called ORB-XXXX. Join it from your phone, pick your Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz), enter the password. It remembers.
Run the companion on your Mac or PC.

Install the ORB companion (we email the download link to the address used to order it, when your ORB ships), open it once, and it finds your ORB by name on the network. It estimates your usage from your Claude Code and Codex sessions on your computer and serves it to THE ORB on your LAN only.
Pick a face.

Drag sideways. WEEK, TODAY, TIMER, NEXT, TASKS, DUE. The one you leave it on survives a power cut.
Let it update itself.

New firmware reaches it from the companion on your Mac or PC, verified by hash. If a build can’t join Wi-Fi and complete a real poll, it rolls back.

If something looks wrong.

Face shows “no data”: The companion isn’t running or the computer is on a different network.
Rings look different from the Claude app: The rings are estimates from your Claude Code and Codex sessions on your computer, so they won’t match the app exactly. WEEK and TODAY are also different windows; the chip in the centre names which one you’re on.
NEXT or DUE is empty: An empty block means nothing is scheduled. A broken feed shows a warning instead, so you can tell them apart. Adding your own tasks and deadlines is coming in an update, so TASKS and DUE stay empty until then.