u/bankofcoinswap

Hey r/clawbot! 👋

We’ve just released QCAI for iOS and Android, and we want to highlight its OpenClaw Control Center integration! You can now manage your gateway directly from your phone.

Key OpenClaw Features:

• 📊 Dashboard: Real-time server monitoring and web console.
• 💻 Portal: Direct access to your Node.js ecosystem. This will allow you to access your selected information on the OpenClaw via command shell or HTML (e.g., you can view the OpenClaw generated output directly or remotely control your Antigravity/Claude Code/WeChat and many other apps in real time
• 💬 Gateway Chat: Direct LLM link for context-aware gateway interaction.
• 🧠 Context OS: Submit your approved mobile device sensor data to your OpenClaw gateway (e.g., calendar, walked steps, etc) and let OpenClaw do a real time plan/recommendation via Google MAP API or perplexity API search about the environments

Secure by Default 🔒: We use Native Tailscale VPN integration for a secure, encrypted tunnel straight to your gateway—no open ports required. Device pairing is done natively via QR code or a quick openclaw devices approve <id> command.

We’d love to hear your thoughts! What other OpenClaw management features do you want to see on mobile? QCAI for iOS and QCAI for Android

KEY WORD: FREE!!!

I have been recently trying to identify ways to have a free tier service (or minimal cost) to experiment with OpenClaw. After some research, I find that if I only need a 24-hours OpenClaw Gateway, then there are many free cloud Ubuntu instances for me to use. However, then I still need to pay LLM tokens. That could be easily expensive. So I want to have a way to host a free LLM also.

After extensive research, I identified that Oracle Cloud free tier could be the perfect solution. In the Oracle Cloud free tier, you can theoretically get an ARM based Ubuntu instance with 4 OCPUs, 24GB RAM, and 200GB SSD. This will be perfect to host a local LLM based on Qwen3.5 27B A3B 4-bit model and also the OpenClaw Gateway. I decided to go this way.

The challenge is that Oracle cloud provided limited machines for this free tier (shape: VM.Standard.A1.Flex). So you have to try all the time and can only generate one when someone else delete their instances there. I cannot wait and have no time to do that. So I decided to use the shape VM.Standard.A2.Flex. This shape is not permanently free. But since Oracle will give you 300$ credit, you can use this credit to run your 24GB RAM, 4OCPU server for free for 6 months. This is good enough for me to do all the tests. And I can decide what to do after 6 months.

I have tried to provide all the configuration files and a Linux scripts to automatically do all of the following steps.. but my posts were deleted since it violates some policy of this group. In the following, I briefly summarize what I have done there.

1. generate the 4 OCPUs, 24GB RAM, and 200GB SSD ARM Linux in the shape VM.Standard.A2.Flex
2. Please note that you can only generate the minimized Ubuntu for ARM based instances. For the LLM+OpenClaw, we really need a regular Ubuntu. So after you start your instance, please run "sudo unminimize" to get a regular version of Ubuntu.
3. The process may have some challenges, I do recommend that you use AI to help you to troubleshoot during the process.
4. Skip Docker, Go Native. Do not install Docker Version of OpenClaw. It is hard to configure. I tried that, but I decided to revert it back to free Ubuntu instance and install the native one.
5. Install the qwen3.5 LLM and then configure your OpenClaw to use local LLM
6. Everything is fine and working now. But since it is in Cloud, we need some way to remotely manage and configure them:-)
7. I found an app in the Apple Store called "QCAI", again, I am not supposed to post the direct link here. But you can search the Apple Store to find the app easily. They have an Android version also and you can get that if you want.
8. If you want to use QCAI app to manage your cloud "OpenClaw+LLM", you need to do some configurations. The QCAI app has detailed instructions for you to make that work. I can briefly summarize it here
9. You need to install tailscale VPN and then configure your OpenClaw openclaw.json file briefly to let your app to access your OpenClaw dashboard in the QCAI app itstelf.
10. The QCAP app also has a claw-portal that access your OpenClaw output directly via browser based interface. Better than using the telegram text channel.
11. I also run Claude Code on the Oracle Gateway.. Fortunately, the iOS app also give me an interface to remotely run the Claude Code there.

Until now, I am happy and have a 27x7 OpenClaw+LLM+Claude Code without a single penny spent. I can use this for free for the next 6 months:-) After that, I may ask my friend to register another account for me at Oracle and I can have another 6 months for free