# Grok Bot 0.68.1 (macOS): Mac shows disconnected while awake and in use; local computer doesn't reconnect until app is focused

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/grok-bot-0-68-1-macos-mac-shows-disconnected-while-awake-and-in-use-local-computer-doesnt-reconnect-until-app-is-focused/174223>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** macos, networking, grok-bot\
**Created:** [October 9, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/grok-bot-0-68-1-macos-mac-shows-disconnected-while-awake-and-in-use-local-computer-doesnt-reconnect-until-app-is-focused/174223 "2026-10-09T16:08:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/grok-bot-0-68-1-macos-mac-shows-disconnected-while-awake-and-in-use-local-computer-doesnt-reconnect-until-app-is-focused/174223/12 "2026-10-11T11:59:58Z")

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Hey, thanks for adding more detail, especially around the timing and logs.

@fablau, @tdeckers - your cases are a bit different from what we were discussing earlier in this thread. If Grok Bot is always in the foreground, the machine is caffeinated, the display stays on, and in @tdeckers’s case it’s Linux with no sleep or lock and the app runs as a single process with no restart, that doesn’t really match the “away” behavior after being idle without focus. This looks like a separate variation, and it’s worth tracking on its own.

So we don’t mix it into this thread, @tdeckers - could you please start a separate thread for the Linux case? You already have a great write-up with timestamps, so just move it there. And @fablau, if you can, please include this in a separate thread too: the app version, OS, and an excerpt from `~/.grokbot/local-exec-daemon.log` with the disconnect timing and the moment the bot tried to reach the machine. That’ll make it easier for the team to separate this case from away-park.

@gshall - using Tailscale as a workaround sounds totally valid, thanks for sharing that.

I’ll post here on the main case once there’s an update.

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