MCP in LM Studio - Hacker News

Posted by yags 6/25/2025

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jtreminio 6/26/2025|

I’ve been wanting to try LM Studio but I can’t figure out how to use it over local network. My desktop in the living room has the beefy GPU, but I want to use LM Studio from my laptop in bed.

Any suggestions?

numpad0 6/26/2025||

  [>_] -> [.* Settings] -> Serve on local network ( o)

Any OpenAI-compatible client app should work - use IP address of host machine as API server address. API key can be bogus or blank.

skygazer 6/26/2025||

Use an openai compatible API client on your laptop, and LM Studio on your server, and point the client to your server. LM Server can serve an LLM on a desired port using the openai style chat completion API. You can also install openwebui on your server and connect to it via a web browser, and configure it to use the LM Studio connection for its LLM.

smcleod 6/26/2025||

I really like LM Studio but their license / terms of use are very hostile. You're in breach if you use it for anything work related - so just be careful folks!

jmetrikat 6/26/2025||

great! it's very convenient to try mcp servers with local models that way.

just added the `Add to LM Studio` button to the anytype mcp server, looks nice: https://github.com/anyproto/anytype-mcp

bbno4 6/26/2025||

Is there an app that uses OpenRouter / Claude or something locally but has MCP support?

cedws 6/26/2025||

I’m looking for something like this too. Msty is my favourite LLM UI (supports remote + local models) but unfortunately has no MCP support. It looks like they’re trying to nudge people into their web SaaS offering which I have no interest in.

eajr 6/26/2025|||

I've been considering building this. Havent found anything yet.

cchance 6/26/2025||

vscode with roocode... just use the chat window :S

squanchingio 6/25/2025||

I'll be nice to have the MCP servers exposed like LMStudio OpenAI-like endpoints.

zaps 6/25/2025||

Not to be confused with FL Studio

maxcomperatore 6/25/2025||

good.

b0a04gl 6/25/2025|

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