Hey chaps,
Often for the purposes of keeping things going I’ll be rendering on our render servers but with “use local host” unchecked so as I can keep working. It’s fantastic.
I would like to propose a tweak to it; the ability to un-check it once a render has started. At the moment it is greyed out, meaning I have to stop the render if I wish to utilise my PC’s resources to continue working.
Hope this makes sense and is easy to achieve! 
Kind regards,
Chris
Yes that sounds like a good idea
Un-checking it is easy; would you ever need the reverse though? (Adding the local machine at render time is not that easy :)) In any case will make a note about it.
Best regards,
Vlado
would starting a spawner on local machine work if there is enough ram?
A scenario that prompted me to post this.
I had left my PC and all the render servers running overnight on an animation, came in in the morning and it was still rendering. I didn’t want to have to cancel the render and restart it at x-frame (I hadn’t precalced the light cache so it could have rendered differently too); I just simply wanted to be able to use my PC for day-to-day use whilst the servers kept on rendering.