diff --git a/server/src/plugin/plugin-console.ts b/server/src/plugin/plugin-console.ts
index dd83342989..0f6925a8da 100644
--- a/server/src/plugin/plugin-console.ts
+++ b/server/src/plugin/plugin-console.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-import { ScryptedNativeId } from '@scrypted/types'
-import { listenZero } from '../listen-zero';
-import { Server } from 'net';
-import { once } from 'events';
-import net from 'net'
-import { Readable, PassThrough } from 'stream';
+import { DeviceManager, ScryptedNativeId, SystemManager } from '@scrypted/types';
 import { Console } from 'console';
+import { once } from 'events';
+import net, { Server } from 'net';
+import { PassThrough, Readable } from 'stream';
+import { listenZero } from '../listen-zero';
 
 export interface ConsoleServer {
     pluginConsole: Console;
@@ -20,6 +19,155 @@ export interface StdPassThroughs {
     buffers: Buffer[];
 }
 
+export function getConsole(hook: (stdout: PassThrough, stderr: PassThrough) => Promise<void>,
+    also?: Console, alsoPrefix?: string)  {
+
+    const stdout = new PassThrough();
+    const stderr = new PassThrough();
+
+    hook(stdout, stderr);
+
+    const ret = new Console(stdout, stderr);
+
+    const methods = [
+        'log', 'warn',
+        'dir', 'timeLog',
+        'trace', 'assert',
+        'clear', 'count',
+        'countReset', 'group',
+        'groupEnd', 'table',
+        'debug', 'info',
+        'dirxml', 'error',
+        'groupCollapsed',
+    ];
+
+    const printers = ['log', 'info', 'debug', 'trace', 'warn', 'error'];
+    for (const m of methods) {
+        const old = (ret as any)[m].bind(ret);
+        (ret as any)[m] = (...args: any[]) => {
+            // prefer the mixin version for local/remote console dump.
+            if (also && alsoPrefix && printers.includes(m)) {
+                (also as any)[m](alsoPrefix, ...args);
+            }
+            else {
+                (console as any)[m](...args);
+            }
+            // call through to old method to ensure it gets written
+            // to log buffer.
+            old(...args);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return ret;
+}
+
+export function prepareConsoles(consoleName: string, systemManager: () => SystemManager, deviceManager: () => DeviceManager, getPlugins: () => Promise<any>) {
+    const deviceConsoles = new Map<string, Console>();
+    function getDeviceConsole (nativeId?: ScryptedNativeId) {
+        // the the plugin console is simply the default console
+        // and gets read from stderr/stdout.
+        if (!nativeId)
+            return console;
+
+        let ret = deviceConsoles.get(nativeId);
+        if (ret)
+            return ret;
+
+        ret = getConsole(async (stdout, stderr) => {
+            const connect = async () => {
+                const plugins = await getPlugins();
+                const port = await plugins.getRemoteServicePort(consoleName, 'console-writer');
+                const socket = net.connect(port);
+                socket.write(nativeId + '\n');
+                const writer = (data: Buffer) => {
+                    socket.write(data);
+                };
+                stdout.on('data', writer);
+                stderr.on('data', writer);
+                socket.on('error', () => {
+                    stdout.removeAllListeners();
+                    stderr.removeAllListeners();
+                    stdout.pause();
+                    stderr.pause();
+                    setTimeout(connect, 10000);
+                });
+            };
+            connect();
+        }, undefined, undefined);
+
+        deviceConsoles.set(nativeId, ret);
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    const mixinConsoles = new Map<string, Map<string, Console>>();
+
+    function getMixinConsole(mixinId: string, nativeId: ScryptedNativeId) {
+        let nativeIdConsoles = mixinConsoles.get(nativeId);
+        if (!nativeIdConsoles) {
+            nativeIdConsoles = new Map();
+            mixinConsoles.set(nativeId, nativeIdConsoles);
+        }
+
+        let ret = nativeIdConsoles.get(mixinId);
+        if (ret)
+            return ret;
+
+        ret = getConsole(async (stdout, stderr) => {
+            if (!mixinId) {
+                return;
+            }
+            const reconnect = () => {
+                stdout.removeAllListeners();
+                stderr.removeAllListeners();
+                stdout.pause();
+                stderr.pause();
+                setTimeout(tryConnect, 10000);
+            };
+
+            const connect = async () => {
+                const ds = deviceManager().getDeviceState(nativeId);
+                if (!ds) {
+                    // deleted?
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                const plugins = await getPlugins();
+                const { pluginId, nativeId: mixinNativeId } = await plugins.getDeviceInfo(mixinId);
+                const port = await plugins.getRemoteServicePort(pluginId, 'console-writer');
+                const socket = net.connect(port);
+                socket.write(mixinNativeId + '\n');
+                const writer = (data: Buffer) => {
+                    let str = data.toString().trim();
+                    str = str.replaceAll('\n', `\n[${ds.name}]: `);
+                    str = `[${ds.name}]: ` + str + '\n';
+                    socket.write(str);
+                };
+                stdout.on('data', writer);
+                stderr.on('data', writer);
+                socket.on('close', reconnect);
+            };
+
+            const tryConnect = async () => {
+                try {
+                    await connect();
+                }
+                catch (e) {
+                    reconnect();
+                }
+            }
+            tryConnect();
+        }, getDeviceConsole(nativeId), `[${systemManager().getDeviceById(mixinId)?.name}]`);
+
+        nativeIdConsoles.set(mixinId, ret);
+        return ret;
+    }
+    
+    return {
+        getDeviceConsole,
+        getMixinConsole,
+    }
+}
+
 export async function createConsoleServer(remoteStdout: Readable, remoteStderr: Readable, header: string) {
     const outputs = new Map<string, StdPassThroughs>();
 
diff --git a/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote-stats.ts b/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote-stats.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf1350a3d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote-stats.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import { NodeThreadWorker } from "./runtime/node-thread-worker";
+
+export interface PluginStats {
+    type: 'stats',
+    cpu: NodeJS.CpuUsage;
+    memoryUsage: NodeJS.MemoryUsage;
+}
+
+export function startStatsUpdater(allMemoryStats: Map<NodeThreadWorker, NodeJS.MemoryUsage>, updateStats: (stats: PluginStats) => void) {
+    setInterval(() => {
+        const cpuUsage = process.cpuUsage();
+        allMemoryStats.set(undefined, process.memoryUsage());
+
+        const memoryUsage: NodeJS.MemoryUsage = {
+            rss: 0,
+            heapTotal: 0,
+            heapUsed: 0,
+            external: 0,
+            arrayBuffers: 0,
+        }
+
+        for (const mu of allMemoryStats.values()) {
+            memoryUsage.rss += mu.rss;
+            memoryUsage.heapTotal += mu.heapTotal;
+            memoryUsage.heapUsed += mu.heapUsed;
+            memoryUsage.external += mu.external;
+            memoryUsage.arrayBuffers += mu.arrayBuffers;
+        }
+
+        updateStats({
+            type: 'stats',
+            cpu: cpuUsage,
+            memoryUsage,
+        });
+    }, 10000);
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote-worker.ts b/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote-worker.ts
index 42e613c6fd..e58684f9b0 100644
--- a/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote-worker.ts
+++ b/server/src/plugin/plugin-remote-worker.ts
@@ -1,27 +1,20 @@
-import { DeviceManager, ScryptedNativeId, ScryptedStatic, SystemManager } from '@scrypted/types';
+import { ScryptedStatic, SystemManager } from '@scrypted/types';
 import AdmZip from 'adm-zip';
-import { Console } from 'console';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import { Volume } from 'memfs';
-import net from 'net';
 import path from 'path';
 import { install as installSourceMapSupport } from 'source-map-support';
-import { PassThrough } from 'stream';
 import { RpcMessage, RpcPeer } from '../rpc';
 import { MediaManagerImpl } from './media';
 import { PluginAPI, PluginAPIProxy, PluginRemote, PluginRemoteLoadZipOptions } from './plugin-api';
+import { prepareConsoles } from './plugin-console';
 import { installOptionalDependencies } from './plugin-npm-dependencies';
 import { attachPluginRemote, DeviceManagerImpl, PluginReader, setupPluginRemote } from './plugin-remote';
+import { PluginStats, startStatsUpdater } from './plugin-remote-stats';
 import { createREPLServer } from './plugin-repl';
 import { NodeThreadWorker } from './runtime/node-thread-worker';
 const { link } = require('linkfs');
 
-interface PluginStats {
-    type: 'stats',
-    cpu: NodeJS.CpuUsage;
-    memoryUsage: NodeJS.MemoryUsage;
-}
-
 const serverVersion = require('../../package.json').version;
 
 export function startPluginRemote(pluginId: string, peerSend: (message: RpcMessage, reject?: (e: Error) => void, serializationContext?: any) => void) {
@@ -31,47 +24,6 @@ export function startPluginRemote(pluginId: string, peerSend: (message: RpcMessa
     let deviceManager: DeviceManagerImpl;
     let api: PluginAPI;
 
-    const getConsole = (hook: (stdout: PassThrough, stderr: PassThrough) => Promise<void>,
-        also?: Console, alsoPrefix?: string) => {
-
-        const stdout = new PassThrough();
-        const stderr = new PassThrough();
-
-        hook(stdout, stderr);
-
-        const ret = new Console(stdout, stderr);
-
-        const methods = [
-            'log', 'warn',
-            'dir', 'timeLog',
-            'trace', 'assert',
-            'clear', 'count',
-            'countReset', 'group',
-            'groupEnd', 'table',
-            'debug', 'info',
-            'dirxml', 'error',
-            'groupCollapsed',
-        ];
-
-        const printers = ['log', 'info', 'debug', 'trace', 'warn', 'error'];
-        for (const m of methods) {
-            const old = (ret as any)[m].bind(ret);
-            (ret as any)[m] = (...args: any[]) => {
-                // prefer the mixin version for local/remote console dump.
-                if (also && alsoPrefix && printers.includes(m)) {
-                    (also as any)[m](alsoPrefix, ...args);
-                }
-                else {
-                    (console as any)[m](...args);
-                }
-                // call through to old method to ensure it gets written
-                // to log buffer.
-                old(...args);
-            }
-        }
-
-        return ret;
-    }
 
     let pluginsPromise: Promise<any>;
     function getPlugins() {
@@ -80,138 +32,13 @@ export function startPluginRemote(pluginId: string, peerSend: (message: RpcMessa
         return pluginsPromise;
     }
 
-    const deviceConsoles = new Map<string, Console>();
-    const getDeviceConsole = (nativeId?: ScryptedNativeId) => {
-        // the the plugin console is simply the default console
-        // and gets read from stderr/stdout.
-        if (!nativeId)
-            return console;
-
-        let ret = deviceConsoles.get(nativeId);
-        if (ret)
-            return ret;
-
-        ret = getConsole(async (stdout, stderr) => {
-            const connect = async () => {
-                const plugins = await getPlugins();
-                const port = await plugins.getRemoteServicePort(peer.selfName, 'console-writer');
-                const socket = net.connect(port);
-                socket.write(nativeId + '\n');
-                const writer = (data: Buffer) => {
-                    socket.write(data);
-                };
-                stdout.on('data', writer);
-                stderr.on('data', writer);
-                socket.on('error', () => {
-                    stdout.removeAllListeners();
-                    stderr.removeAllListeners();
-                    stdout.pause();
-                    stderr.pause();
-                    setTimeout(connect, 10000);
-                });
-            };
-            connect();
-        }, undefined, undefined);
-
-        deviceConsoles.set(nativeId, ret);
-        return ret;
-    }
-
-    const mixinConsoles = new Map<string, Map<string, Console>>();
-
-    const getMixinConsole = (mixinId: string, nativeId: ScryptedNativeId) => {
-        let nativeIdConsoles = mixinConsoles.get(nativeId);
-        if (!nativeIdConsoles) {
-            nativeIdConsoles = new Map();
-            mixinConsoles.set(nativeId, nativeIdConsoles);
-        }
-
-        let ret = nativeIdConsoles.get(mixinId);
-        if (ret)
-            return ret;
-
-        ret = getConsole(async (stdout, stderr) => {
-            if (!mixinId) {
-                return;
-            }
-            const reconnect = () => {
-                stdout.removeAllListeners();
-                stderr.removeAllListeners();
-                stdout.pause();
-                stderr.pause();
-                setTimeout(tryConnect, 10000);
-            };
-
-            const connect = async () => {
-                const ds = deviceManager.getDeviceState(nativeId);
-                if (!ds) {
-                    // deleted?
-                    return;
-                }
-
-                const plugins = await getPlugins();
-                const { pluginId, nativeId: mixinNativeId } = await plugins.getDeviceInfo(mixinId);
-                const port = await plugins.getRemoteServicePort(pluginId, 'console-writer');
-                const socket = net.connect(port);
-                socket.write(mixinNativeId + '\n');
-                const writer = (data: Buffer) => {
-                    let str = data.toString().trim();
-                    str = str.replaceAll('\n', `\n[${ds.name}]: `);
-                    str = `[${ds.name}]: ` + str + '\n';
-                    socket.write(str);
-                };
-                stdout.on('data', writer);
-                stderr.on('data', writer);
-                socket.on('close', reconnect);
-            };
-
-            const tryConnect = async () => {
-                try {
-                    await connect();
-                }
-                catch (e) {
-                    reconnect();
-                }
-            }
-            tryConnect();
-        }, getDeviceConsole(nativeId), `[${systemManager.getDeviceById(mixinId)?.name}]`);
-
-        nativeIdConsoles.set(mixinId, ret);
-        return ret;
-    }
+    const { getDeviceConsole, getMixinConsole } = prepareConsoles(peer.selfName, () => systemManager, () => deviceManager, getPlugins);
 
     // process.cpuUsage is for the entire process.
     // process.memoryUsage is per thread.
     const allMemoryStats = new Map<NodeThreadWorker, NodeJS.MemoryUsage>();
 
-    peer.getParam('updateStats').then((updateStats: (stats: PluginStats) => void) => {
-        setInterval(() => {
-            const cpuUsage = process.cpuUsage();
-            allMemoryStats.set(undefined, process.memoryUsage());
-
-            const memoryUsage: NodeJS.MemoryUsage = {
-                rss: 0,
-                heapTotal: 0,
-                heapUsed: 0,
-                external: 0,
-                arrayBuffers: 0,
-            }
-
-            for (const mu of allMemoryStats.values()) {
-                memoryUsage.rss += mu.rss;
-                memoryUsage.heapTotal += mu.heapTotal;
-                memoryUsage.heapUsed += mu.heapUsed;
-                memoryUsage.external += mu.external;
-                memoryUsage.arrayBuffers += mu.arrayBuffers;
-            }
-
-            updateStats({
-                type: 'stats',
-                cpu: cpuUsage,
-                memoryUsage,
-            });
-        }, 10000);
-    });
+    peer.getParam('updateStats').then(updateStats => startStatsUpdater(allMemoryStats, updateStats));
 
     let replPort: Promise<number>;