Hi @<1523703961872240640:profile|CrookedWalrus33> ! The way connect works by default is:
While running locally, all the values (and value changes) of a connected object are sent to the backend.
While running remotely (in your case here), all the values sent in the local run are fetched from the backend and the connected dictionary is populated with these values. The values are readonly, chaning them will not have any effect.
To avoid this behaviour, you could use the ignore_remote_overrides=True argument in connect , which will make the connect behave as if it is running locally.