// blog · · by Nathan Baldwin
// The Bitaxe Baller Android app is live on Google Play. A native remote viewer for your home mining fleet: live hashrate, per-device charts, Pro long-term history, biometric unlock, zero tracking. Requires Pro + the desktop app running at home.
The Bitaxe Baller Android app is live on Google Play. If you run Bitaxe miners at home and you’ve ever wished you could glance at the whole fleet from the couch — or from the office, or from a campsite with one bar of signal — that’s the entire point of this release.
It’s a native Android app, and it’s a remote viewer. The desktop app on your home network is still where the real work happens: scanning the LAN, tuning, presets, pool config. The phone app rides the same relay your desktop already uses and gives you a clean, live read on everything from wherever you are.
Open it and you land on the live fleet view: total hashrate, total power draw, average efficiency in J/TH, and how many miners are online. It refreshes every five seconds, same cadence as the desktop dashboard.
Tap any device card and you drop into the per-device drill-down — live metrics, rolling averages from one minute out to one hour, and the hashrate, ASIC-temperature, and VR-temperature charts. Cards are severity-colored the way you’d expect: green for stable, yellow when temps or HW errors start climbing, red for anything critical — overheating, offline, or an error rate over five percent. You can tell the health of the whole fleet at a glance without reading a single number.
If you’re on Pro, the long-term history comes with you: 24-hour, 7-day, 30-day, and 90-day views of hashrate, temperatures, and efficiency. That’s the data that catches the slow problems a live dashboard never will — silicon degradation, dust buildup, ambient drift over a heat wave, a tuning change that quietly cost you efficiency. There’s also a pool and stratum readout (primary and fallback URLs, suggested vs. actual difficulty) and a recent-events feed for tuning changes, restarts, and pool switches.
There’s no network setup to do, and nothing to expose to the internet. The desktop app on your home network opens an outbound connection to relay.bitaxeballer.com. The phone talks to the same relay. Your data is routed through using your Pro license key as the credential. The relay is dumb routing — it moves encrypted bytes and never sees your hashrate, tuning, pool config, or device labels. All the product logic stays on your local install.
Security was the part I spent the most time on, because a remote window into your miners is exactly the kind of thing that should be paranoid by default.
Biometric unlock — fingerprint or face — fires on every cold launch, so your license key never sits somewhere readable without you unlocking first. Session tokens are signed server-side and expire after 24 hours, and they’re revocable instantly: flip off remote access in the desktop app’s Pro modal and every session for your license drops within seconds.
No analytics. No tracking. No third-party SDKs. The app makes exactly three kinds of network calls: a login at startup, the WebSocket to the relay, and the standard system-level calls Android makes no matter what. That’s the whole list. Google Play’s data-safety section reflects it: no data collected, no data shared.
It’s a viewer, not a controller. Tuning, scanning your LAN, and adding new devices all still happen on the desktop app. Remote tuning from the phone is on the public roadmap — it’s the obvious next step — but it’s not in this build, and I’d rather ship the safe read-only window first and get the control surface right than rush it.
And to state the obvious: it’s not a wallet, an exchange, or a payment app. It never touches your funds. It shows you the hashrate your hardware is producing, nothing more.
Three things: a Bitaxe Baller Pro subscription ($29/year, 5 device activations), the free desktop app running on your home network with at least one Bitaxe configured, and remote access switched on in the desktop app’s Pro modal. The mobile app is part of what Pro buys you — the relay infrastructure that powers it is the same plumbing remote access has used since v1.9.
The desktop app stays free, forever, for local use. Pro is what adds the fleet-scale tools and the away-from-home window — and now that window is in your pocket.
Get it on Google Play · What Pro includes
iOS is still to come. The desktop app and the mobile wrapper are MIT-licensed at github.com/465media/bitaxe-baller if you want to read exactly how the license validation and biometric storage work before you trust either with your fleet.
