Connect Hardware

Requires NextMAG hardware

NextMAG stations report in through a field gateway over WiFi. There is nothing to pair from this device — readings arrive in the same workspaces you can explore right now.

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Live from a nearby station

No station

No NextMAG is answering on this network. A station serves its readings over its own WiFi, so this device has to be joined to it.

  1. Open Settings → Wi-Fi on this device.
  2. Join the network your station broadcasts — it is named for the unit, like nextmag14.
  3. Come back here. Readings appear on their own.

While joined to a station you will not have internet on this device — that is normal, and the station is not connected to one.

How a NextMAG station connects

  1. 1. The station measures. Sensors on the unit sample the magnetic field continuously, on its own hardware.
  2. 2. The station reports in. A gateway agent on the unit pushes readings to the NextMAG platform over WiFi. It spools to disk when the network drops, so nothing is lost.
  3. 3. This app reads the platform. Readings appear wherever you are — no pairing, no proximity, and no dependence on this device being nearby.

Every demonstration in the app runs right now on built-in data, with no station required.

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Readings reach this app from NextMAG stations reporting in over WiFi. Nothing about you or your phone is collected or transmitted.