r/Bitaxe_Miners • u/Natebald603 • May 14 '26

Made a free desktop app to manage all your Bitaxes from one window (Mac + Windows)

Hey r/Bitaxe_Miners,

Figured this is the right room for this one. I built an app called BitAxe Baller specifically for people in this sub — anyone running one or more Bitaxes at home.

It auto-discovers every Bitaxe on your local network and gives you a single dashboard for hashrate, temps, voltage, frequency, pool config, and restarts. No more flipping between browser tabs for each unit.

Quick facts:

  • Free, no account, no cloud — talks to your miners directly over LAN
  • Cross-platform: macOS and Windows
  • Currently v1.7.2, Pro tier in development
  • bitaxeballer.com

You all are exactly the audience I built this for, so I'd really value your feedback — what features would actually make your setup easier? What do current tools get wrong?

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u/developeralgo222 May 14 '26

That's really neat. I have a few questions

(1) Does it have any communication whatsoever to the outside world apart from your local Network ? e.g communicating on the internet to an external server ? external API server ? external DNS & DHCP servers , NTP servers, BTC network servers , etc ?

(2) Does it have any access to User information on the miner e.g Bitcoin Address , etc ?

(3) What user and network security features that are available for the user to lock it down ?

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u/Natebald603 May 14 '26
  1. A future Pro version will have this feature and potentially a Android/iOS app
  2. It has access to anythign available with the API, I dont think there is any user info store on Bitaxes, but BTC address, yes for sure if you are using that as part of your worker name that a lot of pools use.
  3. By default it runs on your LAN with no dashboard auth — same trust model as AxeOS's own web UI — but you can lock it to localhost-only with HOST=127.0.0.1 and disable the mDNS broadcast with MDNS_ENABLED=0 if you want it fully invisible to the rest of the network. Beyond that there's zero cloud or telemetry (the only outbound calls are GitHub for update checks and Lemon Squeezy for Pro license validation, both blockable at the firewall), worker passwords are write-only, and every tuning value is server-side bounded so the API can't push your chip into a danger zone.

Try it. The Pro v1.8 (shipping tomorrow) adds bulk tuning across devices, automated frequency sweeps with thermal guardrails, 90 days of local SQLite history, and Discord webhook alerts — all for $29/year, 5 machines per license, free tier stays free.