Coverage map

The other main view, peer to the Monitor: your network on the map. You switch with the Monitor | Map toggle in the bar — and when you do, live monitoring keeps running in the background.

It is a design plan, meant as a field view: where your nodes are, what each AP covers and how its stations are doing, at a glance.

Nodes: the site, not the device

A node is the physical site your APs hang from: the tower, the rooftop mast, the pole. You register it with "Register node", placing it on the map (and relocate it later with its "Position" button — Enter applies, Esc puts it back where it was).

Its card is the site's hub: the coordinates, renaming, relocating, and the list of its APs — each with its sector color and frequency, to read at a glance what that tower has on. From there you also plan an AP that does not exist yet.

Deleting a node deletes its planning

Real APs survive without a node (they are just not drawn); planned APs do not exist outside their node — deleting it deletes them too, and the dialog says so.

APs and their sectors

An AP is drawn once you assign it to a node — without a node it has no real position. From the "Assign APs" panel you choose which APs live on each node (with a search box and a free-APs filter), and for each one you adjust its coverage sector:

• Azimuth — where it points.
• Beamwidth — how wide the beam is.
• Range — how far its coverage is painted.

Sectors are colored by frequency band, so overlaps between your own APs jump out.

It is a plan, not an RF prediction

The sector paints what you declare (azimuth, beamwidth, range). It does not compute terrain or line of sight — the app does not promise coverage it cannot verify.

Planning an AP that does not exist yet

On the node's card, "Añadir AP planificado" draws the sector of a device that is not installed yet: you pick its azimuth, beamwidth and range, and the sector is painted on the map just like a real one — same geometry, same reading. It answers, before buying or climbing to the roof, what would an AP here, aimed there, cover? Does it overlap with what I already have? It is drawing only: it does not count as a device and is not diagnosed, and the card itself says so.

The moment it exists for arrives with the install: the "Pasar los ajustes a un AP…" button pours the plan onto the real device — it copies the geometry, assigns it to the node and removes the planned one, in a single operation. Since it overwrites a real device's settings and there is no undo, it asks for confirmation showing exactly what will be replaced.

Stations on the map

Stations are placed by their own coordinates — the ones the radio has registered (Location/GPS in its interface). Without coordinates, a station is not drawn: its card says so and the search list marks it "No coordinates". That is deliberate — it pushes you to register the real location on the antenna, not to invent one.

Three things the map says with its drawing:

• Each dot's color is the full diagnosis — the same verdict as the Monitor, not signal alone. The map dot and the table never contradict each other.
• The link is drawn to the real AP — the line goes from the station to the AP it is actually associated with, not to the nearest node. If that AP is not on the map, the station is drawn without a line.
• An absent station is drawn hollow — it keeps the color its link was in (dashed ring, faint fill) and its card says "Absent · seen N ago". Falling while critical is not the same as falling while fine, and the hollow tells you that color is a memory.

Searching and moving around

The side search drives the view: clicking a result — station, AP or node — selects it and centers the map on it (zooming in if needed, never out). The selected station gets a halo and its link becomes a solid line: "this one, and it hangs off that AP".

Cards also carry a crosshair button ("Center") to re-frame the selection.

Support tools

• Mark — drops an ephemeral pin to copy coordinates (latitude and longitude, together or separately): handy for pasting into a freshly installed antenna's interface. It is not saved in the project.
• Base map — Automatic (follows the app's theme), Light or Dark. Map images are downloaded from public providers — the privacy detail is in Security and privacy.

The map travels in snapshots

Every snapshot freezes that moment's plan: opening the capture — or a shared .ssnap — draws the Map exactly as it was then, read-only. If you enabled "Do not record location" when sharing, the capture goes without a map — see Sharing.