Hold a feature back to sell you more
Nothing Nexus does aboard is switched off to make you buy an upgrade, an adapter or a second box.
Why we built Nexus
We started Nexus out of plain frustration. Every piece of gear on our boat wanted us to buy another piece from the same maker. An $85 adapter for a cable that should have been standard. A radar that only works on one brand of screen. A plotter that would plan a route but wouldn't hand it to the autopilot. A monthly fee to see our own boat.
The information was all there, on the boat. It just wasn't allowed to meet.
So we built the thing in the middle. Nexus reads whatever you've got, whoever made it, and puts it to work: watching the anchor, planning the route, keeping the log, and telling you what matters on the devices you already carry. Use what you love, and let Nexus fill in the gaps.
What we won't do
Lock you in
Nexus reads the gear you have, whoever made it. Your routes and tracks leave as standard GPX files, to any app you like.
Take your boat's data
What your boat knows stays on your boat. Anything kept anywhere else, like a cloud copy of the log or a shared track, is off until you turn it on.
Pretend to be the lookout
Nexus is an aid to watchkeeping, not a substitute for a proper lookout, good seamanship or official charts. When safety and convenience pull different ways, safety wins.
Built on open work
Nexus stands on the work of people who shared theirs. Thank you.
- canboat: the open catalogue of NMEA 2000 messages. It's how Nexus reads every brand on your network.
- radar_pi, the OpenCPN radar plugin, and Mayara: they worked out how marine radars talk. Our radar reader follows what they documented.
- Public data: charts from NOAA and the US Army Corps of Engineers; maps from OpenStreetMap contributors and CARTO; forecasts and sea state from Open-Meteo and Copernicus.
Talk to us
Questions, ideas, or a piece of gear you'd like Nexus to read: email info@compendiumnav.com. We read everything.