Roadmap
What we've shipped, what's next, and where we're headed
Shipped
- 🛰️ VDL2 datalink decoding our priority — Feed 136 MHz aircraft datalink (OOOI, position, weather). One-liner
vdl2.sh, acars_router fan-out, or bare dumpvdl2. Set up VDL2 → - 🛰️ Public VDL2 stream & datalink API — An open, public real-time VDL2 WebSocket (
?channel=vdl2) plus REST datalink endpoints (/api/v2/messages/*) - Open-source feeder script — MIT licensed on GitHub with full privacy statement
- One-liner install — Auto-detects decoder, location, and platform. Pre-built mlat-client wheels for Pi 3/4/5 and x86_64
- Docker / Ultrafeeder support — Two-line config, complete Compose examples, multi-aggregator compatible
- WebSocket feed — Real-time push with delta compression and sequence validation
- Feeder dashboard — Live signal meter, RSSI stats, coverage radar, 7-day performance trends
- Watchlist alerts — Discord webhook and push notifications when tracked aircraft appear
- Feeder offline alerts — Email, Discord, and push notification when your feeder stops reporting to the network (opt-in)
- Network status page — Real-time service health at /status
- Security hardening — 7 rounds of red-team testing: CSRF, CSP, rate limiting, SSRF prevention, input sanitization, IDOR checks
- Clean uninstall — Full removal script, preserves UUID by default, never touches your decoder
- Remote dashboard access — View your feeder stats from any network using your API token
- Feeder leaderboard — Top contributors ranked by aircraft seen, messages relayed, and uptime
Up Next
- API usage dashboard — See your request counts, rate limit status, and usage history
Planned
- Public API tier — Limited read-only access without authentication for community projects and hackathons
- Historical flight data — API access to archived positions and routes (Parquet-backed)
- MLAT performance metrics — Per-feeder multilateration quality scores and peer comparison
- Mobile-friendly dashboard — Responsive feeder stats and alerts for phone and tablet
Exploring
- Embeddable widgets — Drop-in HTML snippets to show live aircraft on your own website or blog
- Feeder achievement badges — Milestones for uptime, aircraft count, and coverage contributions
- InfluxDB / Grafana export — Push your feeder stats to your own monitoring stack
This roadmap reflects our current plans and may change based on community feedback and priorities. Have a feature request? GitHub.