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Elite Trader

A lightweight Elite Dangerous companion — live journal reading, a local 36-million-price market database, profit-per-hour trade loops, exploration & exobiology tools, in-game route plotting, and a tablet cockpit mode. Runs on your machine, serves every screen to any device on your home network.

Start here

I want to…	Read
Install and run it	Getting Started
Find profitable trade routes	Trade Routes & Market Tools
Make money exploring / scanning biology	Exploration & Exobiology
Plan exobio / Road to Riches / neutron routes	Guides & Route Planners
Stack massacre missions / track combat	Combat & Missions
Plan engineering upgrades	Engineering
Put it on a tablet next to my HOTAS	Flight Panel Mode
Let it plot routes in the game for me	Autoplot
Understand the market database	Market Database
Change settings / ports / folders	Settings & Configuration
Fix a problem	Troubleshooting & FAQ

The three-minute version

1. Install — download EliteTrader.exe from Releases (no Python needed) and run it. Or clone the repo and run run.bat / run.sh.
2. Play — the app finds your Elite Dangerous journal automatically and fills in your commander, ship, location, credits and history.
3. Build the database (optional but recommended) — Database tab → Build Database. ~15 minutes later you have every station market in the galaxy, kept fresh in real time by the community EDDN feed.
4. Open it anywhere — the startup log prints a LAN URL (e.g. http://192.168.1.65:8666); open it on your phone or tablet and tap ◈ PANEL for the cockpit display.

Credits

Elite Trader stands on the community's shoulders: EDDN (live market data, which the app also contributes back to), Spansh (galaxy dumps, route APIs, body data), Inara, EDSM and EDCD. Not affiliated with Frontier Developments; Elite Dangerous is a trademark of Frontier Developments plc.

Disclaimer: this codebase was AI-generated with Claude (Fable 5), directed and play-tested against a live game. Personal project, shared as-is — anyone is welcome to use it.