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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.
▶ Watch the demo (1:39) — live flight status, locally-computed trade routes, mining & commodity search, exobiology tracking, route planners and earnings analytics.
| I want to… | Read |
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| 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 |
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Install — download
EliteTrader.exefrom Releases (no Python needed) and run it. Or clone the repo and runrun.bat/run.sh. - Play — the app finds your Elite Dangerous journal automatically and fills in your commander, ship, location, credits and history.
- 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.
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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.
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.