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Frameshift

A local-first Elite Dangerous companion — live journal reading, a local 36-million-price market database, profit-per-hour trade loops, exploration & exobiology tools, a complete offline engineering catalog, Powerplay & BGS awareness, session planning, and a touch-first flight panel. Runs on your machine, serves every screen on your home network.

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I want to…	Read
Install and run it	Getting Started
Put it on a tablet next to my HOTAS	Flight Panel Mode
Pair a device / understand permissions	Device Pairing & Security
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
Track Powerplay, factions and conflicts	Galaxy & Powerplay
Plan a play session / keep objectives	Mission Control & Ops
Mine, fight, run a carrier, sample on foot	Specialist Workspaces (ROLES)
Stack massacre missions / track combat	Combat & Missions
Plan engineering upgrades	Engineering
Let it plot routes in the game for me	Autoplot
Understand the market database	Market Database
Build my own alerts & extensions (no code)	Settings & Configuration
Change settings / themes / ports / folders	Settings & Configuration
Fix a problem	Troubleshooting & FAQ

The three-minute version

1. Install — download Frameshift.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 rebuilds your cockpit from it: commander, ship, location, credits, missions and history. A short startup sequence shows the replay working.
3. Build the database (recommended) — ⚙ SETTINGS 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. Pair your tablet — ⚙ SETTINGS → Paired Devices shows a one-time QR code; scan it and the tablet opens in the touch-first Panel view. See Device Pairing & Security.

Credits

Frameshift 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. Bundled open-source work: EDEngineer reference data, Project Nayuki's QR generator and Piper TTS. Not affiliated with Frontier Developments; Elite Dangerous is a trademark of Frontier Developments plc.

Disclaimer: this codebase was AI-generated with Claude (Fable 5) and GPT 5.6 SOL Ultra, directed and play-tested against a live game. Personal project, shared as-is — anyone is welcome to use it.

Formerly "Elite Trader": the app was renamed at v2.0.0. Old installs keep updating automatically, and an installed EliteTrader.exe keeps its filename while running Frameshift — both are normal.