Roadmap
What we've shipped, what's next, and where we're headed
Shipped
- 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
- REST API — 54-field aircraft schema including FAA TFMS route data (origin/destination). Bearer token auth
- 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
- Discord community — Join us
- 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
- Home Assistant integration — ADSBiq addon for the HA marketplace
- Feeder health alerts — Push notifications when your feeder goes offline or signal degrades
- 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
Planned (Dormant)
- MQTT real-time feed — Pub/sub aircraft data over MQTT for IoT integrations (Home Assistant, Node-RED, Grafana). Code complete and tested; activation deferred pending policy review of automated trigger use cases. REST and WebSocket feeds are available now.
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