EDLD is a free, open-source commander dashboard for Elite Dangerous on Windows, macOS and Linux. It reads the journal and status files the game writes as you play and turns them into a live picture of your session and your career: combat, trade, mining, exploration, exobiology, missions, PowerPlay, colonization, on foot, and everything you own.
EDCARS, the default interface, is the desktop window drawn as a ship's console. A header band keeps your commander and squadron, vessel, cargo, location, fuel and hull in view, and a rail of eight sections (Command, Helm, Fleet, Exploration, Objectives, Mining, Career and Alerts) frames the windows that belong together. EDCARS comes in four consoles: EDCARS itself; ORDER, an Imperial fleet console of steel pills, panel lights and black glass; REBEL, a Rebel ops board of cream consoles, round lamps and bezelled screens; and ROGUE, an independent freighter's cockpit of riveted plate, amber CRTs and masking tape beside toggle switches. Every dialog opened from it wears the same console. The same windows are also available as a full desktop dashboard, a terminal dashboard that works over SSH, and a plain scrolling feed.
The Helm panel puts your ship's controls on buttons, grouped as automation, flight, ship, combat, power and panels: honk, plot the next stop, supercruise, jump, landing gear, cargo scoop, hardpoints, heat sink, chaff, pips, the maps and more. It is a section of EDCARS, a strip along the foot of the desktop and terminal dashboards, and a page on EDAM, the Android companion. It presses keys only through your own bindings, only while the game has focus, and only once you turn automation on. If a control can't be pressed, the panel tells you why.
Highlights:
- Session and career statistics for every activity, with per-hour rates, from a ledger built directly from your journal
- Route planning with your ship's own drive, fuel and cargo: FSD, neutron and fleet-carrier routes, checked as they are plotted, with the next system copied to the clipboard as you arrive
- Survey routes and finders: Road to Riches, Exomastery, terraformable worlds, trade runs, nearby systems and the nearest service
- Callouts with chimes for first discoveries, unfinished sample runs, motherlodes and a full hold
- Exploration values for every body, with biology nested beneath it
- Every mission in a table for its kind, massacre stacks by faction, the ore a mining mission needs that you already hold, and colonization sites with what they still need
- A Mining window: ring hotspots from your ring maps and surface-mining sites, each a filterable table, editable in place
- Fleet, stored modules, carriers, and the suit you are wearing on foot
- A sell table, mining statistics, and a surface-mining survey with an optional shared squadron sheet
- A streamer stats overlay that steps aside in combat, docked or on foot (Linux X11 and Windows)
- A commander dossier, journal backups, twelve color themes plus your own, and a built-in radio
- Server mode for EDAM on Android, paired by QR code over TLS 1.3 with no account and no service in between
- Opt-in contributions to EDDN, EDSM, EDAstro and Inara, Spansh and Raven Colonial integration, Frontier Companion API sign-in, and Discord webhooks
EDLD sends nothing to its developer, has no telemetry and needs no account. Every outside service it can contact is off until you turn it on, and is listed in the privacy policy with what it sends and when. It never modifies the game or reads its memory.
Help, release news and suggestions: https://discord.indevlin.com
EDLD is an unofficial community tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Frontier Developments.
