Roadmap

Preset views (Aircraft, Weather, Radio, Mesh, Everything), one search box for everything, active-filter chips and per-layer filter sections.

The top menu and a bottom bar stay in view while you scroll long pages, on phones too.

Admin settings regrouped into a sub-menu of shorter pages, with a search for any setting.

Find a person, station, MLAT connection or map layer by typing.

Search and sort the public Feeders list, and sort Flights, Flight History and Airports by any column.

Separate pages for ADS-B, MLAT, UAT and Am I Feeding, with room for weather stations, ACARS and more.

What the network covers, filterable by type: ADS-B, MLAT, UAT and later repeaters, radiosondes, weather and mesh.

Each person picks which page they land on after signing in.

County and city boundaries, major roads, ZIP codes and hospitals with their trauma level and services, tied to their heliports, searchable by city or ZIP, with a drill-down panel showing everything nearby.

Members' own weather stations (Ecowitt, Tempest, Weather Underground and more) with their own pages, current conditions, rain, wind, lightning and history, and a weather layer on the map, in the style of Weather Underground.

Weather balloons launched near Arkansas: live tracks, predicted landing places and which of our stations heard them, using the public SondeHub data.

An Arkansas directory of repeaters in every mode (FM, DMR, D-STAR, Fusion, P25 and more) laid out like the airports, started from open data and local lists and kept right by the community. Anyone signed in can submit one or report a correction.

Where the mesh nodes are, how far they reach, and what keeps the network healthy, with a guide for joining the Arkansas mesh.

Aircraft datalink messages received by member stations, shown on the aircraft details and on a live messages page.

Positions of aircraft reported over Inmarsat, Iridium and HF radio by members with the right receivers.

Replay a past day and see where traffic flies, built into the map instead of the embedded classic tools.

Multi-select, persistence mode, QNH-corrected altitude and the remaining options of the classic tar1090 map.

A second pass on phones, driven by real-world feedback.

Account verification, password reset by email and alert emails, once a sending service is chosen.

Limit the Admin area to chosen addresses.

Request a key for a documented public API with fair limits.

Designed so the hub, the MLAT server and the portal can run on more than one machine and share the load.

The network now covers far more than ADS-B (weather, radio, mesh and more), so it becomes ArkSignal, at arksignal.allisononline.org. The old addresses keep working for everyone already feeding.

A broad ArkSignal overview with live numbers and a card for each service (aircraft, weather, radio, mesh and more). Aircraft tracking becomes its own landing page, and every other service gets one tailored to it.

Submit a new repeater, flag a wrong frequency or tone or one that is off the air, and let sysops keep their own current, with a review queue and credit to contributors.

National Weather Service warnings (tornado, severe storm, flood) drawn as areas, with alerts to subscribers.

USGS earthquake activity (New Madrid zone) and river and lake levels across Arkansas.

Barges and boats on the Arkansas, White and Mississippi rivers from member AIS receivers.

APRS stations, space weather and HF propagation, net schedules and Winlink gateways.

Drones that broadcast their identity and position, from member receivers.

GOES satellite and lightning layers, and pass predictions for satellites over each station.

Alerts in Discord, an installable phone app, and a wall-display mode for clubs and emergency operations centers.

Friendly recognition for range, uptime and contribution.

Which aircraft flew over Arkansas, with photos, airlines and routes, plus a list of interesting aircraft (military, government, rare). Notifications to Discord and others are set up by an administrator.

Encrypted copies of everything (database, settings, statistics, traffic history) sent to a server, bucket or NAS elsewhere, a small daily copy and a big weekly copy.

Bring back one area (accounts, stations, flight history...) or a single person, station or alert rule instead of everything.

Show only helicopters, jets, turboprops, piston props, large and heavy aircraft, gliders, drones or ground vehicles.

Every group of map filters folds up like the aircraft details, remembers how you left it, and shows how many filters are active.

The shortcuts help opens in the middle of the screen, on top of everything.

Registration and password forms list the requirements and tick them as you type, including whether the two passwords match.

These two pages update themselves from the project's repository, so they stay current while work is under way.

A page for donations toward running costs (Ko-fi and PayPal) and an equipment fund for antennas, receivers and mesh nodes the project installs at host sites. The page appears once the project's donation links are set up.

New services appear on the hub with the Update button and no commands: the stack updater, MLAT and the hub itself.

A network MLAT server, MLAT status for every station, an MLAT network page showing who is synchronised with whom, and recognition by MLAT user name.

The aircraft card says whether a position came from ADS-B, MLAT, UAT/ADS-R, TIS-B or none, and how many stations hear it.

A plain-words status page for everyone and an in-depth one for administrators.

How ADS-B, MLAT and UAT work, setup for new and existing stations, ports, troubleshooting and privacy.

Units (aeronautical, metric, imperial), keyboard shortcuts, search with lists and wildcards, data source and flags filters, jump to a place, shareable links, altitude chart and KML export.

What was added, improved and fixed in every release, back to the first.