Receiving live data
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v1.4.3Changelog
v1.4.3 — 2026-10-22
- Technical maintenance: internal improvements to stability and operations
v1.4.2 — 2026-10-22
- Technical maintenance: minor behind-the-scenes improvements
v1.4.1 — 2026-10-21
- More of the ships' destination entries are recognised and shown readably instead of just as a code, e.g. the Suez Canal transit, Khor Fakkan (UAE), Port Said and Singapore
v1.4.0 — 2026-10-15
- Arrival countdown: the box at the top now shows, in large type, how many hours or days until the ship arrives according to its ETA
- The app can now be installed on the home screen, with its own icon and launch screen (on iPhone and iPad too)
- API docs: Home Assistant example (“notify me on arrival”)
v1.3.1 — 2026-10-15
- An ETA that has already passed is no longer shown and no longer included in the Discord post – crews often leave it unchanged after arrival or a delay
- Destinations written like “CN NBG=>SG SIN” (arrow separator, space inside the port code) are now recognised
v1.3.0 — 2026-10-11
- Estimated time of arrival (ETA): when the crew reports one, it now appears for each ship, in the box at the top, in link previews and in the Discord post
- Arrivals are recorded: when a ship with a confirmed destination reaches its German port, there is a Discord post and an entry in the RSS feed
- New “Arrivals” page listing every recorded arrival, with the latest ones on the homepage as well. Arrivals from the last 30 days are filled in from the stored voyage data
- Public API: new eta field for ships, new event type arrived and a type filter for events
v1.2.0 — 2026-10-11
- Shared ship links now show their own preview with the ship's name, status and destination, e.g. in Discord, WhatsApp or Signal, instead of just the general logo
- The Discord post for a ship heading to Germany now comes as a clear card with destination, position and speed
v1.1.3 — 2026-10-10
- Maintenance: minor behind-the-scenes improvements
v1.1.2 — 2026-10-10
- Maintenance: internal improvements to stability and operations
v1.1.1 — 2026-10-10
- The site now dresses up for certain times of the year, with a seasonal note in the header – try dropping by in December
- A few small surprises tucked away for attentive visitors – we are not saying more than that
- The map no longer jumps back to the selected ship on every live update while you have panned it somewhere else
v1.1.0 — 2026-10-10
- Push notifications via ntfy.sh have been removed. Notifications now go out exclusively via Discord, as soon as a ship with a confirmed destination sets course for Germany. The event also still appears in the public JSON API and the RSS feed
- The Discord link now comes before the API link in the footer
v1.0.6 — 2026-09-26
- A ship already anchored or moored at its German destination now shows as "arrived" instead of still "heading to Germany"
v1.0.5 — 2026-09-24
- A reported destination with a space between the country and location code (e.g. "DE WVN" for Wilhelmshaven) wasn't recognized as a German destination — at least one real case went unnoticed as a result. Fixed
v1.0.4 — 2026-09-23
- Technical maintenance: a more robust connection to the live data source, so stale positions are detected and recovered from automatically, faster
v1.0.3 — 2026-09-18
- The disclaimer box was accidentally showing twice on the homepage — now it only appears once, in the footer
v1.0.2 — 2026-09-18
- Fleet list: destination and time now sit on their own line under the ship name instead of sharing one — long destination names used to get cut off there
- Fleet list: a reported destination now carries a small "Destination" label so it's clear what it is
v1.0.1 — 2026-09-18
- The homepage now answers the actual question right at the top: is a ship heading to Germany right now — and if not, when one last was
- The map is much larger now, with the remaining ships as a compact, neatly aligned list beside it instead of eight equally sized tiles below
- Red is now reserved exclusively for that one signal — links, buttons and selection highlights are blue or neutral instead
- Selecting a ship now scrolls the map to the center of the screen instead of flush under the header
v0.6.2 — 2026-09-17
- The page now updates itself in the background instead of doing a full reload — your map view and selected ship stay as they were
- While the page is open, new positions now arrive on their own about once a minute
v0.6.1 — 2026-09-17
- The page now reloads itself when you bring it back to the foreground after a while — previously a long-open tab (especially on mobile) kept showing arbitrarily old positions until you reloaded by hand
v0.5.4 — 2026-09-17
- iPhone/iPad: ships were all incorrectly shown as "outdated" there and the timestamps were missing — regardless of how fresh the data actually was. Fixed; Safari could not read the AIS data's time format
v0.5.3 — 2026-09-17
- Technical maintenance: internal security and stability improvements — nothing changes visibly on the site itself
v0.5.2 — 2026-09-17
- Mobile view: the header and footer overflowed the screen edge on narrow phones, now wrap correctly
- Accessibility: a skip-to-content link, a visible focus ring for keyboard use, and ships on the map are now also selectable via keyboard
v0.5.1 — 2026-09-14
- Discord as a second, optional notification channel: on a confirmed destination heading to Germany, a bot now also posts to our Discord server, alongside the ntfy push
- New "Join Discord" link in the footer for anyone interested in the community server
v0.4.1 — 2026-09-02
- Logo and branding: new favicon, header logo, and a preview image for shared links (Open Graph)
- The site is now bilingual: German (default) and English via a language switcher in the header
- The live-status dot in the status bar now shows an actual traffic light (green/amber/red) instead of the previous colors
v0.3.0 — 2026-08-26
- Track: a ship's most recently sailed route is now shown on the map
- Heading arrow on the selected ship; plus a line to its German destination port, when one is reported
- Map centers on a ship when you click it
- New "Moving towards Germany" hint — estimated from actual movement, even while the reported destination is still stale
v0.2.1 — 2026-08-26
- Clicking a ship now scrolls cleanly to the map, without disappearing behind the header
- Changelog closes on outside click or Escape
- Clearer status wording in the footer bar ("Receiving live data" instead of "Worker: Live")
v0.2.0 — 2026-08-26
- Two-tier notifications: an "early" tier (first, unconfirmed Germany signal) in addition to "confirmed"
- Push subscription as a collapsible box with a tier picker, instead of two fixed blocks
- New footer bar with live status, version number, and changelog
v0.1.0 — 2026-08-25
- First launch: live dashboard of the BYD fleet via AIS with an interactive map
- Dark, nautical-chart-style design, click-to-select ships
- Public JSON API for your own automations
