SILVER.INTELLIGENCE CARTOGRAPH OVERLAY

A Python tool that watches your Frontier chat logs for system location changes and broadcasts the current location over a WebSocket server in real time.

---

Features

Chat log Reader:

• Monitors the latest Local_*.txt chat log file (Windows: "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Frontier\logs\Chatlogs")
• Detects when the player changes local system channels.
• Automatically detects log file encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16-BE, UTF-8-SIG).

Websocket (Server):

• Broadcasts the current system name and system ID to connected WebSocket clients (e.g. https://www.silver-tribe.com/cartograph)
• Websocket server runs via ws://localhost:9001

Webviewer Overlay:

• Simple Webviewer Overlay (Mini-Browser)
• Default-URL: https://www.silver-tribe.com/cartograph*
• Default-Settings: width=480, height=710, frameless=False, on_top=True

*Note: Websocket Server <> Client communication runs locally within the browser (Python <> JavaScript).

---

Option 1: Run the executable

Download the latest si-cartograph.exe from the Releases page.

Option 2: Run from source

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/YourUsername/si-cartograph.git
cd si-cartograph

2. Create a virtual environment and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/YourUsername/si-cartograph.git
cd si-cartograph

3. Create a virtual environment and install dependencies:

python -m venv .venv
.venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the launcher:

python launcher.py

Experimental Mode (manual shutdown):

python launcher.py -frameless

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• Windows (or modify the chatlog path manually)
• websockets
• pywebview