[general]
name=AIS Watchkeeper
qgisMinimumVersion=3.22
qgisMaximumVersion=4.99
description=Receive, decode and plot live AIS vessel traffic from serial or TCP sources, with guard-zone alarms and coverage mapping.
about=AIS Watchkeeper turns QGIS into a live maritime traffic console. It
    connects to an AIS receiver over USB/serial or a raw TCP stream, decodes
    !AIVDM/!AIVDO sentences, and plots vessels live on the map.
    What it does: live data, guard functions, route monitoring,
    coverage monitoring, vessel information, and a history recorder.
    Create your own routes and route points for route monitoring with the
    native QGIS digitising tools. Europe's waterways are available through a
    built-in WFS service.
    Issues or feature requests:
    contact-project+foss4maritime-aiswatchkeeper-84121396-issue-@incoming.gitlab.com
    Requires pyserial and pyais (bundled).
version=0.48.0
changelog=0.48.0 - GNSS own position, resizable when undocked, and a lighter render.
    Set your receiver position from the GPS device connected in QGIS (or a combined
    receiver's GNSS on the AIS feed) - read once, never tracked - or pick it on the
    map as before. The panel is now freely resizable, with maximise/minimise buttons,
    when floated out of the dock, and scrolls vertically on a short screen. Performance pass for weaker machines: a start-up render
    benchmark picks a display profile, cheap dots replace the ship symbols when zoomed
    out, trails and labels are throttled, and a live render watch eases the profile if
    a machine is struggling under load. The in-app manual (the ? button) now opens as
    a searchable HTML page in your browser instead of a PDF.
    0.47.0 - Day/dusk/night display, unit systems, and the bind-width corridor.
    A "chart light" selector (Day / Dusk / Night) dims the map background, the
    basemap and the QGIS colour theme together for twilight and night watches, and
    re-tints the labels, the rate graph and the route-leg strip. A "units" selector
    switches every readout between Nautical, Metric and Imperial - knots / km-h /
    mph, nautical miles (cables) / km / statute miles, metres / feet, along-route
    distances, and positions in degrees + decimal minutes. A new "Route bind-width"
    map layer draws each fairway's binding corridor as two thin dashed lines you can
    see and tune from the Routes tab. Both display selectors live in the Settings
    box and are remembered between sessions.
    The full changelog is found in the user manual.
author=Captain Ahab & Cosmo
email=fabian@maraton.consulting
license=GPL-3.0-or-later

# Qt6 / QGIS 4 compatibility: version-neutral qgis.PyQt imports + an enum-promotion
# shim (ais_qt_compat) applied in classFactory. qgisMaximumVersion=4.99 marks this
# plugin QGIS 4 ready; the old supportsQt6 flag is deprecated and no longer used.

tracker=https://gitlab.com/foss4maritime/aiswatchkeeper
repository=https://gitlab.com/foss4maritime/aiswatchkeeper
homepage=https://gitlab.com/foss4maritime/aiswatchkeeper
tags=ais,nmea,vessel,maritime,ship,marine,realtime,serial,tcp,navigation

category=Plugins
icon=icon.png
experimental=False
deprecated=False
hasProcessingProvider=no
