EDAM

EDAM puts EDLD on your Android phone or tablet. Pair it once with EDLD on the computer you play on, and your commander, ship, cargo, route, alerts, session and career are a glance away: on the desk beside your keyboard, propped against the monitor, or in your hand across the room.

It is made for glancing at: open it, see where things stand, put it down. And when you want to do more than look, it can plot a route, honk the discovery scanner, or lower the landing gear for you.

Highlights

• Every window EDLD draws, on your phone: the same tabs, tables and colors, from the same data.
• EDCARS on a tablet, drawn to the same layout as the desktop console, in any of its four consoles: EDCARS, ORDER, REBEL or ROGUE.
• The Helm panel in your hand: honk, plot the next stop, and press the game’s own controls, grouped as flight, ship, combat, power and panels.
• Plot routes from the phone: FSD, neutron, carrier and survey routes, planned by EDLD and followed on your computer.
• Your mining finds: ring hotspots and surface sites in filterable tables, in a Mining section of their own.
• Private by design: a direct, encrypted connection to your own computer. No account, no cloud service, nothing in between.

EDCARS, in your hand

On a tablet, or a phone in landscape, EDAM draws EDLD’s EDCARS console the way the desktop does: the same header band, the same rail of sections, and the same framed windows in the same columns, with every tab in the desktop’s order. In portrait, one section fills the screen and a swipe moves to the next, with the section pills along the bottom.

Prefer a list? The Dashboard style is a drawer of pages: Overview, Helm, Session, Career, Alerts, Commander, Crew, Ship, Colonization, Exploration, Mining, Missions and Navigation. It shows one column in portrait and an adaptive grid in landscape. You can also use EDCARS in landscape and the Dashboard in portrait.

Four consoles

EDLD’s EDCARS comes in four consoles, and EDAM draws every one of them, on a tablet or in landscape to the same measurements as the desktop:

• EDCARS: the band and the elbow, with rounded pills down the rail
• ORDER: an Imperial fleet console of steel pills, indicator lights and windows behind chamfered black glass
• REBEL: a Rebel ops board of cream consoles, round lamps and screens in bezels under label plates
• ROGUE: an independent freighter’s cockpit of riveted plate, an amber CRT, masking-tape labels and toggle switches

In portrait the layout is EDCARS’s own, in the console’s paint and faces. Settings → Console follows the console EDLD wears, or picks one for the device, so your tablet can match your desktop or be a different cockpit entirely.

Because every window is described once by EDLD and drawn by each device, a window EDLD adds or improves reaches EDAM without an app update.

The Helm panel

Turn on Allow paired devices to press keys in EDLD, and EDAM gets EDLD’s Helm panel: a section of EDCARS, and a page of the Dashboard. Its buttons press the game’s keys on your computer for you:

• Automation: Honk the discovery scanner, or plot the galaxy map to the next stop of your route
• Flight: supercruise, jump, target the next system, boost, flight assist
• Ship: landing gear, cargo scoop, lights, night vision
• Combat: hardpoints, heat sink, chaff, shield cell, silent running
• Power: a pip to systems, engines or weapons, or reset them
• Panels: the galaxy and system maps, the FSS, and HUD mode

The groups fill as much of the screen as it has, side by side on a tablet and stacked on a phone. EDAM is only sent the controls you have bound in the game, and if one can’t be pressed right now, it tells you why.

More than a monitor

Navigation. The FSD, Neutron, Carrier, Survey, Nearby, Services and Discoveries forms are all on the phone. EDAM sends what you enter, EDLD plots it, and the route becomes the one EDLD follows on your computer.

Window buttons. Follow, Copy Next and Clear Route under Route; Set Target and Galactic Average under Cargo. Tap the Home System row under Info to set it, or a colonization site’s Stop tracking row to clear it. Copy Next puts the next system on your computer’s clipboard, ready for the galaxy map.

End the session. In Solo, with EDLD’s permission, EDAM can end the game session from Settings, after you confirm.

Alerts you will notice

An urgent alert, such as hull damage, shields down or a fighter lost, flashes the Alerts pill for ten seconds, then holds it red until you open Alerts. Set EDLD to switch on alerts, and EDAM brings the Alerts section up for you.

Your theme, everywhere

EDAM follows the color theme, style and console your EDLD is using, custom themes included, so your phone matches your desktop. You can also pick any of EDLD’s twelve built-in themes, or any console, directly. Any theme suits any console.

Private and secure by design

• Paired, not signed in. Scan the QR code from EDLD’s Options → Server, or from edld --pair. There is no account to create.
• Direct and encrypted. Your game data travels between your EDLD and your phone and nowhere else, over TLS 1.3, with both ends’ keys pinned. Your phone’s key is created in the Android keystore and never leaves the device.
• Only while you look. EDAM connects when it comes to the screen and lets go thirty seconds after it leaves. No background service, no notifications, no location, contacts or camera permission, and it never scans your network.
• Honest when offline. The last snapshot is shown dimmed, with one clear status: Live, Reconnecting, EDLD unreachable (and when it was last seen), game not running, or no longer paired.

Requirements

Getting started

1. Install EDLD on the computer you play on.
2. In EDLD, open Options → Server, turn it on, and choose Show pairing code.
3. Install EDAM from Google Play, tap Scan QR code, and point your phone at the code. You can also paste the pairing link instead.

That’s it. EDAM remembers the pairing and reconnects whenever you open it.

Questions

Do I need EDLD?

Yes. EDAM shows what EDLD sees; it does not read the game on its own. EDLD is free and runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Can I use it away from home?

Yes, if EDLD can be reached from outside your network. EDLD can ask your router to forward the port and keep a DuckDNS name up to date; the server mode guide walks through it.

Will it drain my battery?

No. EDAM is only connected while it is on screen, and it runs nothing in the background. On a charger it keeps the screen on while it is open, so a tablet beside your keyboard stays live.

Is it free?

Yes. EDAM shows a banner ad along the bottom of the screen. A one-time purchase in Settings removes it for good, on every device signed in to the same Google account; Restore purchase beside it picks up a purchase made on another device. See the privacy policy for how ads are served.

My phone can’t connect

On the same network, the cause is almost always the computer’s firewall. EDLD detects the common Linux firewalls and shows the command that opens the port, and EDAM lists every address it tried and why each one failed.

Where can I get help?

Join the Indevlin Discord for help, release news and a say in what comes next, or email us.

Elite Dangerous is a trademark of Frontier Developments plc. EDAM is an independent product of Indevlin, LLC, and is not affiliated with or supported by Frontier Developments plc.