Self-hosted situational awareness

Your world.
Live on one screen.

ChronAlert turns a Windows or Linux PC into an always-on display for severe weather, radio conditions, space weather, hurricanes, earthquakes, emergency alerts and live ham activity.

US · Canada · UK · AustraliaInstant downloadNo cloud accountNo subscriptionLAN native
ChronAlert live situational-awareness display with NEXRAD radar, lightning and weather alerts
48Live feeds & overlays
24/7Built for unattended viewing
0Cloud accounts required
1 → manyOne PC serves multiple screens

Not a website you keep checking.

ChronAlert is meant to stay on. Saved Panels rotate automatically, live feeds continuously update, and the same installation can be viewed from TVs, tablets, phones, Firesticks and other computers across your local network.

01
ALWAYS ON

Built for the screen across the room

Large, glanceable maps and information cards are designed to stay visible without constant clicking or babysitting.

02
PANELS

Build your own rotation

Create views for weather, ham activity, space weather, local awareness or world events and let ChronAlert cycle them automatically.

03
FEED HEALTH

Know when the data is trustworthy

Every critical source is graded LIVE, STALE or OFFLINE. ChronAlert never quietly presents old data as current.

04
LOCAL FIRST

Runs on your hardware

No ChronAlert cloud backend is required. Public data comes directly to your own computer and your display remains under your control.

05
WATCH ZONES

Watch the places that matter

Your QTH is built in. Pro expands that to multiple Watch Zones for family, repeaters, property, events or other locations.

06
ONE VIEW

Radio + emergency awareness together

POTA, PSK Reporter, NWS alerts, radar, lightning, hurricanes, earthquakes, space weather and national alerts share one display.

See it running.

Real screens from a live ChronAlert, not mockups. Every one is a Panel someone built in a couple of minutes - pick the feeds, pick the view, and ChronAlert keeps it current around the clock.

See every feature →
ChronAlert Pro // Situation Room

When it matters,
the screen reacts.

Situation Room changes ChronAlert from passive display to active awareness. A critical event can interrupt the normal rotation, move the map to the event, force the right layers on, correlate related feeds, and return to normal when the incident clears.

Local severe weatherAutomatic takeover
Major hurricane / earthquakeEvent fusion
X-class flare / HF blackoutContext aware
Geomagnetic storm / national alertPrioritized
Unlock ChronAlert Pro · $39.99
ChronAlert Situation Room hurricane incident with a how-this-developed timeline
SITUATION ROOM // INCIDENTFacts, distance to your zone and a live timeline
ChronAlert APRS: 114 APRS-IS stations across the Southeast plus the local APRS RF card
APRS // RF + APRS-ISInternet and over-the-air stations on one map
ChronAlert Pro // APRS

APRS from the internet
and from your own radio.

ChronAlert shows APRS two ways: every station around you from the APRS-IS network, and the stations your own RTL-SDR hears over the air through direwolf. Both land on the same map with standard APRS symbols and trails.

Stations over the air from your RTL-SDRAPRS RF
Every station around you from the internetAPRS-IS
Two-way APRS messagingCommand Center
Watch a callsign until it shows upMonitor / Follow

Standard APRS station symbols with trails, a filter for which station types you see, ChronAlert starting and stopping your decoder for you, and APRS messages on their own card - all on the same wall as your weather, alerts and HF conditions.

Everything APRS does →
Free + Pro // Mobile

Your whole wall,
in your pocket.

Open ChronAlert in your phone's browser and it switches to a phone layout on its own. The map fills the screen, the controls tuck into a menu, and your cards slide up with one tap on CARDS. Drag and pinch to move around, upright or sideways. No app to install and nothing to set up.

Anywhere on your home networkBuilt in
Scan the QR code to open itNo typing
Away from homeWireGuard / Tailscale

ChronAlert runs on your own computer and serves your local network, so your phone sees it whenever it is on your Wi-Fi. Want it on the road too? Put your phone on your home network with a VPN such as WireGuard or Tailscale and it works exactly the same, with no ChronAlert cloud in between. Use a VPN rather than opening ChronAlert to the internet.

ChronAlert on a phone: World view with shortwave broadcasts, tropical storms and satellites
World
ChronAlert on a phone: National view with APRS stations, radar and lightning
National
ChronAlert on a phone: State view with live aircraft and radar
State
Simple licensing

Start free. Unlock the intelligence.

Free is a useful always-on display. Pro adds the automation, deeper personalization and multi-screen control that make ChronAlert a true situation room.

ChronAlert Free

$0

No key. No account.
  • 2 saved Panels
  • 1 Watch Zone
  • World, National, Regional and Local views
  • All core live feeds
  • News ticker (2 sources)
  • Feed Health + stale/offline status
  • LAN viewing
Download Free
PRO
ChronAlert Pro

$39.99

Lifetime License
  • 10 saved Panels
  • 10 Watch Zones
  • Automatic Situation Room takeover
  • Event Fusion + contextual escalation
  • Incident timeline
  • Different content on different screens
  • Command Center
  • QSO Map (logger arcs)
  • Meshtastic + MeshCore radios
  • APRS RF + APRS-IS + two-way APRS messaging
  • Unlimited news / sports / market sources
Buy ChronAlert Pro