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Run your own live world-watch dashboard

The preview clip shows what you'll have running in 20 minutes. Crucix pulls flights, markets, satellites, radio receivers and world news from public feeds into one map on your own PC, with no account and no API keys, and refreshes itself every 15 minutes. Then add a free NASA key to light up the fire map, and get alerts on your phone through Telegram.

31 minBeginnerTools: FreeStep 1 free
Tested 7 Oct 2026 · Crucix 2.0.0 (commit 3db7068), Node 26.7, no API keys, Windows 11
Crucix running on your own machine, with a live map, market prices and a news feed on one screen
A one-line fix for a bug that makes a fresh install show old data from April
A clear map of what lights up with no keys at all, and which free keys switch on the rest
  • Live satellite fire detection from a free NASA key
  • Breaking-news alerts and a /brief command on your phone, through your own Telegram bot
Before you start
  • Level 0 done: Git and Node.js installed (Crucix needs Node 22 or newer)
  • About 35MB of free disk space
  • No account and no API keys for steps 1 to 5. Steps 6 and 7 add a free NASA key and a free Telegram bot, both optional.
● What you'll have in 31 minutes
Preview
Crucix on live public data with no API keys: world view, zooming into Europe and the Middle East, then Globe mode.
01/07Download Crucix and its one dependency0 done
STEP 01 of 07~3 min

Download Crucix and its one dependency

Crucix is a small Node.js app. Two commands and it's on your PC.

  1. Check you have Node 22 or newer:

    Terminal
    node --version
    Output
    v26.7.0

  2. Then download Crucix into your Downloads folder and install what it needs:

    Windows (PowerShell)
    cd $HOME\Downloads
git clone https://github.com/calesthio/Crucix.git crucix
cd crucix
npm install
    Mac / Linux
    cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/calesthio/Crucix.git crucix
cd crucix
npm install
    Output
    Cloning into 'crucix'...
...
added 90 packages, and audited 91 packages in 19s

29 packages are looking for funding
...
7 vulnerabilities (1 low, 1 moderate, 4 high, 1 critical)

  3. npm install takes under half a minute on a normal connection. The whole folder is about 33MB.

    TipThe "7 vulnerabilities" line is npm warning about the web-server libraries Crucix uses. It runs on your own PC, so it's not an emergency. Don't run npm audit fix --force: it can upgrade things to versions Crucix wasn't built for.
✓
CheckpointYou're inside the crucix folder and npm install finished with "added 90 packages".
If it breaks'git' or 'npm' is not recognised + 1 more
'git' or 'npm' is not recognised
Git or Node isn't installed, or this terminal was opened before you installed them. Go back to Level 0, then open a new terminal.
Your Node version starts with 18 or 20
Crucix needs Node 22 or newer. Install the current LTS version from nodejs.org ↗, then open a new terminal.
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