Setting it up

1. Run the daemon

Unzip the daemon somewhere permanent. It keeps its settings beside the launcher, so a folder inside Downloads is a bad home for it — somewhere like C:\Tools\EveDeck Intel is fine.

Run EveDeck Intel.exe. Windows SmartScreen will interrupt the first launch: choose More info, then Run anyway. The daemon settles into the system tray — on Windows 11 that means the overflow flyout behind the ^ at the end of the taskbar, and you can drag it out to keep it visible.

Windows also asks once whether to allow it through the firewall. Allow it for private networks. Without that the tablet cannot reach it, and the symptom is a tablet that simply never connects.

2. Pick your channels and regions

The first run opens the settings window. Right-clicking the tray icon and choosing Settings gets you back to it any time.

• Chat logs is found for you, including the OneDrive-redirected Documents folder. Only change it if your logs live somewhere unusual.
• Intel channels lists every channel EVE has written a log for. Tick the ones you want read. If the list is empty or missing a channel, join it in game and wait for a line to appear — EVE only creates the file once there is something to put in it.
• Scope regions is the setting most worth getting right. People abbreviate system names, and a three-character stub only has one answer if the daemon knows which regions the channel is watching. Pick them from the list; the box above it filters.

Local is always read whether or not it appears in your selection, because it is how the daemon knows where your characters are. Nothing is read from a channel you have not ticked.

Press Save. Channel selection takes effect immediately; the port, the log folder and the regions apply when the daemon restarts, and the window tells you which of the two just happened.

3. Copy the tablet URL

Press Copy URL in the settings window, or use Copy tablet URL in the tray menu. It looks like ws://192.168.1.50:31337/intel.

If several addresses are shown, your PC has more than one network interface — a VPN, or a virtual machine adapter. The one to use is the one on the same network as the tablet, which is almost always the 192.168.x.x address matching your router.

4. Install the app

Download the APK on the tablet itself and open it. Android asks once whether to allow installs from your browser; allow it, then install. Open the app, go to its settings, paste the address from step 3, and choose a character to follow.

The character you follow is what jump distances are measured from, so pick whichever one is actually out there.

If nothing appears

The tray menu has an Open log item, and it answers most of it. The two usual causes are a chat logs folder that is not the one EVE is writing to, and no channels ticked.

• The tablet will not connect. Both devices have to be on the same network, and the firewall rule has to exist. If you dismissed that prompt, allow EveDeck Intel for private networks in Windows Defender Firewall.
• Systems are resolving to the wrong place. Your scope regions are wrong or too broad. Narrow them to what the channel actually covers.
• Reports are showing up unparsed. Alliances have their own shorthand. The daemon can replay your own channel history and print what it failed to classify — see the repository for --validate, which is how the vocabulary gets tuned.

A word on the network

The connection between the daemon and the tablet has no password and no encryption. That is deliberate for a LAN service carrying information that everyone in the channel can already see, and it keeps the setup down to typing one address.

Do not forward its port through your router. If you want it from outside the house, put the PC and the tablet on the same Tailscale tailnet and use that address instead — same one line of setup, without exposing anything to the internet.

Not downloaded it yet? Both halves are on the download page.