Ask your AI assistant about your own receiver
Earlier today we opened a public MCP server, so Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other assistants can ask Skydex about aircraft, ships, airports and receivers (the announcement). If you run a receiver for Skydex, your assistant can now look at your own stations too.
Two tools for your stations
my_stations lists your receivers with what the network knows about each: whether it is sending right now, messages and positions a second on ADS-B, today's figures, the last 30 days (aircraft, positions, uptime, streak, range), its Signal and place on the leaderboard, and the MLAT state.
diagnose_station looks at one station and says what is wrong and what to try. The answers come from failures we have taken apart with feeders over the last months:
- a station that never sent anything usually needs the connector line, and in ultrafeeder that line has to end with
;; - a station that stopped while the receiver still looks fine is most often an SDR dongle that dropped off USB, which only a reboot brings back;
- a connection that is up with no messages points at the antenna or the dongle;
- messages without positions mean the receiver hears transponders it cannot place;
- long gaps in uptime, a missing location and MLAT out of sync get their own notes.
When our own ingest is the problem, it says that instead of sending you to check hardware that works.
The token
These tools, and the one in the next section, need a personal token. Sign in on the setup page, give the token a name and copy it: it is shown once. Clients that take only an address, such as claude.ai and ChatGPT, use https://skydex.online/api/mcp?key=<token>. Claude Code and Cursor can send it as a header instead.
The token reads your stations and, for the question below, the home city from your profile. It reads nothing else: no messages, no other account settings. The station key (the uuid in your connector line) is never handed out. Every new token rings your bell, so one you did not make will not go unnoticed, and you can revoke any of them on the same page. You can hold up to five.
What is above me
A third tool, above_me, answers "what is flying over me right now" without you giving coordinates. It looks over the home city you set in your Skydex profile, or over your antenna when you ask "above my station", and lists the aircraft nearest first with how far away and in which direction they are, their altitude and whether they are climbing. The home city is a city, so the answer is about the city around its centre, not your street. If no home city is set, it uses a station with a location or tells the assistant to ask you for a place. Away from home, tell the assistant where you are ("what's over Barcelona airport") and it asks about that place instead.
Ask something like "check my Skydex receivers" or "what's flying over me" and the assistant picks the tools on its own. If an answer is wrong or misses a problem you had, write to [email protected] with the station name; the next diagnosis rules come from those reports. More about running a receiver for Skydex is on the feeder page.