Plugins
Extend Hydris with capabilities from the open-source catalog, your own registry, or partner-delivered plugins
Plugins are capabilities you switch on per node—feeds that enrich the picture, logic that tasks your assets, integrations for extra sensors. There's nothing to install by hand: browse, enable, and configure everything from the UI, and your plugin selection travels with your mission pack.
Managing Plugins
Press Ctrl+K (or ⌘+K on macOS) and select Manage plugins. This opens the configuration tree focused on your plugins, where each plugin has an enabled toggle and its own settings.
The built-in catalog covers a range of capabilities, for example:
- Enrichment feeds — HexDB adds aircraft photos and registration to ADS-B tracks, and ADS-B DB adds registration, owner, type, and country from a bundled offline database; Open-Meteo brings in weather and air quality; NINA surfaces German emergency warnings; Blitzortung shows live lightning strikes.
- Asset logic — Autocue automatically slews PTZ cameras to follow tracked entities.
- Sensors — Airthings integrates BLE air-quality monitors.
Enable what the mission needs and leave the rest off—each node runs only the plugins you've switched on.
Where Plugins Come From
- Open source — the built-in catalog ships with Hydris, and the plugins in it are open source under Apache 2.0. Browse and enable them directly from Manage plugins.
- Your own — run plugins your team builds or vets, without anything leaving your infrastructure. Point Hydris at a single plugin by OCI image reference, host your own plugin feed to act as a private catalog, and store registry credentials so images can be pulled from your private OCI registry.
- Q Partner Program — selected commercial capabilities from our partner network of best-in-class providers, delivered as plugins and co-built for interoperability with your mission systems. Contact us to learn what's available.
Running Your Own Plugins
Under Custom Plugins in the configuration tree you can add:
| Type | What it does | Key settings |
|---|---|---|
| Custom Plugin | Runs a single plugin from an OCI image reference or a local file | Image reference or path, enabled |
| Plugin Feed | Subscribes to a remote plugin index and runs every compatible plugin it lists—your private catalog | Feed URL, optional username and token |
| Registry Credentials | Stores credentials for an OCI registry so private plugin images can be pulled | Registry hostname, username, password |
When a Plugin Feed includes a username and token, Hydris creates the matching Registry Credentials for each registry it pulls from, so you don't have to add those by hand.
Want to build your own? The developer guide walks through writing, building, and publishing a plugin.