Where Guardian is going
What ships is on Features and Pricing — everything on this page is planned, not shipped, and may change as we learn. If something here matters to you, say so on the community forum — it genuinely moves things up the list.
Friends — share the alarms, not the helm
A lighter kind of sharing, alongside crew access: invite friends who get the alerts you choose to offer — and nothing else. No dashboards, no controls; you pick which alerts to offer, they accept and pick which to receive, all in the app. Dockside vehicles get 1 friend with anchor drag, high-water, and location-sharing alerts; Weekender (10 friends), Cruiser (25), and the coming Voyager plan (100) add low battery, shore-power loss, temperature, security zone, and presence alarms. The dock neighbor hears the drag alarm; your marina password stays yours.
Location sharing
Share your vessel’s position with the people you pick — family following a passage, a partner meeting you at the ramp — on every plan, including Dockside. Friends who accept get position updates and a live where-is-she-now view. A public option, where anyone can look up where you are, is planned for the coming Voyager plan.
The Voyager plan
A new top plan for the long haul — $10/mo · $100/yr. Voice-call alerts for the alarms that must not be missed, every integration (Home Assistant, MQTT, IFTTT, and the API), up to 8 cameras, 100 friends, public location sharing, and voyage history: your tracks and passages kept as data you can revisit and export. Ships when its features do — nothing here is buyable yet.
Turn things on and off from anywhere
A fan on the ride back so the boat is cool when you step aboard. Lights on before you reach a dark dock. Guardian is adding switch modules — the same off-the-shelf Shelly family, including 12 V-friendly relays — so anything you can put on a relay can be flipped from the app, at the dock or three states away. Part of the paid plans, like all control.
The Guardian hub
A small always-on box (a Raspberry Pi, a Docker container, or the desktop app itself) that sits between your sensors and the internet. Sensors report to the hub on the boat’s network; the hub batches everything to the cloud over whatever uplink you have — and your vessel keeps reporting even on a locked-down or metered connection. The same role built into a Guardian-managed cellular router is in testing now.
Long-range sensors & shared marina hubs
LoRa sensors (YoLink) reach a quarter mile through a marina — which means one hub at the dock office can serve every boat on the pier. Shared hub infrastructure would make whole-marina coverage cheap per boat, with dedicated hubs for boats that want their own.
For marinas, mechanics & boat managers
Service accounts for the businesses that look after other people’s boats: a marina, a mobile mechanic, or a management company gets one account, owners grant it access, and staff see every boat in their care — without sharing anyone’s password. Site operators install the shared hub; subscriptions can be member-paid or pooled. Running a marina or large site? Get in touch.
An open hub platform
The hosted cloud stays ours to run — but the hub is going open: public code, a plugin architecture, and APIs, so the community can add device drivers and integrations we’d never get to alone. Home Assistant, MQTT, and IFTTT integrations ride this same effort, along with cloud automation (timers, schedules, rules) and voice-call alerts.
Native iOS app
Guardian is on Google Play today (and the web app works on iPhone and iPad). A native iOS app is actively in progress.
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