Recharge Monitor

A portal watchlist, health monitor, and decay predictor for IITC on Niantic's Ingress Intel Map.

Recharge Monitor helps agents track watched portals across different regions, estimate decay timing when portals are out of view, and recover missing deployment history from local COMM and activity records.

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Who This Plugin Is For

This plugin is ideal for agents who defend multiple portals, maintain anchor networks, or want early warning before important portals decay out. It is especially useful when your monitored portals are spread across areas you are not actively viewing.

Key Features

Watchlist dashboard: Add portals from the details pane and manage them from one central monitor.
Bookmark-style groups: Organize large watchlists into collapsible groups, rename groups, move portals between them, and spot risky groups instantly when the group name turns red.
Portal health tracking: Review current energy, last-seen status, and deployment timing signals for watched portals.
Decay prediction: Estimate when an out-of-view portal will neutralize based on the standard 15% daily decay pattern.
History recovery: Recover deploy timing from COMM backfill and from Player Activity Log integration.
Recharge alerts: Show warning counts in the toolbox when watched portals fall below the health threshold.
Cleaner watchlist layout: The watchlist dialog is wider and keeps Deploy Time and Est. Decay on a single line for easier scanning.
Map highlighter: Adds a Recharge Monitor highlighter where watched red-zone portals show in red, watched healthy portals keep their original look, and unwatched portals use a muted gray-purple tone.

History Sync and Time Recovery

Recharge Monitor becomes much more accurate when it can recover the original deployment time of a portal. To do that, it supports two local history sources.

COMM backfilling: Scans IITC's local chat cache for relevant capture and deploy events.
Player Activity Log integration: Reads compatible activity history using GUID and coordinate matching.

Because the plugin works from local records, the estimated decay value is only as complete as the local history your client has already seen and stored.

How to Use Recharge Monitor

Select a portal and use the details pane to add it to the watchlist.
Open the main dashboard from the Recharge Mon toolbox button.
Create groups when your watchlist gets large, then move portals into the right sections for anchors, farms, or regional defense targets.
Use Sync History when you want to improve deployment-time accuracy from local history sources.
Watch for orange or red toolbox warnings when portal energy falls into dangerous territory, and check for red group names to identify which collapsed or expanded group contains the urgent portal.

What's New

Version 0.5.4

Refined the new Recharge Monitor highlighter with a softer gray-purple color for unwatched portals.
Documented the map-highlighting behavior for watched danger portals, watched healthy portals, and unwatched portals.

Version 0.5.3

Added a Recharge Monitor portal highlighter.
Watched portals in the red health zone now highlight red, while watched healthy portals keep their normal map color.

Version 0.5.2

Group names now turn red when any portal in that group drops into the red health zone, even if the group is collapsed.

Version 0.5.1

Widened the watchlist dialog so the layout feels less cramped.
Prevented Deploy Time and Est. Decay from wrapping onto two lines.

Version 0.5.0

Added bookmark-style groups for the recharge watchlist, including create, rename, delete, collapse, and portal move actions.
Removed a browser-incompatible import that could stop the plugin from loading in IITC.

Version 0.4.4

Improved sync feedback with a summary of how many portals were updated.

Version 0.4.3

Added total XM needed to fully recharge all monitored portals.
Added a total daily decay estimate for the current watchlist.
Improved max-XM estimation when only map summary data is available.

Version 0.4.2

Added an About button to the watchlist dialog.
Expanded the built-in documentation for dependency requirements.

Version 0.4.1

Migrated history sync to the asynchronous Player Activity Log API.
Improved cross-plugin sync reliability.

Version 0.3.2

Corrected the UserScript update and download URLs.

Version 0.3.1

Unified terminology to Decay to better match official Ingress wording.
Improved health calculation robustness to reduce accidental data overwrites.

Version 0.3.0

Added real-time COMM monitoring and retroactive history sync.
Added history recovery from Player Activity Log.
Added an Est. Decay column to the watchlist.
Switched time displays to local time format.

Pro tip: Recharge Monitor works especially well with Player Activity Log, because it can automatically pull deployment timing from your activity history when you add a portal to the watchlist.

Important: Time recovery and decay prediction are based on local data sources. If the relevant events were never seen by your client, the estimate may be incomplete.

Reminder: This is a local planning and monitoring tool. It does not create perfect historical truth, and it should not be treated as an authoritative server-side record.

FAQ

Can this predict decay for portals outside my current view? Yes, as long as the plugin has enough local history to estimate the portal's deployment timing and current state.
Why is Player Activity Log recommended? It provides another local data source for capture and deploy timing, which helps Recharge Monitor produce better estimates.
Why can predictions still be wrong? The plugin depends on locally recorded COMM and history data. Missing local events mean missing context.