EDMarketConnector/README.md

2020-06-16 21:00 UTC

Due to a lack of time to continue with maintenance at this point Marginal (also known as Otis on the Discord) has kindly transferred ownership of this github repository to the EDCD Organisation.

EDCD has some volunteers ready to take over maintenance, so over the next few days you can expect at least one fresh release to get things fully transferred (necessary to change the URL that EDMC uses to check for new versions). After that we'll work hard at getting all of the Pull Requests addressed before moving on to any other outstanding Issues.

Initially Athanasius will be the principle maintainer and releaser before passing the reins over to "LCU No Fool Like One" who has kindly agreed to take over as primary maintainer.

Any questions or further offers of help can be directed to the Discord #edmc channel as below.

Elite: Dangerous Market Connector (EDMC)

This app downloads your Cmdr's details and system, faction, scan and station data from the game Elite: Dangerous and, at your choice, either:

• sends station commodity market prices, other station data, system and faction information and body scan data to the Elite Dangerous Data Network (“EDDN”) from where you and others can use it via online trading, prospecting and shopping tools such as eddb, EDSM, Elite Trade Net, Inara, Roguey's, Trade Dangerous, etc.
• sends your Cmdr's details, ship details, cargo, materials and flight log to Elite Dangerous Star Map (“EDSM”).
• sends your Cmdr's details, ship details, cargo, materials, missions, community goal progress, and flight log to Inara.
• saves station commodity market prices to files on your computer that you can load into trading tools such as Trade Dangerous or mEDI's Elite Tools.
• saves a record of your ship loadout to files on your computer that you can load into outfitting tools such as E:D Shipyard, Coriolis or Elite Trade Net.

You can run the app on the same PC or Mac on which you're running Elite: Dangerous or on another PC connected via a network share. PS4 and Xbox are not supported, sorry.

Usage

The user-interface is deliberately minimal - your choice of data is automatically downloaded, transmitted and/or saved when you start Elite: Dangerous, land at a station, jump to a system or scan a body. Start the app before entering the game to ensure that you don't miss any data - some data is only available at game start.

Click on the ship name to view its loadout on E:D Shipyard (“EDSY”) or Coriolis in your web browser.

Click on the system name to view its entry in Elite: Dangerous Database (“eddb”), Elite Dangerous Star Map (“EDSM”) or Inara in your web browser.

Click on the station name to view its entry in eddb, EDSM or Inara in your web browser.

 

 

Installation

Please see the Installation & Setup wiki page.

Uninstall

Windows:

• Uninstall Elite Dangerous Market Connector from Windows Settings (WinKey+i) → Apps → Apps & Features

Note: Uninstalling the app does not delete any output files that it has previously written.

Plugins

Plugins extend the behaviour of this app. To install a downloaded plugin:

• On the Plugins settings tab press the “Open” button. This reveals the plugins folder where this app looks for plugins.
• Open the .zip archive that you downloaded and move the folder contained inside into the plugins folder.

You will need to re-start EDMC for it to notice the new plugin.

The plugins folder is located at:

• Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\EDMarketConnector\plugins (usually C:\Users\you\AppData\Local\EDMarketConnector\plugins).
• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/EDMarketConnector/plugins (in Finder hold ⌥ and choose Go → Library to open your ~/Library folder).
• Linux: $XDG_DATA_HOME/EDMarketConnector/plugins, or ~/.local/share/EDMarketConnector/plugins if $XDG_DATA_HOME is unset.

Refer to PLUGINS.md if you would like to write a plugin.

Troubleshooting

Please see the Troubleshooting wiki page.

Update Error!

The GitHub server that hosts this app's updates only supports TLS 1.2 and higher. Follow these instructions to change your Windows settings to disable the deprecated SSL 2.0 and 3.0 protocols and enable TLS 1.2.

Location of configuration files

If your configuration has been corrupted, or badly set, such that you can't run the program to fix it, or you otherwise need to directly access the configuration then these are the locations of the configuration:

• Mac: You can use the 'defaults' command to interact with the stored settings, i.e.

  defaults read uk.org.marginal.edmarketconnector

  to show the current settings and appropriate 'write' commands to change them.

• Windows: Configuration is stored in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Marginal\EDMarketConnector . There are also some non-configuration files at %LOCALAPPDATA%\EDMarketConnector\ in your user profile.

• Linux: Configuration is stored in the file ${HOME}/.config/EDMarketConnector/EDMarketConnector.ini

Installing on a different drive

• In Control Panel uninstall "Elite Dangerous Market Connector".

• At a Command Prompt type:

  msiexec /i "X:\path\to\EDMarketConnector_win_NNN.msi" INSTALLDIR="Y:\destination\EDMarketConnector"

Future updates will also be installed to this location.

PS4 and Xbox support

This app doesn't work with PS4 or Xbox Elite: Dangerous accounts. On these platforms the game lacks support for the API and Journal files that this app relies on.

Reporting a problem

Please report a problem as a new GitHub issue. Please wait for the error to occur and zip up and attach this app's log file to the new issue:

Mac:

• $TMPDIR/EDMarketConnector.log

Windows:

• %TMP%\EDMarketConnector.log

Running from source

Download and extract the latest source code (or fork and clone if you're comfortable with using git).

Mac:

• Requires Python3.7 and the Python “keyring”, “pyobjc”, “requests” and “watchdog” modules - install these with pip3.7 install keyring pyobjc requests watchdog .
• Run with ./EDMarketConnector.py .

Windows:

• Requires Python3.7 and the Python “keyring”, “requests” and “watchdog” modules - install these with pip3.7 install keyring requests watchdog
• Run with "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python37-32\python.exe" EDMarketConnector.py .

Linux:

• Requires Python3.6 or later and the Python “requests” and "tkinter" modules.
  • On Debian-based systems install these with sudo apt-get install python3-requests python3-tk .
  • On Arch, install these with sudo pacman -S python python-requests tk .
• Run with ./EDMarketConnector.py .

Command-line

The command-line program EDMC.py writes the current system and station (if docked) to stdout and optionally writes player status, ship locations, ship loadout and/or station data to file. This program requires that the user has performed setup and verification through the app.

Arguments:

 -h, --help     show this help message and exit
 -v, --version  print program version and exit
 -a FILE        write ship loadout to FILE in Companion API json format
 -e FILE        write ship loadout to FILE in E:D Shipyard plain text format
 -l FILE        write ship locations to FILE in CSV format
 -m FILE        write station commodity market data to FILE in CSV format
 -o FILE        write station outfitting data to FILE in CSV format
 -s FILE        write station shipyard data to FILE in CSV format
 -t FILE        write player status to FILE in CSV format
 -d FILE        write raw JSON data to FILE
 -n             send data to EDDN
 -p CMDR        Returns data from the specified player account

The program returns one of the following exit codes. Further information may be written to stderr.

0. Success. Note that this doesn't necessarily mean that any requested output files have been produced - for example if the current station doesn't support the facilities for which data was requested.
1. Server is down.
2. Invalid Credentials.
3. Verification Required.
4. Server is lagging.
5. I/O or other OS error.

Packaging for distribution

Mac:

NB: Untested since 3.43

• requires py2app 0.19 or later
• Sparkle.framework installed in /Library/Frameworks
• Run setup.py py2app

Windows:

• requires py2exe 0.9.3.2 or later
• winsparkle.dll & .pdb from WinSparkle copied to the current directory
• WiX Toolset
• Run setup.py py2exe

Disclaimer

This app uses the “Companion” web API that Frontier originally supplied for their Elite Dangerous iOS app and now support for third-party apps. However this API could go away at some time in the future - in which case this app will cease to work.

Acknowledgements

Please see the Acknowledgements wiki page.

License

Copyright © 2015-2019 Jonathan Harris, 2020 EDCD

Licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

2020-06-16 21:00 UTC

Due to a lack of time to continue with maintenance at this point Marginal (also known as Otis on the Discord) has kindly transferred ownership of this github repository to the EDCD Organisation.

EDCD has some volunteers ready to take over maintenance, so over the next few days you can expect at least one fresh release to get things fully transferred (necessary to change the URL that EDMC uses to check for new versions). After that we'll work hard at getting all of the Pull Requests addressed before moving on to any other outstanding Issues.

Initially Athanasius will be the principle maintainer and releaser before passing the reins over to "LCU No Fool Like One" who has kindly agreed to take over as primary maintainer.

Any questions or further offers of help can be directed to the Discord #edmc channel as below.