Elite Observatory - Search your journal for potentially interesting objects, or notify you of new ones on the fly while exploring!

Vithigar

Vithigar
Pon Farr said:
Hi Vithigar, I've got an odd problem!

Setting up a new PC which has Bitdefender on it, and when I try to download the Observatory stuff it blocks the web page, then if I bypass that it blocks the download. It also blocks me from copy the Observatory installation over from my old machine.

It claims the file is infected with "Gen:Variant.Ursu.804256" - does that mean anything to you?

I've searched for it and there are various hits claiming a false positive, and others stating it's a Trojan Horse.
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The webpage is GitHub, so blocking that seems pretty strange. Absolutely no idea what Gen:Variant.Ursu.804256 is.

I can assure you that the file is safe, and if you doubt that it's not difficult to grab the source and build it yourself. That said, the page being block is kind of a red flag to me, as GitHub is quite well known. What is the exact size in bytes of the file you've downloaded?
 

Eahlstan

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I hate those 'AI' powered virus detection engines -.-

There are several actions that make them shout 'shady'. Virustotal says these are:
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Only 13 out 71 detection engines available at virustotal detect this file as malicious. And one of them is honest enough to say that this is entirely based on voodoo:

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3navis

3navis
Pon Farr said:
Setting up a new PC which has Bitdefender on it, and when I try to download the Observatory stuff it blocks the web page, then if I bypass that it blocks the download. It also blocks me from copy the Observatory installation over from my old machine.
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Same problem.
The option to allow sending data to the internet has never seemed correct to me in this utility, and may be the cause of this problem.
 
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Vithigar

Vithigar
3navis said:
Same problem.
The option to allow sending data to the internet has never seemed correct to me in this utility, and may be the cause of this problem.
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The IGAU submission (if enabled) sends data, and there's a version check on startup the reads the release list from github's API but doesn't send anything.

As for the virus detection, I just checked myself on virustotal with the same result. It's definitely a false positive on copies of Observatory that you download from Github. Of course I won't say the same for files you receive from elsewhere.
 
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3navis

3navis
Vithigar said:
The IGAU submission (if enabled) sends data, and there's a version check on startup the reads the release list from github's API but doesn't send anything.
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it's just a comment, reading local files and sending information can be interpreted as a Trojan by an antivirus,
may be the reason for a false positive (even though it is not active). I may be saying something foolish

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The error is caused by the update check in GitHub (I don't know the reason)
Disable control in Bitdefender
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Pon Farr

Pon Farr
I didn't mean to insinuate it was some way a fault of yours, Vithigar, and I hope you didn't think that. I fully expected it to be a false positive.

Bitdefender is being particularly tenacious with it, though. I'll get it running on this PC when I need it, but at the moment I'm taking a break from explorer.
 

Vithigar

Vithigar
New release available, folks!

v0.5.20.101

This is a relatively small release. Working from home for the past few weeks and losing the physical work/home separation has robbed me of a lot of my motivation to work on my own projects in my free time, so I apologise to anyone who was hoping for more in upcoming releases.
Nevertheless,I've got a couple of bugfixes and some new functionality added that I'd like to get out to people. All three of the new features were requests from users, so thanks for your suggestions, and keep them coming!

"Uncommon secondary stars" will alert you to the presence of any secondary star that is not main sequence, a brown dwarf, or T Tauri class. These are sometimes non-obvious, especially in systems without planetary bodies where you might not even bother to check your system map.

The auto-clear list option should be self-explanatory. It will clear the visible list of interesting objects any time a scan comes in for an object that doesn't match the system of the previous scan. Keeping your list clean and easier to consume at a glance while flying.

The final new functionality is a new right click option to mark uninteresting bodies as interesting so they stay in the list. Elite Observatory is obviously not the final arbiter of what's interesting. If you see something interesting that's not covered by any criteria you can now stop it from disappearing from the list on next scan, to help ensure that you don't forget it before leaving the system.
Note that this does not persist between sessions, and bodies you mark in this way will not reappear in subsequent results when reading all journals.

Other bugfixes below:
  • Added new built-in criteria for uncommon secondary stars
  • Add option to auto-clear list on system changes
  • Add ability to mark "uninteresting" bodies so they are not removed on next scan
  • Fix issue with gold system reporting being repeated
  • Periodically trim internal system dictionary to reduce resource usage and improve performance with large journal sets
  • Prevent visual flicker when list updates
  • Custom criteria sample file now has criteria commented by default
  • ">50% size of planet" sample criteria blocked
As with the previous release, you have the option of running the standalone/portable exe, or using the msi to do a "proper" installation.
 

Vanquish383

Vanquish383
Hello!

I'm trying using the application (I'm on PS4), but it seems doing nothing :(

I've launched the application, selected a folder (actually an empty folder, because I'm running Elite on PS4) and then through the options I've selected the cApi option. Closing the setting dialog it asked me to link the Frontier account (which I've done). Once done, I've clicked the "retrieve journal" and then ... it is doing nothing.

I've launched the game, closed and re-opened the Observatory app, but nothing is done. It just says "retrieval journal for..."

Do I need to perform any further action?

Thank you!
 

Vithigar

Vithigar
Vanquish383 said:
Hello!

I'm trying using the application (I'm on PS4), but it seems doing nothing :(

I've launched the application, selected a folder (actually an empty folder, because I'm running Elite on PS4) and then through the options I've selected the cApi option. Closing the setting dialog it asked me to link the Frontier account (which I've done). Once done, I've clicked the "retrieve journal" and then ... it is doing nothing.

I've launched the game, closed and re-opened the Observatory app, but nothing is done. It just says "retrieval journal for..."

Do I need to perform any further action?

Thank you!
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If it worked it will eventually pop up a window that says something along the lines of "No data available between {date} and {date}" and give you the option to keep requesting older logs or not. There's no definitive way to know when Observatory has reached the end of what journal data is available, but eventually you'll want to hit "no" because Frontier only retains so much at a time. You should also see the folder you picked is now full of files with names like Journal.200316000000.01.log.

Just need to push the "Read All Logs" button and it will then scan through the logs it retrieved to see what's in there. Thinking on it now it probably makes sense to do that automatically when retrieval is complete.

There is no realtime monitoring or notification available via cAPI.
 

Vanquish383

Vanquish383
Vithigar said:
If it worked it will eventually pop up a window that says something along the lines of "No data available between {date} and {date}" and give you the option to keep requesting older logs or not. There's no definitive way to know when Observatory has reached the end of what journal data is available, but eventually you'll want to hit "no" because Frontier only retains so much at a time. You should also see the folder you picked is now full of files with names like Journal.200316000000.01.log.

Just need to push the "Read All Logs" button and it will then scan through the logs it retrieved to see what's in there. Thinking on it now it probably makes sense to do that automatically when retrieval is complete.

There is no realtime monitoring or notification available via cAPI.
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Unfortunately the folder I've picked is empty. I cannot see any file in it (and the application has been running for quite two hours).
 

Vithigar

Vithigar
When you say it has the text "retreiving logs for...", is there a date listed, or does it just end at "for:"?

If there's no date something went wrong with authentication. If there is a date that's longer ago than today there might be a dialog box hidden behind a window somewhere.

I've gotten very little feedback on the cAPI support since it was added, so this is the first time I've had to help someone with troubleshooting it.
 

Vanquish383

Vanquish383
Vithigar said:
When you say it has the text "retreiving logs for...", is there a date listed, or does it just end at "for:"?

If there's no date something went wrong with authentication. If there is a date that's longer ago than today there might be a dialog box hidden behind a window somewhere.

I've gotten very little feedback on the cAPI support since it was added, so this is the first time I've had to help someone with troubleshooting it.
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yes, there is the date of today


The exact text is "requesting journal for:2020-04-14"
 
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