Release EDDI - Windows app for immersion and more

VerticalBlank · Jul 10, 2017

programmerBlack said:
Hey!

First off I'm a software developer myself. And I appreciate what you have done for the Elite Community with your software. It's really improving on my quality of life in the game. I wanted to know do you have a place to report bugs? I have one I would like to report to you that you might be able to fix when you have the time.

Thanks.

Github page as noted in the OP.
https://github.com/cmdrmcdonald/EliteDangerousDataProvider

InstaGibbon · Jul 10, 2017

Aless said:
Tried using the beta. Unfortunately, after 2 days, still no auto-update.

I'm also having this issue.
Was having some minor problems with 2.3.0-b8 so I rolled back to the release version, aaand now I can't update back to the beta [noob]

edit: getting "EDDI:CheckUpgrade [W] Failed to contact update server" in the logs.

Also, a quick question - I'm using EDDI as a Voice Attack plugin, and I'm trying to replicate some of the scripts present in the speech responder, specifically the "Docking Granted" event.
The responder script manages to grab the model of station (Coriolis, Orbis, etc.) from the context, but I can't find any variable accessible to Voice Attack that could provide that information.
Am I missing something obvious?

BumbleB · Jul 10, 2017

Has anybody else had a problem with using the "What use is *material*" "Where can i find *Material*"script?

When I ask "What use is" for any material it says it "material not used for any blue prints"

Is it calling something server-side and the server is down atm?
Using the latest version 2.3.0-b8

punkerich · Jul 10, 2017

BumbleB said:
Has anybody else had a problem with using the "What use is *material*" "Where can i find *Material*"script?

When I ask "What use is" for any material it says it "material not used for any blue prints"

Is it calling something server-side and the server is down atm?
Using the latest version 2.3.0-b8

Confirmed, same here.

Tkael · Jul 11, 2017

InstaGibbon said:
I'm also having this issue.
Was having some minor problems with 2.3.0-b8 so I rolled back to the release version, aaand now I can't update back to the beta [noob]

edit: getting "EDDI:CheckUpgrade [W] Failed to contact update server" in the logs.

Also, a quick question - I'm using EDDI as a Voice Attack plugin, and I'm trying to replicate some of the scripts present in the speech responder, specifically the "Docking Granted" event.
The responder script manages to grab the model of station (Coriolis, Orbis, etc.) from the context, but I can't find any variable accessible to Voice Attack that could provide that information.
Am I missing something obvious?

As far as I'm aware, EDDI cannot send an "object" (containing multiple variables) to VoiceAttack... VoiceAttack doesn't support them. You can get around this by using the SetState function in EDDI to pull variables from the object & send them to Voice Attack.

Saadia · Jul 11, 2017

Do we have server issues? I noticed that I have the same problem again as after the Elite 2.3.10 patch, where EDDI is functional with everything user-facing, but the faction and market data is not being sent to EDDN for use in EDDB and Inara (where for both there are no updates of systems I visited). Applies to play sessions I did between 10.07.2017 3:00pm and 11.07.2017 6:00am UTC.

Player2 · Jul 11, 2017

First of all, a big THANK YOU for this tool. It seems that 2.3(.10) broke some functionality. I am trying to connect it to EDSM but seems EDSM is not getting the updates (the Text-to-Speech works).
I understand that the problem can be on EDSM side, just wanted to let you know, and/or hopefully someone here can help me make it work.

Hoodathunk · Jul 11, 2017

Hoodathunk said:
jgm,

Do the Journal MassModuleStore, ModuleBuy, ModuleRetrieve, ModuleSell, ModuleStore, and ModuleSwap events update the ship and compartment objects?

It's not clear in the documentation.

jgm,

From my testing, I answered my own question... they do not.

Right now, the only way to get up-to-date on compartment objects is either log out and back in, or do a ship swap.

Admittedly, it's a first world problem, but having MassModuleStore, ModuleBuy, ModuleRetrieve, ModuleSell, ModuleStore, and ModuleSwap events which update the ship compartment object would be sweet.

tulextreme · Jul 12, 2017

Good evening cmdrs! Just a quick question, is the function

{F("Honorific")} {cmdr.name}.

Does not work atm? I'm currently ranks "ensign" and "marquis" for the factions but eddi keeps referring me as "my lord" all the time! Kinda fell rly awkward about it so i deleted it... How can i make eddi refer to my proper rank call signs? Thanks!

KellyR · Jul 12, 2017

tulextreme said:
Good evening cmdrs! Just a quick question, is the function

{F("Honorific")} {cmdr.name}.

Does not work atm? I'm currently ranks "ensign" and "marquis" for the factions but eddi keeps referring me as "my lord" all the time! Kinda fell rly awkward about it so i deleted it... How can i make eddi refer to my proper rank call signs? Thanks!

EDDI will only refer to you as "Ensign" or whatever rank you hold when you are in Federation Space. By the same token EDDI will only refer to you as Lord or whatever other Empire honorific you hold when you are in Empire space. Absent either one of those, it will refer to you as Cmdr. X (X being whatever your character's name is).

Tkael · Jul 12, 2017

Hoodathunk said:
jgm,

From my testing, I answered my own question... they do not.

Right now, the only way to get up-to-date on compartment objects is either log out and back in, or do a ship swap.

Admittedly, it's a first world problem, but having MassModuleStore, ModuleBuy, ModuleRetrieve, ModuleSell, ModuleStore, and ModuleSwap events which update the ship compartment object would be sweet.

Could you raise an issue for this on GitHub? When JGM is ready to publish a new revision of EDDI, that's where he'll be most likely to see the request. https://github.com/cmdrmcdonald/EliteDangerousDataProvider/issues

Hoodathunk · Jul 12, 2017

Tkael said:
Could you raise an issue for this on GitHub? When JGM is ready to publish a new revision of EDDI, that's where he'll be most likely to see the request. https://github.com/cmdrmcdonald/EliteDangerousDataProvider/issues

It occurred to me, but I don't see him responding to outstanding 'issues' there, so I was unsure about which would be the most effective medium... I will do so.

punkerich · Jul 12, 2017

Hoodathunk said:
It occurred to me, but I don't see him responding to outstanding 'issues' there, so I was unsure about which would be the most effective medium... I will do so.

I assume JGM is just extremely busy IRL atm. Well, at least i hope it's nothing more serious, been quite a time since last update. Would love to hear (read) from him again regarding future development...

tulextreme · Jul 12, 2017

KellyR said:
EDDI will only refer to you as "Ensign" or whatever rank you hold when you are in Federation Space. By the same token EDDI will only refer to you as Lord or whatever other Empire honorific you hold when you are in Empire space. Absent either one of those, it will refer to you as Cmdr. X (X being whatever your character's name is).

Okay KellyR! Thank you for the clarification! I'm learning to code using eddi atm! Any new info is gladly accepted!

BumbleB · Jul 12, 2017

Morwo said:
ok, but what about i call the play argument at the end, does this work out having text and the play argument there after?

Has anyone got the Play command to work? I've been messing about with it for hours but it just keeps reading out the play command. I've completely removed any script and only had the play line with the \\ to where the .wav is but it still just reads the text instead of playing the sound bite

Tkael · Jul 13, 2017

Saadia said:
Do we have server issues? I noticed that I have the same problem again as after the Elite 2.3.10 patch, where EDDI is functional with everything user-facing, but the faction and market data is not being sent to EDDN for use in EDDB and Inara (where for both there are no updates of systems I visited). Applies to play sessions I did between 10.07.2017 3:00pm and 11.07.2017 6:00am UTC.

Very possibly. I've poked jgm on Discord to request he look into that.

jimimadrid · Jul 13, 2017

Tkael said:
Jimi,

Here's the exception from your log:

Code:

2017-07-01T20:37:31 EDDI:findMonitors [E] Failed to load monitor: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException: [U][B]Failed to find the saved games directory.[/B][/U]

It looks like your saved games folder (and/or the Frontier Developments folder containing the journal files from Elite) is not where EDDI expects it to be. You should have a folder structure that looks like this and that contains your journal files:

Users\USERID\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\

Please check and see if that folder exists or has been moved to a different location on your local system?

Thanks Tkael, this was the solution. I renew this directory and it works. Gracias.

Zev Woundurlust · Jul 13, 2017

Has a non beta version of 2.3 been released? I just opened EDDI and got a notification of a mandatory upgrade. Are there version notes?

Taomyn · Jul 13, 2017

JRohrer said:
Has a non beta version of 2.3 been released? I just opened EDDI and got a notification of a mandatory upgrade. Are there version notes?

Yes, appears 2.3.0 is released but I'm having a hard time downloading it. The beta just hangs trying to update and Chrome is painfully slow.

jgm · Jul 13, 2017

I'm pleased to announce that EDDI 2.3.0 has been released. This release contains a large number of fixes and enhancements.

Please note that a number of items may no longer work as expected due to changes in the Frontier API. Items that might be missing or unreliable include

flags for if cargo is stolen and/or related to a mission, and cargo purchase cost
fuel level of the ship
engineering information for all ships, and any details at all of ships in the shipyard (also effects export to Coriolis)
ship and module purchase cost
accurate value for number of limpets when not docked

This might result in some templates not saying the expected thing, for which I apologise.

Also, this is likely to be the last EDDI release for a while. With the exception of any critical bugfixes I'm not planning on adding features in the foreseeable future. However, the community for EDDI is active, especially around changes to personalities, and I'm sure that many of the knowledgeable people on this and related threads will continue to help out with questions and enhancing EDDI's presence with better scripts. If there are any C# developers interested in adding features to EDDI or carrying on with maintaining it then feel free to drop me a PM.

The full changelog for EDDI 2.3.0 is below:

Core
- Tidy ups for reading from and writing to files to catch potential exceptions
- Do not send data to EDSM or EDDN if in a multicrew session
- Better handling of unknown commodities
- Attempt to handle messages coming from unknown ships with the prefix "$ShipName_"
- Update internal list of commodities
- Update internal list of commodities to include all known items
- Fix error when caching starsystem information
- Fix potential crash when comparing current and future star systems
- Fix typo in test event for 'Commander continued'
- Ignore nameplates when obtaining modules from journal
- Add 'Enable ICAO' option on text-to-speech tab. When enabled, planets and starsystems with alphanumeric qualifiers (e.g. the "AB 1" in "Shinrarta Dezhra AB 1") will be spoken phonetically (e.g. "Alpha Bravo One")
- Catch corner cases where ship name could come back empty
- Fix issue where 'Test script' button would not activate with custom scripts
- Changing verbose logging checkbox updates immediately
- Better updating of ship information from combined journal and API data sources
- Add ship role 'Taxi'
- Rename 'Companion App' tab to 'Frontier API' and update relevant text to clarify its use and operation
- Volcanism for bodies is now an object. For details of its fields check the relevant documentation
- Add ancient artifact commodity definitions
- Add ship value 'ident' which is the user-defined identification string for a ship
- Allow monitors to handle events, and generate their own events in turn
- New monitor: Material monitor. This allows you to set minimum/desired/maximum limits for materials and generate events when the limits are exceeded. Materials are tracked automatically in EDDI. Full details of the material monitor operations are available at https://github.com/cmdrmcdonald/EliteDangerousDataProvider/wiki/Material-monitor
- Remove the Netlog monitor. This was only used to obtain destination system when jumping and is no longer required due to additional information made available in the journal for this purpose
- Fix exploration role 'Trailblazer' to have correct name (was showing up as 'Explorer')
- Add reset button to Frontier API configuration panel
EDDN Responder
- Migrate to new EDDN endpoint
- Avoid use of data from Frontier API when setting starsystem information
EDSM Responder
- Provide error message when attempt to obtain logs fails
- Provide numeirc progress information rather than system name when syncing logs
- Add upload of materials, ship, etc.
Events
- Update 'Body scanned' event - added axial tilt. Added earth mass, radius and information on reserve level of rings. Made a number of items optional as they are no longer present if a DSS is not used to scan the body
- Update 'Bond awarded' event to provide details of the awarding faction
- Add 'Bond redeemed' event when a combat bond is redeemed
- Add 'Bounty redeemed' event when a bounty voucher is redeemed
- Update 'Commander continued' event - added fuel level of current ship
- Add 'Crew joined' event when you join a crew
- Add 'Crew left' event when you leave a crew
- Add 'Crew member joined' event when someone joins your crew
- Add 'Crew member left' event when someone leaves your crew
- Add 'Crew member launched' event when a crewmember launches a fighter
- Add 'Crew member removed' event when you remove someone from your crew
- Add 'Crew member role changed' event when a crewmember changes their role
- Add 'Crew role changed' event when your role on someone's crew changes
- Add 'Data voucher redeemed' event when a data voucher is redeemed
- Updated 'Docked' event to include distance from start
- Add 'File Header' event when a new journal file is found. This is usually just for internal use
- Add 'FSD engaged' event when the FSD is engaged to jump to supercruise or hyperspace. This replaces the 'Jumping' event and has a similar script
- Deprecate 'Jumping' event. This is part of the netlog monitor, which is no longer required. The functionality has been replaced by the 'FSD engaged' event
- Update 'Liftoff' event to record if the ship lifting off is player controlled or not
- Update 'Location' event to add longitude and latitude if the location is on the ground
- Add 'Material inventory' event when material information is supplied
- Add 'Material threshold' event when a threshold set in the material monitor is breached
- Update 'Message received' event to include NPC messages. Additional field 'Source' provides more details about the source of the message
- Update 'Mission accepted' event to include the number of kills for massacre missions
- Add 'Settlement approached' event
- Add 'Ship renamed' event to record when ship names and idents are changed
- Add 'Ship repurchased' event to record when player resurrects with their existing ship
- Update 'System state report' to say nothing if the system is not in any particular state
- Update 'Touchdown' event to record if the ship touching down is player controlled or not
- Add 'Trade voucher redeemed' event when a trade voucher is redeemed
Galnet Monitor
- Galnet monitor now categories and stores news articles
Material Monitor
- Update locking conditions for inventory
Ship monitor
- Track cargo using loadout event. This only gives a rough idea of cargo as it only triggers with certain events (docking, swapping ship etc.)
- Track limpets. This gives an approximation of how many limpets are on board and is useful when docked but does not track limpets as they are used
- Update locking conditions for shipyard
- Lock updates to ship monitor data structures to prevent corruption
- Do not update ship name or ident if it contains filtered sequences (***)
Speech Responder
- Script changes:
  - 'Blueprint make report' - new script to report how many of a blueprint can be made
  - 'Blueprint material report' - new script to report which materials are required for a blueprint
  - 'Body report' - add details of volcanism; handle retrograde rotation
  - 'Body scanned' - remove name of body so that it is not repeated in following report
  - 'Bond redeemed' - new script
  - 'Bounty redeemed' - new script
  - 'Commodity sale check' - various updates to give more reliable results
  - 'Commodity collected' - fix bug where 'cargo' was used instead of 'commodity'
  - 'Commodity sold' - do not report profit when purchase price is 0 (mined/stolen/mission commodities)
  - 'Crew fired' - add context
  - 'Crew hired' - add context
  - 'Crew member joined' - new script
  - 'Crew member left' - new script
  - 'Crew member launched' - new script
  - 'Crew member removed' - new script
  - 'Crew member role changed' - new script
  - 'Crew role changed' - new script
  - 'Crew joined' - new script
  - 'Crew left' - new script
  - 'Data voucher redeemed' - new script
  - 'Docked' - moved information messages to the 'Market information updated' script to trigger at a better time
  - 'Entered normal space' - add context
  - 'Entered supercruise' - add context
  - 'FSD engaged' - new script
  - 'Galnet news' - new script
  - 'Galnet news published' - updated script to only report on latest non-status news reports; by default does not read contents
  - 'Galnet latest news' - new script
  - 'Galnet oldest news' - new script
  - 'Galnet unread report' - new script
  - 'Jumped' - call system security report here rather than in 'Jumping' to guarantee up-to-date information
  - 'Liftoff' - change speech depending on if player is controlling ship or not
  - 'Limpet check' - correctly select singular or plural of limpet
  - 'Location' - add context
  - 'Market information updated' - new script taken from the end of the previous 'Docked' script
  - 'Material discard report' - new script to report how much of a particular material can be discarded (as per the material monitor settings)
  - 'Material inventory report' - new script to report how much of a particular material as defined by state or context is on board
  - 'Material location report' - new script to report where to obtain a particular material as defined by state or context
  - 'Material required report' - new script to report how much of a particular material as defined by state or context is required (as per the material monitor settings)
  - 'Material use report' - new script to the blueprint uses of a particular material as defined by state or context
  - 'Materials discard report' - new script to report which materials can be discarded (as per the material monitor settings)
  - 'Materials required report' - new script to report which materials can be discarded (as per the material monitor settings)
  - 'Message received' - updated to only respond to player messages, and to use appropriate source
  - 'Settlement approached' - new script
  - 'Ship refuelled' - state when ship is fully refuelled from scooping
  - 'Ship renamed' - new script
  - 'Ship swapped' - add reminders for limpets and crew if appropriate
  - 'Star scanned' - remove name of star so that it is not repeated in following report
  - 'System state report' - fixed a couple of typos
  - 'Touchdown' - change speech depending on if player is controlling ship or not. Name body on which the ship has touched down
  - 'Trade voucher redeemed' - new script
- Fix crash when showing "Changes from default" window
- Handle additional conditions for "changes from default" windows when editing templates in the speech responder
- When renaming scripts ensure that they are renamed not copied
- Update default templates to current latest version when reading in a custom personality
- Attempt to ignore invalid system names if presented in BodyDetails()
- Add "Log" function to write information to EDDI's log. This is an aid when debugging templates
- Fix issue where new templates might show up in custom personalities blank rather than with the contents of the default template
- Change edit window's "Show default" button to "Compare to default"; allowing diff-style comparison between the current and default scripts for templates
- Added 'ICAO' function to allow ICAO-style speech of ship identifiers, sector names etc.
- Added 'Play' function to play an audio file instead of a speech
VoiceAttack Responder
- Use defensive copies of arrays to avoid potential exceptions when they are modified whilst we are reading them
- Add other VoiceAttack commands
  - 'Tell me about this sytem' - Find out about the current system
- Add "Ship ident" and "Ship ident (spoken)"
- Update 'disablespeechresponder' and 'enablespeechresponder' plugin contexts to continue to work in the background but just be quiet
- Add VoiceAttack commands for the new speech responder plugin contexts:
  - "Be quiet" - Speech responder will not talk unless explicitly asked for information
  - "You may talk" - Speech responder will talk about events occuring in-game without prompting (this is the default behaviour)
- Add VoiceAttack commands for the material monitor:
  - 'How many <material> are on board' - Find out how many units of a particular material is on board
  - 'How many <material> do I need' - Find out how many units of a particular material are required to meet your desired level as set in the material monitor
  - 'What use is <material>' - Find out the blueprints that use a particular material
  - 'Where can I obtain <material>- Find out where to obtain a particular material
  - 'Which materials can I discard' - Find out how many units of materials can be discarded due to being above your maximum or desired level as set in the material monitor
  - 'Which materials do I need' - Find out how many units of materials are still required due to being below your minimum or desired level as set in the material monitor
- Add VoiceAttack commands for the Galnet monitor:
  - 'Is there any news?' - Report the number of unread articles
  - 'Read the latest community goal [news;]' - Read the latest community goal article
  - 'Read the latest conflict [news;report]' - Read the latest weekly conflict report
  - 'Read the latest democracy [news;report]' - Read the latest weekly democracy report
  - 'Read the latest economy [news;report]' - Read the latest weekly economy report
  - 'Read the latest expansion [news;report]' - Read the latest weekly expansion report
  - 'Read the latest health [news;report]' - Read the latest weekly health report
  - 'Read the latest news' - Read the latest news article
  - 'Read the latest security [news;report]' - Read the latest weekly security report
  - 'Read the latest starport status [news;report]' - Read the latest starport status update
  - 'Read the latest community goal [news;]' - Read the latest community goal article
  - 'Read the [next;oldest] conflict [news;report]' - Read the oldest weekly conflict report
  - 'Read the [next;oldest] democracy [news;report]' - Read the oldest weekly democracy report
  - 'Read the [next;oldest] economy [news;report]' - Read the oldest weekly economy report
  - 'Read the [next;oldest] expansion [news;report]' - Read the oldest weekly expansion report
  - 'Read the [next;oldest] health [news;report]' - Read the oldest weekly health report
  - 'Read the [next;oldest] news' - Read the oldest news article
  - 'Read the [next;oldest] security [news;report]' - Read the oldest weekly security report
  - 'Read the [next;oldest] starport status [news;report]' - Read the oldest starport status update
- Add other VoiceAttack commands
  - 'What do I need for <blueprint>' - Find out the materials required for a particular blueprint
  - 'How many <blueprint> can I make' - Find out how many of a particular blueprint you can make with your current inventory