Release EDEB - Elite Dangerous Exploration Buddy

I'm having an issue with the UI updating properly. The voice prompts are working, like when a valuable planet is scanned or when I find bio signals, but the UI isn't updating. I'm sure I'm just missing something but if anyone can point me at it, I would sure appreciate it.

edit: The UI has correct info when I start the program, just never updates. no freezing, can cycle tabs, just never updates.

Edit2: Fixed the issue. My route was too long. >300 jumps. Cut it in half, working fine.
 
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Curiously I'm also having an issue with the UI updating properly.

I tried completely re-installing EDEB to no effect. in the logs it says for example it is changing my 'current activity' but in EDEB it is frozen on plotting route. I can confirm If I have text to speech on, it will prompt me for discovering new bodies, yet nothing changes in EDEB. It's essentially frozen and won't update no matter what I do in-game.

I also tried doing a smaller route, of 1 system even and still won't update my UI.
 

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After another full re-install including rebooting the PC and starting the game up again the UI still freezes, even though the log seems to state that it is changing the current activity. In the route/bodies list all of the info is also all greyed out strangely, I can only get the UI to seemingly function if I plot a new route, anything else I do and nothing updates. Ill add the new log here if it's any help, there seems to be a new large error.

I do have EDDI and EDDiscovery running in the background and they both update as normal and send data to INARA / EDSM successfully.
 

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After another full re-install including rebooting the PC and starting the game up again the UI still freezes, even though the log seems to state that it is changing the current activity. In the route/bodies list all of the info is also all greyed out strangely, I can only get the UI to seemingly function if I plot a new route, anything else I do and nothing updates. Ill add the new log here if it's any help, there seems to be a new large error.

I do have EDDI and EDDiscovery running in the background and they both update as normal and send data to INARA / EDSM successfully.
Hi and thanks for reporting!
I have checked the error (it's something with EDSM) and will try to fix it, however, I do not believe that this causes the frozen UI. It seems that the Buddy itself is not frozen because speech output seems to work and also logging.
For test purposes, can you please try to run EDEB together with ED and without any other 3rd Party Tool?
Are you using the default path for ED journal files (<user>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous)?
Can you check your latest journal file if there are any bodies present?

Also, I wonder if you were visiting only systems that you already visited in-game. Then there are no (new) journal entries for bodies and EDEB will only show bodies that are read from EDSM (which might fail in your case currently) or read from EDEB's History (which you don't have yet).
So maybe EDEB is just displaying nothing. Can you test this by flying to a system that is not yet discovered?
 
Hi Sorry for the late reply and thank you for getting back to me. I've been away on holiday to Japan and only just got back. Ill test it all shortly, but seems like your theory about visiting only systems that I'd already visited is correct. I guess I was just confused as when say scanning planets in said system, it wouldn't populate any of the bodies in EDEB and if I then flew out of the system it would be stuck in plotting route. Il get back to you ASAP!
 
Pre-release version 1.5.8 is available on EDEB's discord server for beta testing for anyone who is interested. The new version features a complete rewrite of the planetary exploration value system and now calculates cartographic values and displays your personal status for every body in a system.

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To join beta testing EDEB, start here:
(expires in 7 days)
 
A new version of EDEB is available for download/update: 1.5.9
It includes:
  • Complete revision for exploration values in EDEB
  • Cartographic Value columns with a tooltips containing details on personal cartographic progress
    BodyCarthographicValueTooltip.png

  • A progress value that shows the overall progress of cartography and exobiology in the system
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  • The journal file path and a threshold value for valuable bodies can now be set in the preferences
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  • Improved surface scan icon reflecting several states of the surface scan status
    BodySurfaceScanStatusTooltip.png

  • and more ...
Full update notes can be found here:
 
Version 1.7.1 is available now.
  • All existing journal files can now be imported into the history of EDEB. This means that all systems that you have already visited in-game (if the corresponding journal file still exists) are then also known in EDEB, including all exploration values, body data, planet surface scans, landings, bio/geo signals and exobiology data.
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  • ... and several fixes
Enjoy and o7
 
Hi. Not a problem, I love this program, but are you aware that any planet scanned thas has a suffix "a" to its name, the "a" is repeated twice in audible.
One of the best Elite third party progs out there IMHO (y)
 
Hi. Not a problem, I love this program, but are you aware that any planet scanned thas has a suffix "a" to its name, the "a" is repeated twice in audible.
One of the best Elite third party progs out there IMHO (y)
Hi and thank you so much!
I do not have this issue, can you confirm that this happens for all bodies with an "a" at the end? Could you please try to open Preferences->Speech and test the speech output for Valuable Species Count? The example planet there has the name "12 a".
Thank you and o7
 
Hi again. Yes, that does say "12aa". In game though it only seems to say it on the FSS scan, first discovery "First discoverer planet 12aa". Having just tested this in EDEB v1.7.1 as requested I tried changing from Hazel to Zira in Voice and that was fine. I will try that in game later today.
 
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Well as it is not a problem there is no need to fix it but if it is an irritation for some we can just switch to Zira. Solved. Zira just sounds a little blunt in comparrison to Hazel as if that matters! ;)
Anyway, this is one of those third party add-ons that once you get used to it and play with the settings you just can't do without it when exploring. JMHO of course.

(y)
 
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