Now, each time I try to refresh, I get the "Server is down" message.
Anybody else?
Anybody else?
Is ED Market Connector broken?
- Thread starter CMDR Kantos Kan
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Must be something like this. Hopefully, it's not permanently broken...
The Apple IOS companion app has stopped working, so I would guess FDEV have changed or totally switched the API off.
My money would be on 'switched off', as they seem very unwilling to talk about API.
If someone can find an angle on the XBox version needing an API, we would most probably have one released within weeks! #dirtymicrosoftca$h
My money would be on 'switched off', as they seem very unwilling to talk about API.
If someone can find an angle on the XBox version needing an API, we would most probably have one released within weeks! #dirtymicrosoftca$h
The IPOD app is broken too.......
For me, the iPhone app stopped working right after I upgraded my iPhone to iOS 9. Might have been a coincidence but I'm not totally sure it was shutdown.
I'm on iOS 9.0.2 and just see an immediate crash.
Since you get a different experience on iOS 8 please add to this bug report.
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It's working for me now
er.. No it isn't! It worked at one station but by the time I travelled to the next station, it was back to "Server is down" status again.
er.. No it isn't! It worked at one station but by the time I travelled to the next station, it was back to "Server is down" status again.
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Or they killed it intentionally. Frontier's approval of it was always dubious. I personally didn't trust it, I'd rather use the OCR if I don't have to type my game password into a 3rd party app.
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Hope they make it work again. Bit miffed it isn't working. I rechecked my trade routes a couple of days ago before Horizons came out and had some 1500ish per T each way, then, update happened. I had a load of slaves which sold for 100c profit instead of 1500... now, its about -300c. The prices are all backward. Back to mining 
Was lucky yesterday on my trade route. Most prices were a few days old, some 9 day old. I made more profits on some trades, less on others but it was still profitable. The old prices tell me that a lot of people were probably using MarketConnector to update the prices at eddb.io. Using the OCR method is kinda awkward...
a quick look at the eddn logs show that up to the 15th, there were a ton of EDMC updates just streaming in. After that, the only thing that's been working right is Regulated Noise (OCR).
I really hope they bring back some API or dump file. This OCR stuff is incredibly silly, and I will miss being able to find modules when the current stocks become inaccurate.
I really hope they bring back some API or dump file. This OCR stuff is incredibly silly, and I will miss being able to find modules when the current stocks become inaccurate.
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The problem is this:
I believe that shortly after the 1st release of Elite Dangerous, Frontier thought it would be great to have a companion app on the iPhone. So, they built one. Not very useful but still, that was a start. Now, this "companion" app needed data from the game. So, Frontier made some APIs (Application Programming Interface) accessible over the internet so that this companion app could pull your data and show you things like where you were docked, what the commodity prices were there, etc.
So, some ingenious people discovered this and started using those APIs to get data from the game. Since there was an API to check the price of commodities where you are docked, it was easy for the ingenious developers to get this data and then send it to eddn.
However, with each new major version of Elite Dangerous, the servers providing the APIs would go offline but they would come back after a few days.
Now, the companion app on the iPhone hasn't been upgraded in quite some time. Right now, with the current version of iOS, it crashes as soon as you launch it. With the release of Horizons, the servers providing those APIs have been offline and they are still offline. So, tools that rely on these APIs are SOL, they don't work because the servers they connect to to get the data are not responding.
That's the story. Now, it's everyone guess whether they will come back online or not. Frontier didn't do anything to prevent 3rd parties to use those APIs but it didn't encourage people to use them and didn't publicize it either...
I believe that shortly after the 1st release of Elite Dangerous, Frontier thought it would be great to have a companion app on the iPhone. So, they built one. Not very useful but still, that was a start. Now, this "companion" app needed data from the game. So, Frontier made some APIs (Application Programming Interface) accessible over the internet so that this companion app could pull your data and show you things like where you were docked, what the commodity prices were there, etc.
So, some ingenious people discovered this and started using those APIs to get data from the game. Since there was an API to check the price of commodities where you are docked, it was easy for the ingenious developers to get this data and then send it to eddn.
However, with each new major version of Elite Dangerous, the servers providing the APIs would go offline but they would come back after a few days.
Now, the companion app on the iPhone hasn't been upgraded in quite some time. Right now, with the current version of iOS, it crashes as soon as you launch it. With the release of Horizons, the servers providing those APIs have been offline and they are still offline. So, tools that rely on these APIs are SOL, they don't work because the servers they connect to to get the data are not responding.
That's the story. Now, it's everyone guess whether they will come back online or not. Frontier didn't do anything to prevent 3rd parties to use those APIs but it didn't encourage people to use them and didn't publicize it either...