MattG's Observatory plugins

By default, BioInsights will only notify of new entries galaxy-wide - most people just want to see one of each thing and don’t care about region. If you want them per region, go into Settings and tick the per region option.
Thank you for that hint. The regional checkmark wasn't set in the options. I will try it out with the new setting and get back here, if there is still any problem.
 
Not sure if this is the right place to ask...

I have (I think) the latest Observatory, but I'm seeing this under the bioinsights tab:

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It doesn't seem to refresh at all.


What am I doing wrong?
 
Not sure if this is the right place to ask...

I have (I think) the latest Observatory, but I'm seeing this under the bioinsights tab:

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It doesn't seem to refresh at all.


What am I doing wrong?

Make sure you have latest BioInsights (from here). Make sure you've pushed "Start Monitor" button (you probably have, but best to check).
You can try a Read All so it can do a background database refresh.
If all that fails, pop on to Observatory discord and DM me the log (if you right click "BioInsights" tab and select Open Data Folder, you'll find BioInsights.Log - zip that up and DM to me (don't post it here!))
 
Make sure you have latest BioInsights (from here). Make sure you've pushed "Start Monitor" button (you probably have, but best to check).
You can try a Read All so it can do a background database refresh.
If all that fails, pop on to Observatory discord and DM me the log (if you right click "BioInsights" tab and select Open Data Folder, you'll find BioInsights.Log - zip that up and DM to me (don't post it here!))
Ah, cheers! I'll check the plugin version (y)
 
Make sure you have latest BioInsights (from here). Make sure you've pushed "Start Monitor" button (you probably have, but best to check).
You can try a Read All so it can do a background database refresh.
If all that fails, pop on to Observatory discord and DM me the log (if you right click "BioInsights" tab and select Open Data Folder, you'll find BioInsights.Log - zip that up and DM to me (don't post it here!))
Ah, cheers! I'll check the plugin version (y)
As you suspected, it was the version :D

Thanks again!

(As an aside, I used to get annoyed with IT in my old job when they deployed incorrect/out-of-date versions of apps - now I know how they felt :D )
 
Funny, I saw that same "Refreshing..." message last night.

Fixed it by hitting Read All. Didn't check the version but I will do that next time.
 
Question about the BioInsights plugin and playing in a team.

From what I understood, when doing an FSS scan, only the cmdr who scans a planet will get details about the possible bio-signals displayed on the BioInsights tab. The other cmdrs in a team won't get this info. Is there any way to have this information appear on other cmdrs' BioInsights tab as well?
 
Question about the BioInsights plugin and playing in a team.

From what I understood, when doing an FSS scan, only the cmdr who scans a planet will get details about the possible bio-signals displayed on the BioInsights tab. The other cmdrs in a team won't get this info. Is there any way to have this information appear on other cmdrs' BioInsights tab as well?
Hmm, not currently. I'll have a think about if it might be possible in future though I think wing exploration is so rare it might not be worth the effort - but I'll ponder it.
 
Here's another of these pesky Electricae Radialem, but this time with a twist.

First the twist. The body is 'Cepheus Dark Region B Sector WY-A b0 A 1'. I visited it because I found that Canonn Bioforge lists a few non-argon atmosphere bodies as locations of Electricae Radialem, beside the much more common argon atmosphere bodies (see https://bioforge.canonn.tech/?entryid=Electricae Radialem). Never seen a non-argon Electricae Radialem and I wanted to catch one. Besides, as only a very few such locations were reported, it seemed possibile that there was something unusual about them. (A few of the search hits look weird: body with distance 0 to arrival point, such as Scutum Dark Region VK-N b7-6 4 d, so perhaps there has been some damage along the way.)

On spansh (searching for genus Electricae on bodies with anything except argon-based atmosphere) I found some 100+ such reports of non-argon atmosphere, one of which was pretty close to my current location. I decided to double check.

On visit, the real atmosphere was found to be argon-based. So ... Spans, and perhaps Bioforge, had probably got wrong data (unless the galaxy changed). So there are possibly a number of bad entries poisioning the statistics that Bioforge produces, and possibly also the Bioinsight criteria for predictions.

Suggestion: drop 'NeonRich' from the criteria for this species, unless there is a verifiable occurrence somewhere. At present, it seems likely to be incorrect.

The standard peskiness involved non-predictability, but as there seem to be several nebulae around this sector, it's probably a question of distance again. The Pueliae nebula being fairly close to finished (current max distance 153 ly)), I'm considering moving here when I'm finished to check if this one is different.

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