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Re: How to use Trade Dangerous and TD Helper GUI

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 8:53 am
by Bam
I have just found your gui for TD after being out exploring for several months. Things have defiantly improved on the Trade Dangerous side of things.
I have noticed that I have to resubmit my login details for edapi every time I start a new session, the cookie files is present, but it always wants to make a new one, is this normal?

Re: How to use Trade Dangerous and TD Helper GUI

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 6:59 pm
by Loriath
It is an issue that has popped up in the last couple of weeks. They are looking to see if it is because of the EDAPI that Frontier Controls. I have found a work around that seems to work for me, but I am not sure why.

Whenever I am going to be using Trade Dangerous, I do an update first (Through the TDHelper GUI) then it seems to go through no problems. I also do this PRIOR to logging into ED. I am not sure why it works for me this way, but it does.
I will also point out that I don't use the GUI to request the EDAPI data. I use a batch file that I launch from Voice Attack, and it preforms the same command, just opens a Command Prompt Window instead of using the GUI.

The batch file contains but one command:

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trade.py imp -P edapi -O eddn

Re: How to use Trade Dangerous and TD Helper GUI

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:27 am
by JustSomeGuy
A couple of questions:
Do you use the script instead of TDHelper button just so that you can use voice attack to do it, no other reason?
Since Trade Dangerous can pull market, shipyard & module data and send to EDDN, doesn't that make ED Market Connector pretty much pointless? Or does EDMC do something differently?

I do use TD with the helper. I do not fear command line, but the helper just tends to be faster way to do things. Now I'm wondering if I should use TD for data import/EDDN export since it sounds it does the same thing as EDMC. That would mean one less program open on screen.

Also, I exported TD .prices files from EDMC and imported them via TDHelper with ctrl-clicking the import button, but nothing seems to happen. One more reason to drop EDMC ?

Oh, one more: If I do use TD to import/export data, and press update db button after that, will that data I just imported be overwritten (for at least couple of hours) ?

Still one more :D: If I want to check the source for any nefarious things regarding the uid/pwd combo, there is a ton of *.py files.. I would not have any idea which ones I should check, and checking all is quite a job since some have thousands of lines of code. Any tips?

And thanks for the guide, makes the game more interesting :)

Edit: EDMC seems to be the winner of the popularity contest.
http://eddn-gateway.elite-markets.net/#software

Edit part 2: Just realized that while TDHelper shows me moon bases, there are no prices and therefore I get no routes that have moon bases. For example I can put 'FACECE/Vandermeer Installation' to source, but get 'Error: No buying prices at FACECE/Vandermeer'. When checking from Inara, that place do sell stuff.
I have TD version 7.4.0. TDHelper is 1.0.7.6.
I have used TDHelper to update db, last time the commands were;
trade.py import --plug=maddavo --opt=usefull,force
trade.py import --plug=maddavo --opt=use2d,force
trade.py import --plug=maddavo --opt=use3h,force,csvs

Any tips for this problem?

Re: How to use Trade Dangerous and TD Helper GUI

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 9:25 am
by Loriath
To be honest, I have not used it since before Horizons launched, but I do know that KFSONE has not been able to update the TD program and someone else has forked it. I am not even sure that the TDHelper GUI supports the planetary changes. Best is to check the Trade Dangerous thread on the main Forums.

Re: How to use Trade Dangerous and TD Helper GUI

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2016 7:04 pm
by JustSomeGuy
I think I'll let it rest for a while too, not that I was a super-active user before, but there are quite a few online options available now. But I'll take a peek once in a while out of interest :)
I'll use that market connector then. I'm using the .msi packaged version, but I guess I could take a few minutes to install the older python so I can run it from source.