project eliza

What is it?

A third party tool for Elite Dangerous explorers, which is all about your personal discoveries. Especially for linux commanders who can’t use the likes of EDObservatory. Project eliza provides the following functions:

• after scanning a system it displays points of interest like a moon near rings
• notifications if a scanned body is somekind of personal record (like the biggest/smallest/hottest/coldest planet/star you discovered first)
• statistic functions (example: a list of the biggest A type stars you discovered...)
• display planets which are worth scanable (and an indicator if you scanned them already)
  • define your own rules for "worth scanning" planets (checks include planet type, gravity, atmosphere, temperature, mass, landable, terraformable, amount of bio signals)
• Keeps track of the potential exploration credits (per session and overall)
• can convert, rename and copy screenshots
• set a “home system” and display the current distance to it
• displays some body information in a understandable format (example: rotation period in seconds or minutes)

Download

Current version: 1.4.1 (2024-03-31) Changelog

Installation

Prefer mysql as a database? Then jump to the advanced section. Otherwise just continue.

Linux

The following packages are needed:

• python3-dev
• virtualenv
• libxcb-xinerama0

Extract archive, switch in the new directory and:

make install

./run.sh

Windows

Python 3 must be installed.

Extract archive, open a new console, navigate to the new directory and:

install.bat

run.bat

Updating

Already running a older version of the tool? Since 0.7.0 there is no need to reimport all data in most case. Just replace all files (remember to add your db credentials again, if you're using mysql as a database) and call the update function:

Linux

make update

Windows

update.bat

Quickstart

After the installation open the settings window (Admin / Settings) and choose the directory with the journal files.

Open the database management window (Admin / Database management) and click "Create Database". This will read all your journal files and build the necessary database. It can take a long time, depending how many journal files exist. But you can stop and restart the import.

If the database is build, switch to the “Discovery” tab and click “Start observer”. Start Elite Dangerous and begin exploring.

Advanced Configuration

To directly start with a mysql database, edit the file config/config.ini before running the installation script. Add your mysql connection data in “Mysql” section and set “DatabaseType” to mysql.

[Database]
DatabaseType = mysql

[Mysql]
Hostname = my_hostname
Username = my_username
Password = my_password
DbName = my_database