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Vintel Setup

This document describes the settings available in the Vintel application.

Settings Dialog

The settings dialog has three panes: Quick Setup, Jumpbridges, and Chat Channels.

The Jumpbridges pane allows you to specify a source for jumpbridges to be rendered on the maps. You may specify either a DOTLAN jumpbridge list id or an URL to a file containing your own jumpbridge list. More details on the format of the file can be seen in the application pane or in Quick Setup below.

The Chat Channels pane allows you to specify EVE chat channels to monitor for intelligence reports. You must keep this chat channel open in a tab in game and have Log Chat to File selected in EVE Settings > Chat. Vintel monitors and processes these log files on your local disk.

Quick Setup

The first pane of the settings allows you to paste a quick configuration JSON blob that may be provided by your alliance.

  1. dotlan_jb_id The id of a jumpbridge list from DOTLAN. Include just the id, i.e. from http://evemaps.dotlan.net/bridges/XXXXxxxx use the XXXXxxxx

  2. jumpbridge_url A url to a file containing your bridge list. Each line in the file should contain two systems separated by a <->. i.e. HED-GP <-> 36N-HZ

  3. channels A JSON list of the channels to be monitored.

  4. kos_url A URL to your alliances KOS server.

  5. region_name The default region to load on launch. Later, the application will remember the last region viewed and load that when you restart.

  6. quick_regions The regions listed here are automatically added to the application's Region menu. Any name starting with a dash will be interpreted as a separator and will draw a horizontal line between entries. Each entry should have a label field which is how it will appear in the menu. Each may also have a region field which can be used to override the region name used when looking up this system on DOTLAN if the label is not an exact match (spaces will be automatically converted to underscores).

    The region should match a DOTLAN url - i.e. http://evemaps.dotlan.net/map/Catch. The region can also be one of the special or combined maps listed at the bottom of the DOTLAN universe page. Vintel also recognizes the custom region providencecatch.

This is what the Vintel defaults would look like as a quick configuration entry:

{
  "dotlan_jb_id": "",
  "jumpbridge_url": "",
  "channels": [
    "TheCitadel",
    "North Provi Intel",
    "North Catch Intel",
    "North Querious Intel"
  ],
  "kos_url": "http://kos.cva-eve.org/api/",
  "region_name": "Catch",
  "quick_regions": [
    {"label": "Catch"},
    {"label": "Providence"},
    {"label": "Querious"},
    {"label": "---"},
    {"label": "Provi / Catch", "region": "providencecatch"},
    {"label": "Provi / Catch (compact)", "region": "Providence-catch"}
  ]
}

Other Menu Settings

File > Clear Cache

If you notice any weirdness with maps or avatars, you may try flushing the Vintel cache. Avatars and maps will be redownloaded.

Chat > Show Chat

Hide the chat history on the right side of the screen

Chat > Show Chat Avatars

Do not show character portraits in the chat history. Unfortunately selecting this doesn't yet make the chat window more compact.

Sound > Activate Sound

This should be checked to enable sound in Vintel.

Sound > Sound Setup ...

Test the sound configuration.

Sound > Spoken Notifications

Doesn't work on Windows 10, what does it do?

Region

Select a region from the quick region shortcuts configured in Quick Settings

Region > Other Region

Select from a list of all known EVE regions.

Region > Custom Region ...

Displays a freeform text box to enter a standard or custom region by name.

K.O.S.

Activate some of the Kill On Sight processing and warnings.

Window > Always On Top

Keep this window above all other windows.

Window > Frameless Main Window

Remove OS decorations from the window: titlebar, menubar, ... Once activated a Restore Frame button will be available in the upper left corner of the screen. Click that to restore the window decorations.

Window > Transparency

Set the window opacity.