Development

As @ccev stepped back from further developing a number of his tools, I @crhbetz decided to take over on eventwatcher for now. I'll try my best to keep existing functionality in a working state. On the asyncio branch there's a version aiming at being fully compatible with MADs switch to asyncio that's currently being finished.

Feedback and contributions (PRs) are very welcome.

Improvements

Possible improvements that I've thought of

• Better documentation. I think a lot of people don't understand what Event Watcher does or how it should be configured
• Possibly an optional Raid Boss prediction. Instead of writing an egg to the DB, it could write the current boss to it. I tried implementing this but it got super hacky. maybe there's a better solution than what I had.

Usage:

You can import this like any other MAD Plugin.

If this is the first time you're setting up a MAD Plugin:

• Download Eventwatcher.mp on the releases page
• Open {madmin.com}/plugins, click "Choose file" and choose the EventWatcher.mp file you just downloaded. Or drag&drop it there.
• go to MAD/plugins/EventWatcher/ and cp plugin.ini.example plugin.ini && cp walker_settings.txt.example walker_settings.txt
• Restart MAD

There's two config options:

• sleep to define the time to wait in-between checking for new events. By default it's one hour.
• delete_events if you want Event Watcher to delete non-needed events (including basically all you've created yourself) - by default it's set to False.

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How does it work?

To not put unnecessary load on cool community-made websites, the Plugin pulls data from this file. A list I automatically update and commit to github.

The Plugin then grabs that file and checks if an event is missing for you or changed information and then updates your database accordingly.

Quest Resets

Event Watcher can automatically adjust Quest scan times based on on-going events. It does it by checking the file above for events that reset Quests and then changes your walkerarea values with the event times.

Config options

• enable: Whether or not to enable auto Quest resets default_time: The time you want Quest scans to start on normal days
• max_time: Ignore reset times that are later than this
• check_timeframe: Defines the hours in which the plugin checks quest resets
• reset_for: Define event types and if you want quests to reset for their start, end or both.
  • event community-day - if you want to rescan quests for every start and end of an event and cday
  • event:start - only rescan quests for event starts (my personal recommendation)
  • community-day event:end - Rescan quests for cday starts and ends, but only for event ends
  • Available event types are event, community-day, spotlight-hour and raid-hour. The last 2 are less relevant. Most events are of type event.

walker_settings.txt

walkerarea_id ?

get your walkerarea_id by opening MADmin, then go to Settings > Walkers > The walker you want > edit the area the time should be edited for. The URL will now look something like this: https://madmin.com/settings/walker/areaeditor?id=10&walkerarea=101. In this case, the 101 is what you want.

The ? will be replaced with the correct quest reset time. Depending on your walker setup, the format of the value will look different. I have a mon area on period and the value 00:00-03:00, then the quest area following it. Say the walkerarea_id is 10, then my walker_settings would look like this:

10 00:00-?

Wildcards

Wildcards can be used to further refine walkervalues. Their syntax work the same way most functions work in programming languages. E.g. max(10:00, 12:00) would return 12:00. The following wildcards can be used:

• add(X) adds X to the reset time. If quests reset at 9am and you use add(1) in your walker settings, it would turn to 10:00. If you use add(2:30), it would become 11:30.
• min(X, Y) and max(X, Y) are replaced either with the smaller or the higher value. If quests reset at 10am, max(?, 2) would become 10:00.
• ifevent(X, Y) uses X if there's an event and Y if there's not.

Nested wildcards are supported. So you could use max(12:00, add(5)) or ifevent(min(max(03:00, ?), min(04:00, ?)), ?)