Aura 0.4.0

Greetings fellow capsuleers! I am pleased to announce that Aideron Robotics has, with further research, gained a deeper understanding of Sleeper AI technology. Our top engineers and scientists have continued to integrate this advanced technology directly into to the capsule's AI unit.

Capsuleers with a compatible pod wishing to try out the new Aura AI unit can stop by any Aideron Robotics office to have their pod upgraded.

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Enough role playing! What's new? [full version history]

In this version we've added the ability to view assets in your personal hangar (corporation assets will appear in a future version). A complete database of all published items was added to support this feature. Just like other EVE monitoring tools the data files are automatically downloaded. The data files are stored on the SD card in a directory named 'aura' off the root of the SD card and requires around 20 MB of storage.

To view your assets for your characters you will need to enter your full access API key. If you've entered a limited access key you can re-add the key by either updating the api_keys.txt file on the SD card or sending yourself and email with the a link that contains the full API info.

A new list item called 'Assets' now appears under the character sheet. If you have entered a full access key for that character you will be presented with a list of all of your assets.

Touching on an item will bring you to the details page that contains information about where those items are located and how many are at that location. Let's take a look at the Hobgoblin II's.

As you can see I own a total of 34 Hobgoblin II's spread across four locations. This activity was designed give you a quick overview of where your items are located and stored. Two icons, the ship icon and the hangar icon , are displayed to help in quickly figuring this out. There are three different combinations of icons which may appear. In the common case, when all the items are in your hangar, no icons are in displayed. If all the items are fitted to ships, or in ship holds or bays, then the ship icon is displayed alone. Finally, if some items are in the hangar, and some in ships, then both the ship and hangar icons are shown.

Let's take a look at an example where both icons appear, by touching the entry for Stetille II.

You can see from this activity that 10 of the Hobgoblin II's are stored in the hangar and 5 are in the Dominix 1220455934 (too bad the API won't give us ship names!). From this activity you can see that Dominix has the Hob IIs. You can even check if you remembered to put the drones in the drone by touching the Dominix to get more detail.

When you touch a ship, either from the main assets list or from the details page of another item, you will be taken to a activity that contains three tabs: Fittings, Cargo, and Drones.

As I said earlier we've included a full item database which includes the descriptions and attributes of each of the items. You can view the details for an item by simply touching on the blue info icon.

Why wasn't feature XYZ implemented?

The simplest answer is time. The current state of the assets feature is good enough to be useful and I've decided to release it in its current state. My hope is that I will be able to release smaller updates when I complete new features rather than doing a big monolithic change like this one.

What's next?

The two most notable things that are missing from this release is the ability to search and filter your assets and the ability to browse the item database. The item database is mostly ready but was intentionally disabled for this release. I am still working on a good way to navigate to top-level features like the item database without slowing down the common case of checking on your skill training.

Market comments

I would like to close with the following request. If you are having issues with Aura please email me at aura@aideronrobotics.com. I don't check the market comments that often and even if I did it is a real pain to reply to them in that tiny little comment box.

Fly Safe!