HAST Elite Assistant

My gamer personality is firmly in the Explorer category so naturally Elite Dangerous offers some appeal, but I've felt hampered by the in game systems for navigation and exploration. There are other 3rd party applications out there, but none did quite what I wanted, and so HAST Elite Assistant was born.

My day job involves writing applications in WPF and C# so it was a natural choice for this application.

Latest Release

The latest release will always be made available here on Github.

Requirements

• SQL Server Express (LocalDb as a minimum)
• You must run it on the same machine as Elite Dangerous.
• Transparency features require Aero is enabled.
• VerboseLogging=1 enabled in the Elite Dangerous AppConfig.xaml

You can get SQL Server Express 2012 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29062

ENU\x64\SqlLocalDB.MSI is the version you'll want unless you're on a 32 bit version of Windows in which case you can save a few MB and get ENU\x86\SqlLocaLDB.MSI

Finally you'll need to make sure your AppConfig.xaml found in your Frontier_Developments\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1003 folder has VerboseLogging=1 set for the Network section similar to the following:

    <Network
      Port="0"
      upnpenabled="1"
      LogFile="netLog"
      DatestampLog="1"
      VerboseLogging="1"
      >

    </Network>

Current Features

• Auto imports systems.json from https://github.com/SteveHodge/ed-systems/ on initial startup
• Nearly instantaneous (though currently non optimal) route planning
• Topmost and Transparency support to display over the game
• Highlights the next system in the route when you enter a new system
• Copies the next system to the clipboard (can be disabled in settings)
• Speaks a warning when you enter a system that's not in the system data. Add it to EDStarCoordinator and future versions will import it.
• A settings flyout so users can edit various settings
• Speech options (enabled by default)
• Hotkey support (handy for use with Voice Attack)

The hotkeys I support are based on those of Elite Copilot:

• F20 - Will speak the next system
• F22 - Will avoid the next system (NOTE: You'll need to edit your preferences to remove it)
• F23 - Will swap source/destination

Future plans

The current list of enhancements is a long one.

If you do choose to try the app, please feel free to log any issues you encounter. If you're lucky I might fix them eventually.

For anyone needing it, there is code in there to read data from EDDN but it's not currently in use.

Links

Other open source Elite Dangerous related projects.

• Elite Copilot (Github) - Python based route planner with voice guidance
• Regulated Noise (Github) - C# based OCR scanner and trade tool with EDDN support
• Quazil's Astro Analytics (Bitbucket) - C# based trade tool with EDDN support

License/Disclaimer

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Jon Benson

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.