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Elite: Dangerous Market Connector (EDMC)

This application downloads your Cmdr's details and system, faction, scan and station data from the game Elite: Dangerous and, at your choice, either:

sends station commodity market prices, other station data, system and faction information and body scan data to the Elite Dangerous Data Network (“EDDN”) from where you and others can use it via online trading, prospecting and shopping tools such as eddb, EDSM, Elite Trade Net, Inara, Roguey's, Trade Dangerous, etc.
sends your Cmdr's details, ship details, cargo, materials and flight log to Elite: Dangerous Star Map.
sends your Cmdr's details, ship details, cargo, materials, missions, community goal progress, and flight log to Inara.
saves station commodity market prices to files on your computer that you can load into trading tools such as Trade Dangerous or mEDI's Elite Tools.
saves a record of your ship loadout to files on your computer that you can load into outfitting tools such as E:D Shipyard, Coriolis or Elite Trade Net.

Supported Platforms

The primary platform for this application is Windows 10 (any version currently supported by Microsoft). It will probably also function on the following, but no testing is done on them: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1.

MacOS and Linux, and possible other platforms able to run a Python 3 program, are supported by running from source.

You can run the application on the same PC on which you're running Elite Dangerous or on another PC connected via a network share.

PS4 and Xbox are not supported.

Usage

Start the application before entering the game to ensure that you don't miss any data - some data is only available at game start.

However you will need your most recent game session to have included logging all the way into the game in order to set up some of this applications options. See Troubleshooting - Credentials settings are greyed out

The user-interface is deliberately minimal - your choice of data is automatically downloaded, transmitted and/or saved when you start Elite: Dangerous, land at a station, jump to a system or scan a body.

Ship Name

Click on the ship name to view its loadout on E:D Shipyard (“EDSY”) or Coriolis in your web browser.

System name

Click on the system name to view its entry in Elite: Dangerous Database (“eddb”), Elite Dangerous Star Map (“EDSM”) or Inara in your web browser.

Station name

Click on the station name to view its entry in eddb, EDSM or Inara in your web browser.

NB: This only works whilst docked. You might see an × character as the name sometimes when not docked. This means the application has determined that you're in a populated system and clicking this × will open the system page so you can see a listing of stations in it.

Update button

Remember, the application will automatically respond to game data so as to udpate and/or send it as needed. Under normal circumstances you won't ever need to press this button.

But if, for instance, you've been docked in a station for 15 minutes and want to ensure that EDDB etc have the latest commodities information then you can press the 'Update' button to trigger this.

There is an enforced cooldown on how often you can do this so as to not over-tax the Frontier CAPI service. The text 'Update' will change to 'cooldown XXs' during this cooldown.

Plugins might have their own internal cooldowns or queues which cause pressing this button to not necessarily send/update data.

Bottom status line

The bottom-most line of stock EDMC (no extra plugins), just below the 'Update' button, is used for short messages conveying status information and/or errors.