Using the Settings Panel
The settings panel configures operation of EDDiscovery.
The page is split into the following sections.
This grid shows you information on the list of commanders that EDDiscovery has stored information on.
It also allows you to edit the configuration of a commander and add or delete commanders.
See the topic How EDDiscovery Works for information on how EDDiscovery discovers and creates new commanders. You can add a new commander manually, but that is not normally required any longer as EDDiscovery will make a new commander if it sees one in your journal logs.
If you're playing in legacy mode EDDiscovery detects it and creates a new commander with (Legacy) added to its name. This legacy commander reads the old history of the main commander until the date of the galaxy split and differs from the main commander from that time on.
You can manually delete a commander. Doing this detaches the commanders journal entries from the commander, they are visible in the "hidden log" commander afterwards and can be moved to a different commander if needed. Note if a new journal file is scanned and it finds that commander again, it will be auto recreated. Completely deleting all commanders and their events from the DB can be done using the safe mode.
Clicking on Edit or Add will take you to the settings screen
Here you can configure:
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Commander Name: Only if you are adding a new commander.
- For PC users, commanders are normally automatically found by reading the journal records, found in c:\Users\<user>\Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous, so you don't normally add them manually. Only if you are running EDD on a second PC where you want that PC to read journals from the Elite PC would you manually add a commander, with the same name as your game account (or you can use the Command Line Options to change the default journal folder to the network folder.
- For Console commanders, you would use this to give an EDD specific name to the commander, see below
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Journal Location: PC users only. You should normally leave the journal location set to the default saved games folder which it will fill in from finding your commander in the default journal location (see above). You should only change this if EDD is running on a second computer, and you need to point EDD at a share so it can see the journal files on the Elite computer.
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Console Commander. This is only clickable on adding a new commander. To make a console commander (one which works with your XBOX or PS account):
- First make a new commander (Add commander above)
- Give the commander a name (name does not have to be synchronised with the account name),
- Tick the console commander box
- You MUST log into Frontier CAPI to allow EDD to download journals for your commander from Frontier. Otherwise, you will not see anything!
- Click on any other option to send this data to other services
- See the video on 12.0
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EDDN Integration: Select if you want to send information to the EDDN network (which you probably do if you like using the websites since they rely on our data feeds)
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EDSM Integration: If you want to send your travel history to EDSM, you need to enter your EDSM Commander name, EDSM API key EDSM Integration, and choose the sync directions you want to use.
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Inara Integration: To integrate EDD with Inara, fill out this section.
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Frontier Companion API Integration. See the 12.0 release video. For PC users, Login to allow EDD to download the market data on a station automatically on docking. For Console users, Login to allow EDD to download your journals from Frontier.
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ED Astro Integration: If you want to automatically send FSS information to ED Astro, you need to tick the box to allow this data to be sent (not shown as new).
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Commander specific options. Where your home system is and the default colour to use for 3d map route traces.
See configuring ED theme for how to change the look of EDDiscovery
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Number Rows by Date Ascending: By default 1 is the latest entry. If you prefer it the other way around, click this.
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Time: Choose whether the time displays is your local time, UTC or the in game time (UTC in year 33XY).
- Settings for the web server. This allows configuration to enable or disable the web server, to set the TCP port to serve on, and a test button which launches your browser on the web page. See Web Server
- Key to Activate transparent windows : If you have the window set to no response when the cursor hovers over it (via the 'T' control on the top right) you need to press a key to get the window to activate. Define the key here.
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Only read essential Entries : If you have a very large history, EDD can go slow due to the effort of reading it all. Use this to indicate that only essential entries older than X days should be loaded. Default is disabled.
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Define essential items - define what you mean by essential items. Using nothing means that EDD will only read entries up to the time limit above. This allows you to limit memory usage.
See reducing memory usage for more information.
Downloading data for the star database takes bandwidth and disk space. Here you can limit the disk space usage by limiting the galaxy areas that are saved in the DB.
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Turn on/off star data download : If disabled, no EDSM/Spansh download takes place
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Galaxy Select : Indicate which areas of the galaxy to store from data obtained from EDSM/Spansh. This will limit your disk space usage, but not the size of the download.
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Reload Star Database: In case your database got corrupted or if you want to change the data source to EDSM/Spansh you can delete the whole DB by pressing this. This will trigger a complete rebuild, so only use it if you're absolutely sure.
You can download the whole data from EDSM/Spansh say on Wifi then turn off the data feed if using a bandwidth limited service (4G) etc. This will stop database updates, so you'd need to turn it on when you're using an unlimited connection again to get the data updated.
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Show notification area icon : show a notification icon in the notification area.
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Minimize to notification area icon : when minimised, don't show a task bar icon, instead just show a notification area icon.
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Redraw the screen during resizing : turn off if you have a 80486!
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Keep on Top: Keep window on top
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Panel List Sorted Alphanumerically: Instead of in groupings. Effects drop down panel lists and the selector tab. You need to restart to make this apply everywhere.
Use to select another EDD language. Note not all languages have everything translated. See Translations.
- You can set permissions on DLL, revoking or adding them using the permissions button
- You can configure a DLL (if it supports a configuration interface) by using the Configure button.
See DLL Support
Active the Safe Mode screen to allow special operations.
See Screen Shots