IntelPy is a cross-platform chat log monitor and alert system for the game Eve Online.
- Cross-platform
- Alert tracker
- Audible alarms
- Filtering options
- Dark themes for Windows and Linux
- Awareness of the Eve Online map to calculate proximity
- Will watch any in-game channel you want, including system channels
- Download the latest Windows release from here.
- Extract the contents to a directory
- Run IntelPy.exe
- Download the latest source release from here
- Extract the contents to a directory, such as /opt/intelpy
- Install the required packages below
- Run
python /opt/intelpy/intelpy.py
Flatpak has been submitted and waiting on approval.
You only need these if you are downloading and running from source. The Windows and Flatpak will include the right versions themselves. The versions below aren't hard requirements, only what IntelPy has been tested on.
- Python 3.12**
- networkx 3.2.1
- PyQt5 5.15.10
- watchdog 4.0.0
- pygame 2.5.2
- pathlib 1.0.1
** For building with PyInstaller on Windows, you require Python 3.10 instead as well as pyinstaller 5.1.
IntelPy watches your Eve Online chat logs for text that matches a solar system relative to your current location (home). This is typically used with player-run intel chat channels in Eve Online. When a fellow capsuleer spots an enemy, they can alert others with a line like "Jita 10+ reds" in the chat channel. IntelPy captures this and alerts you depending on your proximity to Jita and your preferences.
Alerts come in the form of both a red text log message and an audible alarm you can set. IntelPy also tracks the last 5 alerts separately to the log and will clear them after a while. Now you can go grab another coffee and get distracted making a cheese toastie and know that if any of your friends spot an enemy you will have the chance to save your shiny internet spaceship.
A little bit of configuration is required to get IntelPy working. This mainly involves enabling chat logging in Eve Online and making sure IntelPy can see your logs.
- In game (if needed) turn on logging via the settings menu under Chat. This is usually already enabled by default.
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IntelPy should usually automatically detect your Eve Online Chatlog path. Check this is correct on the Config tab if you have trouble getting it to detect your chat channels.
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On the Config tab, set the names of the intel channels you want to watch from Eve. You may also need to manually choose your Eve chatlog location. If you are in the Imperium your intel channels are already configured.
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On the Main tab, set your home system (where you are krabbing). Alerts will be triggered relative to this system. The log screen will notify you of the change by indicating
Home set to: homesystem. Note that jump bridges are not taken into account as your enemies shouldn't be able to use them (you have bigger issues if they can). -
Adjust the slider to set how many jumps away from your home system that you wish to be notified. IntelPy is aware of the Eve Online solar system map so when someone says the name of a system within that amount of jumps from you, the alert sound and notification will trigger. The easiest way for people to alert each other in game is to drag and drop the system name from the top left of their game screen to the chat dialog box and press enter.
If IntelPy is not picking up your intel channels, you may need to double-check you have entered them in the Watched Channels configuration, as well as double-check the Eve Logs: section points to the place where Eve Online is logging your chats for you. The path to which Eve logs everything depends on how you installed it.
There are a handful of other options also configurable in the Config tab. This includes setting the alarm sound, IntelPy comes with a number of extra sounds, or you may choose your own. You can also set how long until alerts time out from the recent alerts screen as well as various filter/ignore options as you desire.
While IntelPy will try to use sane Chatlog paths on most operating systems, if you have installed Eve Online via Steam then your path may need to be manually configured to the appropriate location, especially on Linux.
On Linux, this will likely be:
~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/8500/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/EVE/logs/Chatlogs
Additionally, you may also need to enable "Show Hidden Files" in order to browse to this path. This can be done by right-clicking on an empty space in the chooser and selecting the appropriate option.
This source code is available under GPL3.
The project uses Qt 5 under the Qt Community Edition licence.
Eve-related data was made available by CCP and obtained from the Eve static data dump. See CCP Copyright Notice below.
Some Eve data was also obtained from https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/. Thanks heaps for your data dumps!
The alarm sounds included with IntelPy were sourced from https://freesound.org. Below are credits and licences for these sounds. Changes were made to most of these sounds to shorten the length to make them suitable for use with IntelPy.
- military_alarm.wav by KIZILSUNGUR License: Creative Commons 0
- alarming 1.flac by Timbre | License: Attribution Noncommercial
- 1 alarm long c.wav by jobro | License: Attribution
- Alarm Siren, Fast Oscillations by Kinoton | License: Creative Commons 0
- alarms.wav by guitarguy1985 | License: Creative Commons 0
- alarm_fatal.wav by sirplus | License: Creative Commons 0
- DIN Alarm European.MP3 by Fizzlecube | License: Creative Commons 0
- 003 - Invasion Alarm.mp3 by o_ultimo | License: Attribution
- Alarm No. 1 by Vendarro | License: Creative Commons 0
Links to sound licences:
- Creative Commons 0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
- Attribution: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Attribution Noncommercial: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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