ED Scout stays blank, but remote connection works

[EoD]

When I am starting EDscout by ./EDScout.exe, the screen pops up and is empty:

But when I am opening the remote connection in a browser tab in parallel, it looks good: http://localhost:5000/

Is it possible that the auto-launched chrome window is not using its own profile, like a guest profile? Maybe some of my browser extensions are interfering with the main window.

[joncage]

Now that is interesting. EDScout uses this module to launch the chrome instance: https://pypi.org/project/flaskwebgui/

The line in question is here: https://github.com/ClimenteA/flaskwebgui/blob/34a1e2d47eef6f9283f7f440db8b106315f0ee4c/src/flaskwebgui.py#L201

[self.browser_path, "--new-window", '--app={}'.format(self.localhost)]

i.e.

chrome.exe --new-window --app=http://127.0.0.1:5000

Some questions for you;

1. When you plot a route after opening it in that state, does it recover?
2. If you right-click on the stalled GUI and hit Inspect then go to the Console tab, do you see any error messages?
3. What do the logs in C:\Users\<You>\AppData\Local\EDScout\Logs look like?

[joncage]

Could be related to #105

[EoD]

chrome.exe --new-window --app=http://127.0.0.1:5000

That is probably the issue here. My "normal" Chrome does not allow many external scripts, especially none from 127.0.0.1. It would be preferable if you could launch chrome.exe --guest --new-window --app=http://127.0.0.1:5000 instead. When I am doing this locally, it seems to work out of the box.

When you plot a route after opening it in that state, does it recover?

I was not able to make it show any kind of data

If you right-click on the stalled GUI and hit Inspect then go to the Console tab, do you see any error messages?

Nothing in particular, but plenty of messages regarding ad-blocking

What do the logs in C:\Users<You>\AppData\Local\EDScout\Logs look like?

I am not seeing any errors

[joncage]

Gotcha. I'll give that a try and make a proposal to the maintainer of flaskwebgui. I've submitted quite a few alterations in the development of EDScout 😉

Might get you to try a beta to check this fix solves it for you if you're okay with that?

[EoD]

Might get you to try a beta to check this fix solves it for you if you're okay with that?

sure!

[Overcon]

I am having the same issue. It seems to work, then I logout for the night, but leave edscout running, come back and it will not update, despite closing and opening it. Replotting route doesn't help either.