EVE Buddy

A companion app for Eve Online players

Contents

• Description
• Screenshot
• How to Run FAQ
• Credits

Description

EVE Buddy is a companion app for Eve Online players. Key features are:

• Import information for each characters:
  • Assets: Full asset browser
  • Character: Curren clone, jump clones, and more...
  • Mails: Full mail client for receiving and sending Eve mails
  • Skills: Training queue, catalogue of all trained skills and what ships can be flown
  • Wallet: Wallet and Wallet Transactions
• Overview of all your characters (e.g. wallet, skill points, location)
• Wealth: Charts showing wealth distribution across all characters
• Assets search: Full asset search across all your characters
• Can minimize to system tray and show indicator for new mail
• Receive desktop notifications about important communications (e.g. Structure gets attacked)

Screenshot

How to run

To run EVE buddy just download and unzip the latest release to your computer. The app ships as a single executable file that can be run directly. You find the latest packages for download on the releases page.

Linux

Note

The app is shipped in the AppImage format, so it can be used without requiring installation and run on many different Linux distributions.

1. Download the latest AppImage file from the releases page and make it executable.
2. Execute it to start the app.

Tip

Should you get the following error: AppImages require FUSE to run., you need to first install FUSE on your system. Thi s is a library required by all AppImages to function. Please see this page for details.

Windows

1. Download the windows zip file from the latest release on Github.
2. Unzip the file into a directory of your choice and run the .exe file to start the app.

Mac OS

Note

The MAC version is currently experimental only, since we have not been able to verify that the release process actually works. We would very much appreciate any feedback on wether the package works or what needs to be improved.

1. Download the darwin zip file from the latest release on Github.
2. Unzip the file into a directory of your choice
3. Remove the quarantine flag by running this command in a terminal window: sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine "EVE Buddy.app" (For more details please see here)

Build and run from repository

You can also build and run the app directly from the repository. For that your system needs to be able to build Fyne apps, which requires you to have installed the Go tools, a C compiler and a systems graphics driver. For details please see Fyne - Getting started.

When you have all necessary tools installed, you can build and run this app direct from the repository with:

go run github.com/ErikKalkoken/evebuddy@latest

Troubleshooting

The app can be started with optional command line arguments, which offers some additional features and can help with trouble shooting. For example you can enable logging to a file and/or increase the log level.

For a description of all features please run the app with the help flag:

evebuddy.exe -h

FAQ

Where is my data stored? I am concerned about potentially leaking sensitive data

All data downloaded from CCP's servers is stored on your computer only. There is no data transferred to any servers and the maintainers of this software have no access to your data. Therefore there is very little risk of sensitive data being leaked.

Credits

"EVE", "EVE Online", "CCP", and all related logos and images are trademarks or registered trademarks of CCP hf.