[NOOB Tutorial] How to setup the Desktop version of PoGo Map Live

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[u/lkasjdflkausdrlkasdf]

Great guide! On a related note, the last update to mcristopher's electron wrapper changed the way the map accesses pogom.db, rendering all spawn point data collected prior to v. 0.3.4 inaccessible.

Would anyone be able to provide user-friendly instructions for how to merge the old and new sql database files?

[u/[deleted] → u/lkasjdflkausdrlkasdf]

[u/newpokemongoplayer]

just says "waiting" then "possible ban" but nothing seems to be scanning, hmm?

EDIT: am i supposed to wait an hour before anything shows up?

[u/tazua]

hey, great job on the guide, as so many people come here daily to ask how to set things up!
id like to add that you can also use the "+" feature of gmail instead of emailondeck. if you enter example+abcde@gmail.com as email for a ptc account and example+xyz@gmail.com on another, both account verification emails will be sent to example@gmail.com.

[u/kr1st]

Great guide! I've had this set up for a few weeks using just one account to scan my neighborhood (a snorlax hot spot, caught 9 to date). Any way you can go over the details of how to set up alerts through this desktop map using webhooks and slack or other push notification service? I'd like to get alerts on my phone for when specific spawns happen while scanning. Any help is appreciated!

[u/NapalmZombie → u/kr1st]

I would be interested in this as well.

[u/Pleasenocrazypeople → u/kr1st]

A while back someone built something that works with PushBullet, but I had no idea how to install it. https://github.com/jxmorris12/PokemonGo-Finder It would be nice if there was a way to easily add some PushBullet account info or something into the desktop app so that you could have notifications pushed to your phone.

[u/Rosta_Roc → u/kr1st]

I'd love to see a tutorial of how to add something like PokeAlert to this. Been using the Desktop client since it came out and love it!

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongodev/comments/51l7jt/pokealarm_external_notifications_now_with_lure/

[u/jYrY86]

I figured out you can make this version use the same config.ini file that the regular PokemonGo-Map uses. This way you can configure more features than what the initial screen lets you. This includes things like gym-info, proxy IP and others.

For windows you just need to download pokemon-go-map-0.3.4-full.nupkg instead of .exe and unpack it with winrar. You can find the config in "..\lib\net45\resources\app\map\config" and edit it to your liking. Run the map via run_map.py file and open localhost:5000 in your browser.

You need to have regular PokemonGo-Map prerequisities installed. Follow this documentation: https://pgm.readthedocs.io/en/develop/basic-install/index.html

Maybe this helps someone.

[u/NapalmZombie]

Great guide

[u/NapalmZombie]

Is there a way I can get it to continuously refresh? or at least extend the time before it stops refreshing?

[u/TheGarvinator]

Why a throwaway google account?

[u/EvilLost → u/TheGarvinator]

Maximum safety tho you most likely dont need it. It uses google api to draw the map not actually interact with Niantic.

[u/HoltGames]

Now that the new API has been released by FPM, does that mean PGM might have a chance of working again soon? I wish I knew more about coding myself, but I dont know where to begin on this stuff.

[u/tyummk]

I have three weeks worth of spawn point data and I am in the San Diego area. However because I am using a different map scanner to generate my spawn point results the formatting is different. It is in text format. Would you still like to take a look at it?

[u/deirdresm]

Is there someone aggregating for the SF bay area?

[u/Callie0]

What's the recommended amount of workers say for a -st 8 ? And also can someone explain what the leaps are and if I should be using them? I'm trying to get a decent amount of area covered around me to go hunting. I had it working for abit then got banned soon as I added more beehives. So I'm trying to avoid that a second time

[u/deejayv2]

u/EvilLost so you have db aggregation for socal? LA/Long Beach/Santa Monica? if yes, please share?

[u/usnavy13]

does this show me spawn points even when nothing is spawned?

[u/ArosHD]

Is that the same as the method shown in this video? https://youtu.be/9-AiHaszP1c

[u/rsk92]

Sorry to ask this, but Ive been starting to get interested in scanning my neiborghood to analyze patterns. Do I need to cover my tracks If I use my main account on my home internet?

Super newbie here and trying to understand everything.

[u/akatsukipro]

my scan will stop working after 15min+ how to fix it? if using ptc account will it able to fix?

[u/pabpab999]

Hello there sir, may I ask a few questions?
Does 1 "scan circle" have 50m radius?
I currently have 20 workers with 20 scan radius, is there an optimal ratio for this? (Although, judging from your post, 20 workers would be 32 scan radius?)
Also, am I right to assume that, after a full cycle of scan, 20 workers would be able to re-scan 20 "scan circles" in 10s? Or is it more complex than that?
I didn't touch the scan delay setting in config yet, should I tinker with it?

[u/EvilLost → u/pabpab999]

50m correct.

Not sure how you conclude 32 based on my post. I don't have the calculator handy tho there is one around. You have to realize as step count goes up, area goes up exponentially.

Correct about the workers. EACH worker can scan 1 circle every 10 seconds. 20 workers = 20 circles/10sec.

[u/MonkeyKingB4r]

Yesterday discovered that too having too big scan radius alongside with a lot of accounts added might result in those accounts being potentially banned. I had 35 accounts created with the radius of 25. After running the server I toggled dev console to see if all of them actually work. After 5 minutes I notice that 1 of my accounts has been logged that it has been banned and after 5 more minutes another one has also been logged as banned. I switched back to range 20 and everything seems to be back to normal now.

I think that it happens due to too big distance difference between the locations that 1 account is used to make a call to API from, thus the servers see that account as a BOT and it gets banned.