Announcing: EveKit Applications! First up, an EveMon clone…
TL;DR you can now monitor your character skill queues within EveKit. We’d love for you to give it a try and send us feedback. We’re also interested in hearing about other applications you think would be valuable.
EveKit was originally designed to be a backend for other third party applications. The idea was that EveKit would handle the hard work of retrieving and retaining account data (including complete history) so that other tools could focus on application functionality (and nice interfaces). jEveAssets is one example of a third party desktop application that can be configured to use EveKit as a backend. Much to our surprise, however, there are no web applications (that we’re aware of) that use EveKit as a backend. So we decided to start writing some…
Starting today, if you login to EveKit, you’ll see a new “Applications” menu on the left hand side. If you expand this menu you’ll see one application called “Skill Monitor”. “Skill Monitor” is a simple EveMon clone. You can’t use it to plan training or other fancy stuff (like the real EveMon), but you can use it to view your trained skills, your current queue, and when your queue will finish.
Using “Skill Monitor” is very simple:
- You need to have an EveKit character account for any account you wish to monitor.
- Your character accounts should enable at least the following scopes:
- esi-clones.read_implants.v1
- esi-skills.read_skills.v1
- esi-skills.read_skillqueue.v1
- esi-wallet.read_character_wallet.v1
- Your character accounts should have at least one EveKit access key which enables access to:
- account balance
- character sheet
- skills
Clicking the ‘+’ button in the application will show a list of all EveKit accounts eligible for monitoring. If something is missing, then you’re either missing a needed scope or a needed EveKit access key permission. NOTE: if you’re creating an EveKit character account for the first time, or adding a missing scope to an existing account, then it will take EveKit 5-10 minutes to start synchronizing the new data.
Once you add an account, you should see a very EveMon-like view of your character’s skills and skill queue. You can use the tabs to see a detailed view of each character. You can use the ‘x’ near the characters name in the tabs to stop monitoring a character.
Whether you’re an existing EveKit user, or trying it out for the first time, we’d love for you to try out our EveMon clone and send us feedback. We’re also interested in what other applications would be useful.
Fly safe!