Topic: [BTB] The BitBar Information Thread - page 23. (Read 180352 times)

It would have been kinda boring. 7 cameras around my house. Card drive by, some times somebody walking by. parked cars...
Neighbor did stab a person on the parking strip once, but that was a while ago.

Depending on how badly mangled the DNS records got, it could take 24-48 hours to get straightened out again.
Still would like to know what went wrong...

glad you figured out what it was and that it wasn't serious. WAIT.. So if I woulda DLed that dvr client I could have been watching your cams???    


I'll check the sites again later and report back what I see. right now they are "taking too long to respond" and "can't be reached".

I do believe you, I do. I just can't duplicate the problem. I even installed chrome on my tablet to see what would happen.

Earlier today, I connected one of my security systems to my network. It's on a different IP address then my servers (of course) and should only be connecting via that one address. - It requires a dvr client plugin to show properly - that is why I believe you.
(strange that the favicon was correct)

I remoted in to my computer at work - and there it was, big blue screen

I double checked the network settings, everything look fine.
I unplugged my cameras.

It might take a while for the IP caches to time out, before you can get there.
Thanks for the heads-up.

I'm serious. Something is wrong. I was at my mother's house today visting my uncle and went to show him Bitbar.co it went to the address BUT it wanted me to activate an active x and then tried to dl a dvr client player onto his computer. i checked the site with my mother's computer/ but same network and same thing. When I got home I checked both the ltb site and btb and they are both still all weird. THe background that shows up is blue with a white box and an icon in the middle. Under the icon it says "The server closed the connection without sending any data" Also, on the tab for the web page it says "Web Client for DVR" In the address bar it still says "bitbar.co" This explanation is the same for litebar.co. I have tried other sites and all other sites that I have tried go to where they are supposed to go so I don't think it is on my end or my mother's end or my uncles all at the same time. Just tried it on my gf's computer and same results.

I'm not seeing it.

I think your web server has been compromised. ..Got some wak s**t happening at both LTB and BTB official sites. They are trying to make me DL a dvd player or some crap.

I probably should have added the website http://bitbar.co/

thanks man  its what i meant i couldn't find  git links all i saw above was google drive link

btw Atom  is a nice  open source cross platform text editor

I didn't know that about wordpad. I'm glad I found out about notepad++ though. It helped me through a bunch of boring projects for a C++ course.

I thought linux users made their own 
github source
Ubuntu bitbar-qt
Ubuntu bitbard


if you want to check out the skins wallet:
github source
Ubuntu bitbar-skins-qt

mandatory update and no linux wallet? or im missing something ?

yes. It works well.
I was just going with the normal windows programs - keep it simple (as possible)
Besides, once you use wordpad, it puts in the missing 'windows' end of line  (carriage return or line feed, don't remember) and then you can use what ever editor you want.

Have you ever tried notepad++ ? It's open source and free..and pretty dang awesome. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

I bet you will love it.

 Here is the link for anyone else interested in Notepad++

so the skins wallet doesn't work as it should on windows.
here is the fix for now:

make a directory c:/bitbar

unzip the skins.zip file to c:/bitbar
note: you might end up with skins/skins.  if you do, move the files and images to the first skins.
you should end up with something like:

c:/bitbar/skins-|
                   [] images
                   default.qss
                   midnight.qss
                   pnw.qss

then you will have to edit the qss files default, and pnw  - left click open with - wordpad (notepad squishes it all up with no end of line returns)

change the line that looks like:
  border-image: url(skins/images/pnw-background.jpg) 0 0 0 0 stretch stretch;

and change it to:
  border-image: url(c:/bitbar/skins/images/pnw-background.jpg) 0 0 0 0 stretch stretch;


while you are at it, paste this to the file:
QMenuBar::item
{
  background-color: transparent;
}

Once done and saved, use the browse button in the skins page of your browser and select c:/bitbar/skins
then hit the find button to reload the list and double click on the pnw skin - it SHOULD change the background to clouds.

note: feel free to copy one of the qss files and edit it.  you don't need to restart the wallet for the changes to take place.
You can just check one of the check boxes (or uncheck it) and the wallet will reload.

I agree somewhat on the over engineering.

I don't understand why misbehaving wallets aren't banned permanently or until they meet certain criteria which would then after, allow them back on the network.

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Could it be that the og Dev thought there would be over 120 nodes on the network at any given time?

Waiting for 520 confirms does take forever right now but what if there were over 120+ nodes on the network? Right now, 520 confirms is way over ambitious in my opinion and may even be a deterrent for use of BTB.  A person might not want to wait that long especially because of how fast as it's value can change on the exchanges. Someone might be mining it because it is profitable over, say LTC. BUt by the time that mined amount is mature it might no longer be profitable and selling could be at a loss. So there is risk involved that way and said person might feel like a "bagholder". Which is not so good. Sure we want people to hold bars because that keeps them rare but we NEED people to spend/use them also.

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I like the diff adjust after every block. I wish more coins were like that! I feel an unfair advantage can be had otherwise for an amount of time.
 For instance, when I jumped onto the LTB network before anyone else did... before Spidersbox pushed out the first new updated wallet (I took a risk mining the wrong chain). I found literally 46 blocks the first minute, the count went higher per minute before it went down until the diff was adjusted. But only slowed down slowly also as the diff kept being adjusted. I felt like I hit the jackpot. Alerts for blocks found wouldn't stop, I had to turn the sound down. ching! ching! ching!ching!ching cha-ching! lol

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PoW/PoS is good too

anytime! I'm here to help...and promote BTB 

If you build it, they will come....


Sounds like part of the original over engineering of Bitbar, with emphasis on security.

520 Confirmations over 120
Difficulty Adjust every block
Pos/Pow hybrid
ect?

Always welcome.
It's good to have lot's of information in this thread for new people to read - all we need are new people 

@ Spidersbox, and userpike

Thank you both for your replies and help,I love that we have a good dev and a good community that keeps BTB strong

Go BitBar!!!  

@ userpike,yes I am on windows wallet 

I think if you use "-connect" instead of "-addnode" it might help out with the sync issue. I have to say that I often delete my peers list but probably wouldn't have to if i just used "connect". But it doesn't seem to hurt anything even when i am solo mining on the network to just leave it alone. It's annoying though right? After I delete the peers list and run the wallet again it shows as synced almost instantaneously.

Also, don't mind what the green bar says on the bottom of the wallet, look in the console and the blockcount should match the block explorer or extremely close. That's what matters I believe.
I can still solo mine while it's "syncing" this way. I think the green bar shows up when a node shows a higher blockcount. So one on a wrong chain.

I kinda feel like this is a bug in the wallet, that it'll do this. But this happens to many different coins also. But it still is in sync if you check in the console - just doesn't appear as such because of the green bar at the bottom. The same thing is happening in the LTB wallet also and in 42 wallet I notice it happens in also. I've seen in happen in the Franco wallet also.

oh ya are you using a windows wallet? lol i wrote above in the perspective of a windows version wallet because that's what I use.