vaCentral Status

[JareBearPilot]

Is there anywhere I can check the status of vaCentral? My VA has over 6,000 PIREPs waiting to be sent and I wanted to check if vaCentral was up and it's an actual error on my end or if vaCentral isn't up and running right now.

[mischka]

vacentral has been dead for a while.. but there's an alternative now, which is actually better: 

 

[JareBearPilot]

22 minutes ago, mischka said:

vacentral has been dead for a while.. but there's an alternative now, which is actually better: 

 

Thanks for letting me know about this. I've made the changes to use this, but I keep getting an "authentication failed" error from the server when trying to send PIREPs. Ideas?

[flyalaska]

Go in your local.config.php and under the VACentral, change true to false. That will stop showing the pireps needing to be sent on your admin side.

[JareBearPilot]

11 minutes ago, flyalaska said:

Go in your local.config.php and under the VACentral, change true to false. That will stop showing the pireps needing to be sent on your admin side.

Thanks for this suggestion, but I would prefer to send our info to VirtualAirlines.EU if possible.

[mischka]

Will look into this tomorrow morning and PM you

[shakamonkey88]

14 hours ago, JareBearPilot said:

Thanks for letting me know about this. I've made the changes to use this, but I keep getting an "authentication failed" error from the server when trying to send PIREPs. Ideas?

Getting the same error - any solution?

[mischka]

1 hour ago, shakamonkey88 said:

Getting the same error - any solution?

two conditions must be met: 

1) you must change the apikey in your config file. If you have done this and it still doesn't work, please PM me with the relevant lines in your config file

2) The site_url variable in your config file must be exactly the same as the one you specified in your control panel at virtualairlines.eu

if it still doesn't work just PM me and we'll figure it out. 

[JareBearPilot]

1 hour ago, mischka said:

2) The site_url variable in your config file must be exactly the same as the one you specified in your control panel at virtualairlines.eu

This fixed it for me. Also, a majority of my PIREPs are exporting fine, but I still have a handful of them that fail when trying to send. Any ideas/recommendations?

Edited October 19, 2017 by JareBearPilot

[mischka]

2 minutes ago, JareBearPilot said:

This fixed it for me. Also, a majority of my PIREPs are exporting fine, but I still have a handful of them that fail when trying to send. Any ideas/recommendations?

Splendid! As for the pireps that don't send, how many are they?  

[JareBearPilot]

I had 62,000+ PIREPs to send, so that's taking a while. I don't have an exact count, but I would estimate every 15-20th PIREP is failing. If I restart the sending process, they still fail, too.

Edited October 19, 2017 by JareBearPilot

[mischka]

well 62000 is a huuuuge amount and the engine can't handle it all in one go. remember that in normal operations you'd send just a few at at time.

 

If you want you could export it to a CSV and mail it to me? 

Edited October 19, 2017 by mischka

[JareBearPilot]

That's a fair point. I'll let it finish exporting as much as it can, and then I'll see if I can get those failed ones to go.

[mischka]

I had it too when I exported the pireps from my own airline, and to be honest I'm not sure how I resolved it *blush*. But if 5% of your pireps cant be exported, itll be around 3000 of them so I'll have to find some solution

[JareBearPilot]

Just now, mischka said:

I had it too when I exported the pireps from my own airline, and to be honest I'm not sure how I resolved it *blush*. But if 5% of your pireps cant be exported, itll be around 3000 of them so I'll have to find some solution

Lol, I'll let you know when I have a total and we'll see what we can come up with.

[topher2880]

Hi Mischka,

I have 2x Va's which I tried to join today and havent received a confirmation that ive even attempted to get an account. Is this manually done or auto-generated confirmation email?

 

Sorry for the hijack but just found this thread and excited for a VAcentral replacement

[mischka]

2 hours ago, topher2880 said:

Hi Mischka,

I have 2x Va's which I tried to join today and havent received a confirmation that ive even attempted to get an account. Is this manually done or auto-generated confirmation email?

 

Sorry for the hijack but just found this thread and excited for a VAcentral replacement

Hello

The email is generated automatically, but this wasn't the problem. The problem was that I recently installed SSL and the captcha was loading on a non-secure connection (http) so chrome and probably other browsers, didn't display the captcha.

I have now remedied this issue and you should see the captcha. Once you create the account you will see a message your account was created and you get an email (check your spam) sorry for the inconvenience!

[JareBearPilot]

Mischka, all of the sudden I'm not able to export the remaining 20,000 PIREPs or so. Every time I click on "Export to vaCentral", it just loads and loads. It never gives me an error or failed message either. Any idea why this might be?

[mischka]

1 hour ago, JareBearPilot said:

Mischka, all of the sudden I'm not able to export the remaining 20,000 PIREPs or so. Every time I click on "Export to vaCentral", it just loads and loads. It never gives me an error or failed message either. Any idea why this might be?

last request I can see is yesterday 20:55:15. can you PM me please., if you have tried afterwards?

Edited October 26, 2017 by mischka

[topher2880]

14 hours ago, mischka said:

Hello

The email is generated automatically, but this wasn't the problem. The problem was that I recently installed SSL and the captcha was loading on a non-secure connection (http) so chrome and probably other browsers, didn't display the captcha.

I have now remedied this issue and you should see the captcha. Once you create the account you will see a message your account was created and you get an email (check your spam) sorry for the inconvenience!

2X VA signed sealed and delivered... FlyAsiaVa & Susi Air Virtual

Thanks for that Mischka

[mischka]

9 hours ago, topher2880 said:

2X VA signed sealed and delivered... FlyAsiaVa & Susi Air Virtual

Thanks for that Mischka

thanks for joining, and welcome!

[CPC900]

So, is this the way everyone is sending their pilot reports now?!  Or are some waiting for the new phpvms4??!!

Bruce

Edited November 4, 2017 by CPC900

[mischka]

2 hours ago, CPC900 said:

So, is this the way everyone is sending their pilot reports now?!  Or are some waiting for the new phpvms4??!!

Bruce

19 VA's submitted around 112.000 pireps  and 66000 schedules so far ... does that answer your question?

 

[DesComm]

In checking your site, unless I'm blind, "How does a person see the stats of the various airlines?".  Your Blog mentions pilots are seeking active airlines.  Again where are the STATS? That was one of the major benefits of VA Central.  Also a FYI in registering there were many SQL errors, which resulted in us changing our description. 

[mischka]

4 minutes ago, DesComm said:

In checking your site, unless I'm blind, "How does a person see the stats of the various airlines?".  Your Blog mentions pilots are seeking active airlines.  Again where are the STATS? That was one of the major benefits of VA Central.  Also a FYI in registering there were many SQL errors, which resulted in us changing our description. 

If you go to "Airlines" in the menu bar, you'll get a list of all the airlines, including stats like submitted pireps, last flight and others. Note that these stats only show when you submit pireps/schedules.

As for the sql errors: if you notice any bugs just shoot me a PM on this forum or use the contact form on the site, so I can have a look at it. I'm happy to help!