Betfair Coupons, plug-in, Help!!!
Posted in General Betting by Lourdesbfe
Hello everyone
My name is Lourdes, took a few days with BFE and I am from Avila in Spain.
Even I could not make a single bet because from the beginning I had problems with the software. These are small problems but I feel insecure.
My biggest disappointment comes from the plug-in Betfair coupons, because this tool was the main reason, along with "closing all positions" that I acquired BFE.
I do not work Betfair Coupons, I followed the instructions of Stefan, but still not working.
Ask me whether this problem happens only to me or if there are more users with the same problem.
I use Window-7, but I do not work with XP.
Could be due to regional settings?
Forgive my English.
Thank you very much.
Best regards
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Have a look at on this screenshot. I changed region and language to Spanish on my computer running Windows 7 64 bit OS, and as you can see all works fine. Slovak language uses , for decimal symbol exactly like Spanish, and this is definitely not a problem because any data the program reads from betfair web site are in English format for numbers so the program uses CultureInfo("en-GB") to convert text of decimal numbers to decimal number.
When I ask you to show me what you do on your computer, you ignored my email.
I think you run antivirus software which blocks any Internet communication bfexplorer makes. Similar problems were reported by users using Norton Antivirus, NA blocks communication with betfair servers for such users so it could be your case with betfair coupons.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Unsolved mystery!
Hi Stefan:
I contacted eight people, including relatives and friends, each of them have downloaded the program and has used my Betfair user to enter the software had different operating systems, they had disconnected the antivirus and firewall.
The result is that none has worked plugin Coupons Betfair.
Stefan, I'm tired of this topic, I appreciate your efforts and I think I can survive without the plugin.
Best regards.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
What I can suggest you is to open betfair web page and change your language from Spanish to English. Then open bfexplorer and ensure yourself that bfexplorer displays English names for events and markets. Then try the Betfair Coupons plugin.
If there is some problem with language version of betfair data then you will find it out. I am not able to test this part on my computer because betfair servers could respond with different language mutation according to users IP address.
I asked one Czech user and he has no problem with Betfair Coupons plugin. From one French user living in Denmark I did not receive any reply so I will see what is his experience with this plugin later.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
I can confirm that your problem is with your language settings you use on betfair web page. Change it to English and your Betfair Coupons plug-in will work.
It is because in Spanish version betfair uses Spanish word for Coupons. I will try to change the code if possible so for different language versions this plugin will uses only English language version of events and market names.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
I have just released the latest version of Bfexplorer PRO fixing this issue for non English users.
Bfexplorer PRO in many other parts of the code uses English names, so if you have any problems with Trade opportunity lookup tool then switch your main language on betfair web page to English.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Hi Stefan:
I changed the language on Betfair, but still did not work.
But to download the update and it worked.
Just a little problem, the schedule of events is one hour beyond its real time.
For example, Coupons Betfair starting time of an event are 22:00, but actually begins one hour before -21:00 hours.
Stefan, I thank you most sincerely for the interest and dedication he has shown in solving this problem.
Thank you very much for everything.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Try the latest version I have just uploaded into the server:
http://bfexplorer.net/Downloads.aspx
Betfair uses different language versions of web pages, so my fix is to make the betfair server return English language version only by setting cookies parameters. I am not quite sure if it helps in your case, try scores and form statistics (Use the context menu to open) and let me know if it works correctly in Spain.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Stefan
The issue is caused by the fact that the Betfair website data is feeding back BST, whereas the API supplies GMT. When using the ToLocalTime() conversion this results in the match times being 1 hr out in the summer.
If you are using .NET 3.5 you can cure it with this....
if (System.TimeZoneInfo.FindSystemTimeZoneById("GMT Standard Time").IsDaylightSavingTime(DateTime.UtcNow))
Change by 1 Hour
Paul
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Paul
This is not an issue in this case, a time is converted into UTC and then to the local time of the user.
You know that I am from Slovakia and my time zone is the same as the Spanish but he reports a problem and in my case all times are correct, we are both in the same time zone.
Stefan
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Spain, UTC +1
Stefan:
Spain are in UTC +1 as shown in the attached image.
It may be that the error.
Regards.
Lourdes
PS. I am unable to add the image.
Stefan, I am sending you e-mail.