Small little announcement:
Alistral is now (mostly) officially distributed on nix! It won’t be as fast to come out as the GH release, but I’ll try to bump it fast
It was already available before, but not maintained by me.
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Release v0.6.0
Breaking release. Check your scripts !
This release is full of refactors and small command changes. Feel free to consult the help page to see if anything changed
Major features:
- Reworked daily command (now slightly faster) to let the user choose the date to generate the report from
- Improved lookup to be able to select a specific timeframe.
Minor features:
- Added user lookup… That show the listen count of the user. More will come later…
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Hello, reading through this thread, Alistral sounds like the sort of thing I would like to use.
Is there a complete beginners guide anywhere? Like the basic steps to get it running - or what I need to learn first.
Cheers!
That would be nice but I’m too lazy for it. I always get distracted in adding more features than making the docs 
I only got a partial documentation here but the help reference is complete and autogenerated (thanks clap markdown). The app is a cli, so you only need to download the executable and use the cli
If you need specific help you can always message me here, make an issue, or the IRC/Matrix/Discord LB chat. That’ll motivate me to get up and write docs lol.
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Thanks! OK, I need to get au fait with command line - will message you if I have any specific questions once I’ve done that.
If I get it to work, maybe I can write an idiot’s guide…
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Feel free! My docs are just markdown so it’s easy to add some
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I got a similar RUST_BACKTRACE=1 error - how did you fix this please?
My error:
PS C:\Users\c2103\Documents> & “C:\Users\c2103\Documents\alistral-windows.exe”
alistral-windows.exe : e[31mThe application panicked (crashed).e[0m
At line:1 char:1
- & “C:\Users\c2103\Documents\alistral-windows.exe”
-
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (e[31mThe applic... (crashed).e[0m:String) [], RemoteException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError
Message: e[36mcalled Result::unwrap() on an Err value: PoolInitError { source: MigrationError { backtrace: Backtrace [{ fn:
“BaseThreadInitThunk” }, { fn: “RtlUserThreadStart” }], source: VersionMismatch(1) } }e[0m
Location: e[35malistral_cli\src\models\client\mb_db.rse[0m:e[35m33e[0m
Backtrace omitted. Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=1 environment variable to display it.
Run with RUST_BACKTRACE=full to include source snippets.
This error happens when Alistral expect the database to be at version X, but is actually Y, with Y being later than X. Which is… odd. I haven’t made a schema change in a long while.
Are you using v0.6.6? If so, try deleting the C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Alistral folder
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I tried deleting that folder, deleting the .exe and redownloading it.
I no longer get the error message, but I am still unable to open the .exe (nothing happens)
I’ve pasted my commands below if that helps (it is pointing to the correct location). The last line is what I get after I try to open it…
PS C:\Users\c2103> cd C:\Users\c2103\Documents
PS C:\Users\c2103\Documents> & "C:\Users\c2103\Documents\alistral-windows.exe"
PS C:\Users\c2103\Documents>
Oh it’s not an application with an interface. It uses the command line like Elbisaur.
You need to use it like this
"C:\Users\c2103\Documents\alistral-windows.exe" daily
// Or
"C:\Users\c2103\Documents\alistral-windows.exe" stats top recordings
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Awesome, thanks for the tip!
What would this folder be on Linux?
~/.cache/Alistral
So simple that I need to add text to respond lol
Also progress update for those not in the weekly community meeting: I am swamped. I can’t do much work… And when I can I’m trying to make another project to save my friend group from the discord apocalypse.
Hopefully april should be quieter