Does anyone know why https://andrescavallin.github.io/lichess-dgt-boards-browser/ Has stoped working?
i'm getting this error message. 404 There isn't a GitHub Pages site here.
Hello @StickCity007 yes I shut it down since it is now hosted inside Lichess on this link that has all recent fixes:
https://lichess.org/dgt
Let me know how it goes and post your comments here.
@Bracco thanks for testing. Yes someday, we can do a Board tournament and have a virtual beer. When the beta is over it will be the perfect time. I will improve on the text to speech since adding a space between the letters and the numbers will fix the issue, so it will be a simple thing, thanks for the contribution. Regarding slow moves, I will reduce the amount of text logged to keep the browser running smooth.
The first beer was offered by @BaronVonChickenpants requesting support for multiple open games... and guess what.... Today I started working on it .... The board will be attached automatically to the game that matches the position on Lichess. So for example if you have several correspondence games it will attach to the correct one assuming they have different positions and the position matches the board when you click play.
I am in the testing phase, I guess during next week I will publish that functionality and let you know, I will try to improve the speed during the end game and the text to speech to add a pause between letters and numbers.
Development roadmap is as follow v1.0.6:
1) Complete support for multiple open games
2) Fix issue on text to speech regarding separation of letters and numbers
3) Reduce log size to mitigate slow moves after midgame
v1.0.7
4) Better multi language support
5) Incorrect board setup detection (it happens to me a lot that I misplace a piece during setup)
One minor suggestion: would it be possible to easily incorporate the DGT page into the main Lichess site so that a separate open tab would not be necessary? It's working fine, and I suppose if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but maybe a 'DGT Board Enabled' option could be programmed into Lichess instead in a future update to 'simplify' the detection? If it is too much extra work, please ignore my suggestion.
Hi @andrescavallin I found the information later on and now have it working. Thank you for your reply.
@AV-57 Yes, that would be a very good idea! So that it would be easy to find!
@AV-57 How are you?
Yes the idea is that after BETA is over the feature will be integrated into Lichess more deeply, for example once Lichess knows you have the board it can offer a button/link to "Play with Board" on all games. We don't have a design yet on how it will work.
By the way, have you experienced the abandoned game issue again? I have not, but I am not 100% sure it is fixed, and since you reported it multiple times I was wondering.
12 games in a row and counting with no abandoned games issue...
I played another 10 games during the last three days without any issues. This look really good now. Great work !
@andrescavallin Do you think it will be possible to transfer the time to the DGT Board so that it can be displayed on a chess clock that is attached to the DGT board ? Not sure if this is supported by the DGT LiveChess Application. But if it is it might be possible to implement that.
@everest3 glad to hear that.
Regarding using the DGT clock as a display, I don't think it will be possible. You can have the App on a mobile phone close to the chessboard, and I think a "Board Companion Mode" can be created so the board is smaller and the time controls are bigger. That is what I think will be the future.
I don't think a browser app can control the clock unless there is an intermediate app like LiveChess handling low level communications. The version of the clock that is based on the Raspberry Pi can, in theory, be programmed for that, but seems out of score at this moment.
@andrescavallin Thanks for tagging me in! For some reason I don't get notifications of new replies here unless someone tags me so I had missed all the new work you have done. Looks great, and I'll give it some test games when I am next able.
BTW,. my Beer/Coffee offer was not conditional on any changes being implemented, it was more of a Thank You for implementing this here. Let me know how I can get some beer or coffee vouchers to you!
Regarding the multiple game thing, my issue was mainly that when I had a correspondence game ongoing the DGT interface kept picking that up to play even though I was in the middle of a live game. Maybe just making the DGT interface give priority to ongoing live games if the user is in one would be good enough?
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