Item Collector doesn't seem to be collecting

[Dash728]

Hi I'm trying to collect some items that I know are missing from the DB. I walked through installing the proper items from the walkthrough, but when I launch the item collector it get stuck on the "listening on device" step:

Waiting for client...
Client Version: 2.5.2.3
Lore Op Code: 0x7f1c
Link Method is: 1
Zone Op Codes: |0x7e1a|0x2ac1|0x37fa|
Book Op Code: 0x1ee6
Link Op Code: 0x4a8e
Adv Op Code: 0x43b1
Item Ignore Op Code: 0x0
Recipe Op Code: 0x999999
RecipeList Op Code: 0x999990
Mode is 1
Autodection is 1
Allow Item Discovery 1
Item Preview Op Code: 0x7f1c
Item Reward Op Code: 0x1e21
Server Operations Completed...
KEEPDBFILE 0
Deleting Items.db
ARQ CACHE IS SET TO 2048
PROCESSZONE ITEMS IS SET TO 0
ItemStore: items.db
Listening on '\Device\NPF_{3C4799D9-DF39-4D42-B3CE-07047785728E} : name:wlan1 (Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz) on /192.168.1.75 /2600:1702:56ee:8a00:0:0:0:39 /2600:1702:56ee:8a00:96b1:8be9:ca17:21ad /2600:1702:56ee:8a00:c2f:91fb:f53:a51c /fe80:0:0:0:fff4:8dca:2b89:6f1d%wlan1'

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or maybe have the wrong device selected? Any thoughts on how to correct this?

[Deillusional]

Its listening on a wireless network is that how you're connecting to the internet?

Also it will listen from when you zone in everquest.

[Dash728]

Yes, I play on a laptop connected to wifi. I tried zoning several times and nothing seemed to happen. Do I need to do something special with an item to log it?

[Deillusional]

whats the output in errfile.txt and is there anything else after what you see.

Looks like you not got a pcap driver installed.

I recommend

https://npcap.com/

[Dash728]

This is what my errfile.txt says
PacketCapture: loading native library jpcap.. ok
net.sourceforge.jpcap.capture.CaptureDeviceOpenExc eption: Error opening adapter: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (123)
at net.sourceforge.jpcap.capture.PacketCapture.open(N ative Method)
at net.sourceforge.jpcap.capture.PacketCapture.open(P acketCapture.java:63)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.PacketCapture.initialize (PacketCapture.java:130)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.ItemCollect.<init>(ItemC ollect.java:1177)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.ItemCollect.main(ItemCol lect.java:812)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.PacketCapture.setFilter( PacketCapture.java:176)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.ItemCollect.<init>(ItemC ollect.java:1179)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.ItemCollect.main(ItemCol lect.java:812)

I installed the npcap you posted, I had the old wincap installed originally. Nothing shows up after it lists my connection.

[Deillusional]

can you paste your bat file?
and tell me whats in the directory ?

It looks like its not creating a .ini file to monitor the ipaddresses

Create an ipaddreses.ini file with

[IP_FILTER]
COUNT = 1
USE = 1
LOCAL_IP =
IP_1 = 69.174

[OPTIONS]
KEEPDBFILE = 0
ARQCACHE = 2048
PROCESSZONEITEMS = 0


in it.

[Deillusional]

i updated the download to include the ini file that it should create on the fly, if you run in any options it could be an access rights issue it creates ini files to keep track of some data.

I have also attached the zip file to this forumn post.

[Dash728]

Here is the run.bat
set USERNAME=Erod
set DEVICE={3C4799D9-DF39-4D42-B3CE-07047785728E}
#set DEBUG=0xFFFFFF
set DEBUG=0x07
java -jar ItemCollect.jar -debug %DEBUG% %DEVICE% %USERNAME%
@pause

I added that .ini file to the folder as well - there was another .ini file there originally that looked to be the same

[Deillusional]

try DEVICE=number instead in the bat file.

so on load u have

DEVICE=0 is interface: \Device\NPF_Loopback : name:lo (Software Loopback Interface 1) on /127.0.0.1 /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
DEVICE=1 is interface: \Device\NPF_{83CD8D34-3977-444F-92A1-1E6E7D462C3C} : name:lo (Software Loopback Interface 1) on /127.0.0.1 /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
DEVICE=2 is interface: \Device\NPF_{9408EBC0-3FD7-42F0-950D-DAD6E7820CC7} : name:lo (Software Loopback Interface 1) on /127.0.0.1 /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
etc
put DEVICE=<num> of what you trying to capture.

e.g.

DEVICE=2 for the 3rd one I list there.

[Dash728]

Set Device # to 5 which matched up with how the .bat file was seeing the device. Still not getting anything. Latest errtext:

PacketCapture: loading native library jpcap.. ok
net.sourceforge.jpcap.capture.CaptureDeviceOpenExc eption: Error opening adapter: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (123)
at net.sourceforge.jpcap.capture.PacketCapture.open(N ative Method)
at net.sourceforge.jpcap.capture.PacketCapture.open(P acketCapture.java:63)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.PacketCapture.initialize (PacketCapture.java:130)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.ItemCollect.<init>(ItemC ollect.java:1177)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.ItemCollect.main(ItemCol lect.java:812)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.PacketCapture.setFilter( PacketCapture.java:176)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.ItemCollect.<init>(ItemC ollect.java:1179)
at com.eqtoolbox.itemcollect.ItemCollect.main(ItemCol lect.java:812)

[Deillusional]

try device=auto

in the bat file.

[Dash728]

Changed to auto and now it looks like we're getting somewhere:
Listening on '\Device\NPF_Loopback : name:lo (Software Loopback Interface 1) on /127.0.0.1 /0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1'
Added PCL
KEEPDBFILE 0
Filtering local address:
Filtering server addresses:
69.174
Downloading Item Fields Definitions for debug purposes...
Downloading complete
Downloading Bad CharmFiles...
Downloading complete
BAD CHARMS V.0.1 @ 2020-04-20 13:12 UTC
User Name: Erod
Debugging Level: 0x7 (info, warnings, extra info)
ItemCollect based on EQitems on 13th-floor.org
-- Press 'y' to display info when packet is being processed (switch on / off) --
-- Press 'z' to display a count of packets processed --
-- Press 'x' to reset zone counter --
-- Press 'f' to flush the item store --
-- Press 'p' to reset pcap filter --
-- Press 'd' to download latest version --
-- Press 'c' to reupload all charm text info (it will wipe the file when done) --
-- Press 'i' to reload the packet filter (ipaddresses.ini) --
-- Press 'q' to exit --
z
0 processed packets
y
z
0 processed packets

Now the question is should I be seeing packets being processed or will that only happen if it finds new items? I had the game up for about an hour and zoned multiple times