Settings Guide

created by Kie723, slightly edited by seikur0

The settings are pretty straightforward, there's a line for a comment which explains each setting. I'll go through each one here as well:

(1) Language

Straight forward, english/german supported.

(2) Backup Size

File size in MB, after which it backs up the log file and starts a new one. Just leave as 10.

(3) Scan Range

This is your scan radius in meters from the center point, e.g. home or work. The default is 3300, which is pretty large. You'll need about 70 PTC accounts to do this accurately. It depends on how rural your area is, rural areas take longer. If you have 30 accounts, you should set it to a radius of around 1500 instead. Note: If you don't want to make too many accounts but still want a large radius around your center point, it's easy to do but will just require more runs, so just use google maps to calculate how far out from your home point you want to go. 3300 is good because it's ~10-15mins drive away.

(4) Scan Interval

Leave at 600, for smartscan it won't matter anymore and for pre smartscan you likely want it to be at that value.

(5) Google API Key

If you haven't got one, you'll need one. Get one from here: Google Api Key You'll need the one, that says browser key. Once you have one, paste it within the quotations.

(5.1) Icons

Up to you, pick one of the options.

(6) Pokemon to exclude

Easy enough, you can change this later if you want. Note that the tool includes its own filter, but this one is a global one so you don't have to use the filter.

(7) Icon scale

Leave at 1.0 unless you want them bigger or smaller. For the standard icons, 1.0 is good, for the others you'll probably want to lower that to maybe 0.6 or so.

(8) Mobile scale

Leave at 0.6 or tweak it, if you want it to be smaller/larger on mobiles.

(9) Notifications

The first bit lets you select pokemon to be notified of. The next couple of bits are about Pushbullet and Telegram. I've set up Pushbullet so I'll give a quick summary here: a) Download pushbullet on mobile and setup. Download the app for windows as well. Can just use Google account to login. b) Once logged in, you need to generate a pushbullet API key, which you can do by going to Pushbullet Api Key c) Paste the API key into the quotation marks in the usersettings file. d) Now you'll get a notification on your phone when a pokemon you've selected appears (and a google maps link to the location).

(10) Scan Number

Leave at 0, which means, it'll just continuously scan.

(11) Simultaneous login:

Leave at true

(12) Webserver port

The default is 8000, but I suggest changing to a different one, for example 1234. You'll have to forward the port in your router. It's not too difficult to do, there's a bunch of guides around. If you're having problems seeing the map, most likely issue is you haven't forwarded correctly, or a separate program (e.g. windows firewall) is blocking it.

(13) PTC accounts

Main thing here is enter the username and passwords for all your accounts. You can copy/paste down under the last one to add more accounts. Just make sure all but the last one end in "}," The other thing you need to add is latitude and longitude for your center point, which you can get from Google Maps by clicking on the location you wish to be your center point. Profiles with the same id form a scan group and use the settings from the first profile with that id. (Proxies can be set individually though and would overwrite that.) You can use this python script to bring many accounts into the required format.