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In some cases the whole internet connection will be lost, so sending a Telegram message will not work. The process should be terminated, but the Watchdog should try to stay alive and resend the Telegram message until succesfully delivered. Ony problem is how to distinguish between misconfigured (or missing) Telegram settings and lost internet connection. Will have to check http status codes.

Proper error handling is almost non-existing at the moment. Especially killing the processes "CoherentUI_Host" or the client itself will cause a panic and crash the program.

New feature, Low necessity:

I thought it could be nice to have an option, maybe a toggle button, to set all Black desert processes (including any CoherentUI_Host.exe instance) to low priority at once to further reduce their weight on system resources.

I don't know if it is possible to detect if BDO is minimized, if it is possible then it would be great to have an option to apply low priority automatically when the application gets minimized, and also restore it to normal priority as soon as it is not minimized anymore.

Add an integer penalty score that gets raised for each iteration the process is running, but disconnected. This is to avoid certain circumstances where the process is only temporarily "offline", e.g. when switching channels. The user must provide a penalty threshold value that must be reached to finally execute the exit conditions.

suggested by u/Xytech_

BDO spawns a couple of CoherentUI_Host.exe processes, which are reported to be consuming too much RAM and/or have abnormal CPU usage. Maybe add another option to also find and kill all of these processes.

See reddit thread for reference.

Suggested by 7h4nt4zm on r/blackdesertonline

BlackDesert64.exe runs with elevated administration rights, which is why BDO Watchdog is not able to kill the process; unless it is started with elevated rights as well. Will need to figure out a way to have the compiled exe ask for elevated rights by default.

Add option to also send a timestamp in the Telegram message.

Suggested by u/itsprime on reddit

The application detects fine if the process is running or not, but it doesn't alert when the game dies after it has been running & connected before.

This should probably be fixed.

A notification doesn't have to be sent when it is first detected the game isn't running, but it should be when it closes after it has been up before.

For some reason the checkboxes always return false.

Option to minimize to tray would be really nice.

Resources

• Urzas World Boss Timer
• Simple web scraper

Expected behavior:

• Parse the boss timer page every X seconds and send a Telegram message if a spawn window opened

Add an actionbutton that sends a test message to check whether the Telegram bot is working or not. This way the user does not need to wait for or provoke a disconnect.