BetFair Video
For markets that have a BetFair supplied live video, there will be a new icon in the Market & API Status window. Clicking on this icon will bring up a condensed version of BetFair’s live video web page.
NOTE, BetFair video can be very slow, and can lock up the Toy while trying to load videos.Select an event in the le hand window to view.
Traded and Available
The Traded and Available window shows the various amounts of money that have been traded or are available at the various odds for the selec on you currently have your mouse over. In addi on it also shows the amounts looking to Back and Lay at SP. Once a market is closed for be ng the window will just show the traded amounts and the prices at which they were traded. When rolled up in the Main Info Bar the header displays the current display se ng and the number of different prices that there are amounts currently available at or that have been traded. This varies depending on what display se ng you have selected as shown below. By right clicking on the header it brings up the various op ons for this window. Horizontal Grid Lines ‐ turns on/off the horizontal grid lines Ver cal Grid Lines ‐ turns on/off the ver cal grid lines
Traded and Available ‐ displays all of the amounts that have been traded or are available at the various prices Traded ‐ displays all of the amounts that have been traded or are available at the various prices Available ‐ displays the amounts that are available at the various prices SP ‐ displays the amounts that are wan ng to be matched at SP and the minimum odds at which the Back bets want to be matched at and the maximum odds at which the Lay bets want to be matched at
API Se ngs Manager
The API Se ngs Manager allows you to control various different aspects of how many and how o en calls are made to the Be air API. The API Se ngs Manager is accessed from the right click op ons on the header of the Main Info Bar.
The calls that are made have been broken down into 5 different categories:
Bets ‐ the informa on rela ng to your bets for a market, both matched and unmatched
Prices ‐ the informa on rela ng to the amounts wai ng to back and lay. This varies depending on the se ng used on the Ladder for Price Display. If Standard or Hybrid is selected it refers to the front three back and lay prices. If Complete is selected it refers to all of the prices, this requires a lot more informa on to be downloaded each call which is not suitable for slower internet connec ons and those on limited download allowances Complete Prices in Hybrid mode ‐ the amounts wai ng to back and lay outside of the front three prices, i.e. full market depth, when Hybrid Price Display is selected on the Ladder. For people with slow internet connec ons and those on limited download allowances it should not be set low i.e. less than 1000ms
Traded Volume ‐ the informa on rela ng to traded volumes
External Bets ‐ How o en to poll for bets made external to the applica on. The default is 10 seconds. This saves on bandwith & weighted calls if you only use this applica on for be ng.
Account Funds ‐ the informa on rela ng to your balance. If a change is made to a bet, i.e. a bet is submi ed, altered or matched the balance will be updated automa cally
Call Frequency
How o en each of the calls is made can be changed using the drop down boxes and altering the me in milliseconds from 150ms to 20,000ms. This allows the speed at which calls are made to be tailored to the kind of market you are trading and your internet connec on.
MPC
The MPC {Maximum Parallel Calls} works by limi ng the number of calls that are sent to the Be air API un l a response is received.
Further customisa on can be made by altering the MPC se ng for each category using the drop down boxes; these can be set between 1 and 5.
For example, with the MPC set to 1 for Bets with a refresh rate of 250ms, a call will be made to the Be air API once every 250ms to retrieve the informa on rela ng to your bets. If however, a response is not received within the 250ms no further calls will be sent un l the ini al response is received.
If the MPC was set to 3, a call will be made every 250ms for the Bets informa on. If however, a response is not received to the first call within 250ms a second call will be made. If no response is received to the second call within 250ms a third call will be made. If there was no response to the third call no further calls would be sent out un l a response was received to one of the three calls upon which a further call would be made.
This helps to ensure much be er running of the program and smoother informa on flow. The default se ngs for MPC should be suitable for most applica on usage. For slow broadband connec ons, {< 1MBs} an MPC of 1 is recommended for all calls.
Menu Op ons
By right clicking on the header of the window the following menu op ons are displayed:
Restore Default Se ngs ‐ by clicking this the API Se ngs Manager will reset to the default se ngs
Max Weighted Calls Per Second ‐ limits the number of data requests from Be air per second. This can be set between 5 and 20 The default se ngs are: This means that 11 calls are made each second when Hybrid Price Display is selected on the ladder: Bets ‐ 4 calls/sec (one call every 250ms) Prices ‐ 5 calls/sec (one call every 200ms) Complete Prices in Hybrid mode ‐ 1 call/sec (one call every 1000ms) Traded Volume ‐ 1 call/sec (one call every 1000ms) Be air Weighted Call Charging
Be air impose an addi onal charge if you make more than 20 weighted calls per second to their API. The applica on restricts the number of calls per second to Be air, however your Be air 20 calls per second allowance is for all applica ons you are running & logged into, including the Be air website. Go over this amount and you will be charged. Full details of
these charges can be found in sec on 5 on the Be air Charges Page
Running the applica on for a single market using the factory se ngs above uses a maximum of 11 calls per second. This is well below the 20 calls per second. {NB Account Funds calls do not count towards your call allowance.} With the program it is possible to have more than one market loaded at once. However, the applica on will not exceed 20 calls per second. This is because the ac ve market (the market displayed in the header of the Main Info Bar) will take precedence and the calls will be made for that market first. The remaining calls will be shared between any other markets you have open. For example, with Max Weighted Calls Per Second set to 19 and using the default se ngs, there are 8 calls per second le over, the other markets loaded will share these remaining 8 calls.
If the Max Weighted Calls Per Second was set to 11 and the default factory se ngs were used there would be no le over calls per second and therefore the other markets loaded would not refresh. It is therefore important when trading on mul ple markets that your se ngs for one market do not exceed your Max Weighted Calls Per Second.
Audio Alerts Manager
The Audio Alerts Manager window is where you control the various audio alerts for the so ware. It is accessed from the right click op ons on the header of the Main Info Bar. In total there are eleven alerts When market is suspended When market is turned In‐Play When a bet error message is displayed 5 mer alerts 3 Bet match alerts Audio Alerts Manager Window with right click op ons Switch Alerts On & Off
In order to turn off an alert you click on the Stop/Go bu on. When an alert is turned off the Stop/Go bu on will say ‘Go’, the alert will be shaded red, the drop down menus will be greyed out and the test bu on will not display, as shown above.
Changing the Alert Audio File
Click on the Browse bu on and then select the file on your computer that you wish to use. The loca on and name of the current sound file can be seen to the right of the Browse bu on. To test what the audio alert sounds like you click on the Test bu on. {NB. It should be noted that only .wav files can be used.}
Timer Alerts
The mer alerts can be set rela ve to the Be air supplied market start me.
To change the me of an alert you use the drop down menus. As shown in the above image it is possible to set alerts to go off a er the scheduled start me as well as before.
Colour Scheme Manager
The Colour Scheme Manager allows you to change a number of applica on colours.
To change a colour, click on its text and a colour dialog will appear.
Above you can see the colour for “Bet Info Separator” has been changed from black to white. Repeat for as many colours as required & close the window when finished.
Right Click Op ons are...