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Possibly Searching Too Often - keeps changing fort it walks to without catching Pokemon

See original GitHub issue

Expected Behavior

Bot locates a fort, walks to it and collects loot along with any nearby pokemon.

Actual Behavior

Bot begins walking to fort and then emits Possibly searching too often, take a rest. and then picks a new fort to walk to.

It then does this over and over again, see dump below:

2016-08-07 07:34:16,016 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:34:16,244 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Per Capita  - 0.12km (attraction of lure 0.12km)
2016-08-07 07:34:18,205 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Per Capita  - 0.10km (attraction of lure 0.11km)
2016-08-07 07:34:20,237 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Per Capita  - 0.09km (attraction of lure 0.11km)
2016-08-07 07:34:22,274 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Per Capita  - 0.08km (attraction of lure 0.10km)
2016-08-07 07:34:25,080 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Running Pinhead - 0.10km (attraction of lure 0.10km)
2016-08-07 07:34:27,285 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Running Pinhead - 0.08km (attraction of lure 0.08km)
2016-08-07 07:34:29,634 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Running Pinhead - 0.07km (attraction of lure 0.07km)
2016-08-07 07:34:32,235 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Running Pinhead - 0.06km (attraction of lure 0.06km)
2016-08-07 07:34:34,477 [CatchLuredPokemon] [INFO] [lured_pokemon_found] Lured pokemon at fort Running Pinhead (3b716d7483d14ccf8eab6757d0b04a83.16)
2016-08-07 07:34:39,964 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Running Pinhead - 0.05km (attraction of lure 0.05km)
2016-08-07 07:34:42,114 [CatchLuredPokemon] [INFO] [lured_pokemon_found] Lured pokemon at fort Running Pinhead (3b716d7483d14ccf8eab6757d0b04a83.16)
2016-08-07 07:34:47,673 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop Running Pinhead out of range.
2016-08-07 07:34:47,674 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:34:47,679 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Per Capita  - 0.08km (attraction of lure 0.33km)
2016-08-07 07:34:55,201 [CatchLuredPokemon] [INFO] [lured_pokemon_found] Lured pokemon at fort Running Pinhead (3b716d7483d14ccf8eab6757d0b04a83.16)
2016-08-07 07:35:00,504 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Per Capita  - 0.07km (attraction of lure 0.32km)
2016-08-07 07:35:03,290 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Per Capita  - 0.05km (attraction of lure 0.32km)
2016-08-07 07:35:05,440 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Per Capita  - 0.04km (attraction of lure 0.32km)
2016-08-07 07:35:07,994 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop Per Capita  out of range.
2016-08-07 07:35:07,995 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:35:08,222 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [arrived_at_fort] Arrived at fort.
2016-08-07 07:35:08,223 [FollowSpiral] [INFO] [position_update] Walking from (-41.29176189044683, 174.78228744024358, 0) to (-41.29103333290947, 174.77899609590767, 0) (286.669511991 m)
2016-08-07 07:35:10,557 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop The Mover out of range.
2016-08-07 07:35:10,558 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:35:10,784 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Ban Shark Finning - 0.10km (attraction of lure 0.32km)
2016-08-07 07:35:13,088 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Ban Shark Finning - 0.09km (attraction of lure 0.31km)
2016-08-07 07:35:15,121 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Ban Shark Finning - 0.07km (attraction of lure 0.30km)
2016-08-07 07:35:17,148 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Ban Shark Finning - 0.06km (attraction of lure 0.29km)
2016-08-07 07:35:19,398 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Ban Shark Finning - 0.04km (attraction of lure 0.27km)
2016-08-07 07:35:21,741 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop Ban Shark Finning out of range.
2016-08-07 07:35:21,741 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:35:21,981 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Park Graffiti Wall - 0.12km (attraction of lure 0.26km)
2016-08-07 07:35:24,262 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Park Graffiti Wall - 0.11km (attraction of lure 0.24km)
2016-08-07 07:35:26,234 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Park Graffiti Wall - 0.09km (attraction of lure 0.23km)
2016-08-07 07:35:28,479 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Park Graffiti Wall - 0.08km (attraction of lure 0.21km)
2016-08-07 07:35:30,629 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Park Graffiti Wall - 0.07km (attraction of lure 0.20km)
2016-08-07 07:35:32,927 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Park Graffiti Wall - 0.05km (attraction of lure 0.19km)
2016-08-07 07:35:34,724 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Park Graffiti Wall - 0.04km (attraction of lure 0.18km)
2016-08-07 07:35:37,398 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop Waitangi Park Graffiti Wall out of range.
2016-08-07 07:35:37,399 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:35:37,625 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Gate  - 0.05km (attraction of lure 0.16km)
2016-08-07 07:35:40,254 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop Waitangi Gate  out of range.
2016-08-07 07:35:40,254 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:35:40,482 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Wellington Skate Park - 0.07km (attraction of lure 0.15km)
2016-08-07 07:35:42,826 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Wellington Skate Park - 0.05km (attraction of lure 0.14km)
2016-08-07 07:35:45,693 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop Wellington Skate Park out of range.
2016-08-07 07:35:45,694 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:35:45,917 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Spoked Pole - 0.06km (attraction of lure 0.12km)
2016-08-07 07:35:48,213 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Spoked Pole - 0.05km (attraction of lure 0.12km)
2016-08-07 07:35:50,434 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop Spoked Pole out of range.
2016-08-07 07:35:50,435 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:35:50,673 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Playground - 0.11km (attraction of lure 0.11km)
2016-08-07 07:35:52,706 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Playground - 0.09km (attraction of lure 0.09km)
2016-08-07 07:35:54,992 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Playground - 0.08km (attraction of lure 0.08km)
2016-08-07 07:35:57,112 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Playground - 0.07km (attraction of lure 0.07km)
2016-08-07 07:35:59,653 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Playground - 0.05km (attraction of lure 0.05km)
2016-08-07 07:36:02,046 [CatchLuredPokemon] [INFO] [lured_pokemon_found] Lured pokemon at fort Waitangi Playground (73f7bc6f0f564577823f611ef0c078bf.16)
2016-08-07 07:36:07,379 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Waitangi Playground - 0.04km (attraction of lure 0.04km)
2016-08-07 07:36:09,718 [CatchLuredPokemon] [INFO] [lured_pokemon_found] Lured pokemon at fort Waitangi Playground (73f7bc6f0f564577823f611ef0c078bf.16)
2016-08-07 07:36:20,266 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_out_of_range] Pokestop Waitangi Playground out of range.
2016-08-07 07:36:20,267 [  SpinFort] [INFO] [pokestop_searching_too_often] Possibly searching too often, take a rest.
2016-08-07 07:36:20,500 [MoveToFort] [INFO] [moving_to_lured_fort] Moving towards pokestop Orbs of Light - 0.20km (attraction of lure 0.75km)
2016-08-07 07:36:22,887 [CatchLuredPokemon] [INFO] [lured_pokemon_found] Lured pokemon at fort Waitangi Playground (73f7bc6f0f564577823f611ef0c078bf.16)

Steps to Reproduce

Run bot as normal, after about 30 minutes this starts to happen for me.

Other Information

OS: Debian 8 Git Commit: c81666d751b9ca8cd338760fdf920194fabf4ee4 Python Version: Python 2.7.9

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Reactions:7
Comments:31 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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geek-mancommented, Aug 7, 2016

See the commit to my branch (https://github.com/geek-man/PokemonGo-Bot/commit/cb5491593ffe30a028629b9261b545abf4d1a8fc).

I added a call to self.api.activate_signature(). By doing this, you will see in there self._signature_gen = True. If you look around in the same file (rpc_api.py), you will see what when an RPC request is made, if signature_gen = True then the signature hashes for the RPC request is regenerated during that request.

Yes, encryption.so is reloaded (but this is not important). The important bit is that signature_gen is changed back to True.

I think this is correct because:

If you read up on the directions by the dev team, they instruct that activate_signature needs to be executed after a login (which is already happening). And all we are doing during check_session is essentially logging out and logging back in.
Because the session expires, a new auth token is generated (I think?) so it makes sense that the signature hashes need to be generated since, for example my understanding is that some of these “unknown” fields are hashes of the entire RPC request, which would include the auth token.

Seems to be working for me.

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geek-mancommented, Aug 7, 2016

Doesn’t seem like fixing the logging exception actually prevents the main issue here… The only thing I can see if that api.activate_signature() is called during a normal login, but not during check_session.

I have added this to the end of check_session:

                self.login()
+                self.api.activate_signature("encrypt.so")

Seems like this function will set ApiRpc._signature_gen, which in turn will cause the encrypted hashes to be regenerated on new RPC requests.

This is beyond my knowledge, so not yet sure if this will work, but it does make sense that some part of the requests is incorrect after the re-login, so this might do the trick.