Vehicle radio receiver not working

[suchy]

I recently made radio receiver and transmitter for one of my character's cars. Receiver is not working for sure... Before you ask - I checked frequency.
Any idea what is wrong?

[Ice-Man]

I know there's issue with receivers on ships, but never encountered one when in a car, although it's the same receiver on both vehicles.

[Doug R.]

There have been reported issues with vehicles, but they were specific vehicles only. Maybe you're one of the unlucky ones.

[suchy]

Och
Is there anything that can be done with it? Or do I have to abandon my car?

[SekoETC]

Radios require an entry in both the radios and objects table. Sometimes they're only added to the objects table, which means they don't have a "soul" and thus don't work. It's easy enough to add them to the radios table if there's no entry but if there's already an entry then it would be about coordinates going out of sync again.

[AlchemicRaker]

Radios require an entry in both the radios and objects table. Sometimes they're only added to the objects table, which means they don't have a "soul" and thus don't work. It's easy enough to add them to the radios table if there's no entry but if there's already an entry then it would be about coordinates going out of sync again.

Either way, that doesn't sound too difficult to repair... is it?

- Natso

[wadko]

To whom report a car with a radio that dosen't work?

[SekoETC]

I checked and there were 8 vehicle radio receivers, 7 vehicle radio transmitters and 1 regular receiver that were missing an entry. They have been added now.

And Natso, no, I've done this a couple of times in the past so I wrote a query for it and saved it in notepad so it's just a matter of copypasting it. But I wonder why some radios are added without a problem while some are not.

[Doug R.]

Seko, can your query be converted into a tool like the ship fixing tool?

[suchy]

Well... I'm afraid mine is still not working.

[SekoETC]

It's odd if it isn't because I checked your location id and it was on the list, both the receiver and the transmitter. Of course I could also run the other query to see if coordinates are out of sync, but that shouldn't be happening anymore since the sailing script was fixed.

Edit: There are 150 that are out of sync so either they haven't sailed since the bug was fixed or the bug wasn't fixed properly after all... I've updated those 150. If this keeps happening then it would be good to have a tool.

[suchy]

*sighs* It looks like I'm cursed, because it's still not working. Both receiver and transmitter from what I see. Just great...

[SekoETC]

Umm, according to the database, your vehicle's coordinates are NULL so synchronizing with that obviously doesn't work.

There were 616 locations with coordinates NULL that have a parent location. I updated them to have the coordinates of their parent location if the parent location doesn't have NULL coordinates, after which I ran the query a second time and found 22 locations that were apparently sub locations of others that had previously had NULL for coordinates.

[Doug R.]

Welcome to the void...

[SekoETC]

8 more radios updated after updating the coordinates in the locations table. Hopefully yours were among those.