From a folder to an installer

Up to version 0.1.5, Albion Meter was a folder. You unzipped it, ran the program and opened the meter in your browser. Every new version meant downloading it again and swapping folders by hand. And during a fight it was easy to lose the meter among your browser tabs.

Since 0.1.6 it’s a desktop app with its own window. The meter screen inside it is the same one you already know.

The meter inside the desktop app
A real run with 18 players: 10M damage, 2,847 party DPS.

Which file to download

  • Windows 10 or 11: AlbionMeter-Setup-0.1.15.exe. You choose the folder, and it adds a Start menu shortcut. When the meter opens, Windows asks for administrator permission, because reading network traffic requires it.
  • Ubuntu, Debian, Mint or Pop!_OS: AlbionMeter-0.1.15-linux-amd64.deb.
  • Any other distribution: AlbionMeter-0.1.15-linux-x86_64.AppImage.

The capture service is bundled with the app, so you no longer need to install .NET.

Updates

The app checks for a new version when it opens and every 6 hours after that. It downloads in the background, shows the progress in a small notice in the corner, and asks before restarting. The 0.1.15 post shows what those notices look like.

What you see while it starts

The first window is small. It shows the step it’s on: starting the capture service, allowing packet capture (Linux only) and loading the meter. When everything is ready it fades into the full window.

Albion Meter startup screen
On the right, what you get when the capture service doesn’t start: the reason and three buttons.

If you ever get the screen on the right, click Logs and send us the desktop.log file from that folder, on Discord or by e-mail. Most of the time it tells us exactly what went wrong.

Linux: the capture permission

On Linux, a program needs a permission called cap_net_raw to read network traffic. Before, you had to grant it yourself in the terminal.

With the .deb package it’s granted during installation, and updates keep it. With the AppImage, the app asks for your password once, in the system’s own prompt. If you close that prompt, the meter still opens and shows an Allow packet capture button.

To check that the .deb install has the permission:

$ getcap "/opt/Albion Meter/resources/server/AlbionMeter.Server"
/opt/Albion Meter/resources/server/AlbionMeter.Server cap_net_raw=ep

If cap_net_raw=ep is missing from the output, grant it by hand and restart the meter:

$ sudo setcap cap_net_raw=ep "/opt/Albion Meter/resources/server/AlbionMeter.Server"

With the AppImage the path is different, and the meter shows the exact command for your system in the warning.

The window itself

It has its own title bar with minimize, maximize and close. It won’t shrink below 820 × 560, so the tables never get squeezed, and it opens again with the same size and position you left it in, maximized or not.