Banksia Gui and feature ping

[F. Bluemers]

If i send feature ping=1 in responding to 'protover 2' banksia will not 'recognize' the engine.
if i send feature ping=0 it will?
crafty will not register in banksia either, it sends ping=1 as well.
ping=1 is standard for cecp ( http://hgm.nubati.net/CECP.html )
Best
(I tried to register at banksia forum,that failed hence the post here)

[phhnguyen]

BSG supports feature ping. However, it requires Winboard engines to talk "enough" with the GUI, say, send several commands to the GUI when initializing as well as playing. Otherwise, it considers those engines halted and/or not trusted enough to work with. Without pinging, some engines become too "lazy" to talk to the GUI and the GUI doesn't have any way to check if the engine is still fine.

If you could, please copy the engine log (from the Engine log panel) of that engine and post it here to verify. Thanks.

[F. Bluemers]

I've set up a log file under "log and configuration" but it stays empty? The wrong log file?
I tried sending ping feature as late as possible: "print("feature done=1\n");print("blabla\n"); print("feature ping=1 done=1\n");
But the engine will still only be accepted using ping=0.

Best Fonzy

[F. Bluemers]

Here is the log from Crafty.

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Crafty v25.3

machine has 8 processors

White(1): xboard

tellicsnoalias set 1 Crafty v25.3 (1 cpus)
tellicsnoalias kibitz Hello from Crafty v25.3! (1 cpus)
White(1): protover 2
feature ping=1 setboard=1 san=1 time=1 draw=1
feature sigint=0 sigterm=0 reuse=0 analyze=1
feature myname="Crafty-25.3" name=1
feature playother=1 colors=0 memory=1
feature smp=1
feature variants="normal,nocastle"
feature done=1
White(1): accepted ping
White(1): accepted setboard
White(1): accepted san
White(1): accepted time
White(1): accepted draw
White(1): accepted sigint
White(1): accepted sigterm
White(1): accepted reuse
White(1): accepted analyze
White(1): accepted myname
White(1): accepted name
White(1): accepted playother
White(1): accepted colors
White(1): accepted memory
White(1): accepted smp
White(1): accepted variants
White(1): ping 1
pong 1
White(1): ping 2
pong 2
White(1): ping 3
pong 3
White(1): ping 4
pong 4
White(1): force
White(1): quit

Banksia printed "Error,this engine does not support the selected protocol\n");