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How to tell if MT4 loses its connection

  • #1
  • First Post: Jul 29, 2010 11:20am Jul 29, 2010 11:20am
Can someone out there help? I need to be able to tell when my mt4 platform loses connection. Is there a way to flag that in some way? It is critical as I have one platform feeding another data, and it could REALLY mess with my results if the relevant data just stopped.

Thanks very much!
  • #2
  • Jul 29, 2010 12:24pm Jul 29, 2010 12:24pm
powercouple, here is an indicator you can try.. it will show you tick and volume and connection strength.. My preferred method is just use a wav file as an alert for connect and disconnect. You can make one yourself the same way you make ringtones.

I have two you can use but I can not upload them here... if you want to email send me a message with the address and I will send them to you.

Good luck
tj
  • #3
  • Jul 29, 2010 2:19pm Jul 29, 2010 2:19pm
There is an EA on FF called reconnect. It's purpose is to reconnect your terminal if you are disconnected for any reason.

have a look at the code in it.

I can't seem to find a copy on my computer at this time otherwise I would post it for you.
  • #4
  • Jul 30, 2010 5:21pm Jul 30, 2010 5:21pm
Change the Alert sound files to distinctive sounds for the disconnect & reconnect alarms.

Go to Tools>Options>Events and upload your own .wav sound files
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  • #5
  • Jul 31, 2010 1:15am Jul 31, 2010 1:15am
Hi powercouple,

This appears fairly straightforward to do. I'll have a beta version EA for you next week sometime after the markets open so I can do some testing.

It will require you to run an additonal MT4 platform connected to another broker. Also, it will not be able to tell you if your whole computer is down, simply if the one platform is connected while the other is not.

As a matter of interest, is the feed you are referring to a 'MT4 to MT4' feed or does it involve a non-MT4 broker?

Actually, I see that you have been enquiring about writing files to other directories. This is the way I would do it. Did you find a problem with this way of doing it?
  • #6
  • Aug 3, 2010 9:30am Aug 3, 2010 9:30am
I was able to write to alternate directories in different mt4 platforms with no problem! This problem of losing connection I am still investigating. I would love to see what you have come up with.

Thanks very much!

Quoting kennyhubbard
Hi powercouple,

This appears fairly straightforward to do. I'll have a beta version EA for you next week sometime after the markets open so I can do some testing.

It will require you to run an additonal MT4 platform connected to another broker. Also, it will not be able to tell you if your whole computer is down, simply if the one platform is connected while the other is not.

As a matter of interest, is the feed you are referring to a 'MT4 to MT4' feed or does it involve a non-MT4 broker?

Actually, I see that you have been enquiring about...
  • #7
  • Aug 3, 2010 12:09pm Aug 3, 2010 12:09pm
Ok, try this out,

You need a reliable slave terminal preferably to another broker.

The settings as follows :-

Master - set to true for the master terminal(presumably the one being monitored) and set to false for the second terminal.

Warning_Time - number of seconds before a warning is issued

Local_Alert - standard MT4 pop up alert

Email_Alert - sends you an email

This works better if you place it on 2 chart in each terminal, such as EURUSD and GBPJPY since it is possible to go quite some time without a tick on just one chart. If you do this, do youself a favour and select the alerts to false on the second chart else you will get double warnings.

Uses a test file that it places in the root C directory.

It also sends you a warning when re-connected. This will not be able to warn you if your internet connection is down(or your VPS), although you should get a reconnect warning(ie no disconnect warning) when that happens and the connection is restored.
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  • #8
  • Jan 5, 2016 9:53am Jan 5, 2016 9:53am
Quoting kennyhubbard
Ok, try this out, You need a reliable slave terminal preferably to another broker. The settings as follows :- Master - set to true for the master terminal(presumably the one being monitored) and set to false for the second terminal. Warning_Time - number of seconds before a warning is issued Local_Alert - standard MT4 pop up alert Email_Alert - sends you an email This works better if you place it on 2 chart in each terminal, such as EURUSD and GBPJPY since it is possible to go quite some time without a tick on just one chart. If you do this, do...
Unfortunatelly Disconnect_Dedector dont work even if MT4_Disconnect_MAster/Slave files are in the directory. I'm getting 'Error in creating file...'

Krzysztof
  • #9
  • Jan 6, 2016 9:20am Jan 6, 2016 9:20am
Quoting powercouple
I was able to write to alternate directories in different mt4 platforms with no problem! This problem of losing connection I am still investigating. I would love to see what you have come up with. Thanks very much! {quote}
1. what you mean under "losing connection"? Slow data feed, no connection with servers? MT4 has own color indicator on the panel.
2/ Do you want : alert sound/text warning, or send information to other platform?
  • #10
  • Last Post: Jan 6, 2016 2:49pm Jan 6, 2016 2:49pm
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