I made a lot of changes from 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 for the database and the way the hardware was sent. When I found out there was a big problem with the very first database I had to start fresh. So if you submit the hardware again I will grab it monday morning
How it works is the new hardware text file is uploaded to my server. Every day or so I grab all of them that are uploaded. Since there are thousands of device IDs I get at a time I have made some programs for myself to automate about 90% of the process
So first step is I combine all the txt files into one. Thats done with a simple bat file. I then take that new text file and run a program I made that loops through the text file removing any that are not English based on the keywords that I added to 1.2.0. Then I remove the duplicates. Then the last step is to take the cleaned up list and have a 2nd program I made add everything in the text file to the database, and it also checks for duplicates that are already in the database.
So thanks to the automated tools I made it only takes me about 10 min to get a new database ready and uploaded from all the submitted text files, doesn't matter if it is 1 text file or 1000.
So to keep the same non English devices from getting uploaded over and over I added the keywords to 1.2.0 so now those will be removed before they are sent to me, cutting down on the repeat uploads
If it is one thing I have always been very good at it is automating things lol
Shane