Givenergy Inverter app

[WavyDavy]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but, I have just installed an app called inverter.dmg which I believe is written in bbcbasic.
link is
https://bbcbasic.co.uk/inverter.dmg.
When started it asks for some info which I now need to change, but I cannot find out where the settings are stored, so every time I start the app it goes into a screen with no info.
Can someone point me to the file I need to delete to set in back to default?
As it does not install on the MacBook as a normal app I cant find a file with the info it uses.

[Richard Russell]

Sorry if this is a stupid question but, I have just installed an app called inverter.dmg which I believe is written in bbcbasic.
link is https://bbcbasic.co.uk/inverter.dmg.
When started it asks for some info which I now need to change, but I cannot find out where the settings are stored

That information was included with the original release announcement. In case you can't read it, for example if you're not a member of that Facebook group, this is what it says:

If you need to force my app to request the inverter's IP address(es) again you can do that as follows:
iOS: Files app... On my iPad/iPhone... Inverter... Delete the file inverter.dat
Android: Settings... Apps... App management... Inverter... Storage usage... Clear data
Windows: Delete the file %appdata%\bbcbasic\inverter.dat
MacOS: Delete the file ~/Library/Application Support/BBCBasic/inverter.dat
Others: Delete the file ~/.local/share/bbcbasic/inverter.dat

However it should not normally be necessary to do this because it is a requirement of the app that the inverter has a static IP address. That's why there is no mechanism provided for changing it, nor instructions for doing so included with the app.

[WavyDavy]

Richard, Thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately although I do have show system files enabled. I don't have a folder BBCBasic in the applications support directory, and search doesn't reveal any file named inverter.dat.
What happened was I put the wrong IP address in. The one I put in was a static address but for another piece of kit.
I've tried re-downloading it and running that one, but all I get is this.

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[Richard Russell]

Unfortunately although I do have show system files enabled. I don't have a folder BBCBasic in the applications support directory

Strange. The BBCBasic folder is clearly visible on my M1 Mac Mini running MacOS Sonoma (see screenshot below) and issuing this command at the default prompt successfully causes the Inverter app to request the IP address(es) again:

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rm "Library/Application Support/BBCBasic/inverter.dat"

Admittedly this is a machine on which I run BBC BASIC itself, which you probably don't, but I wouldn't expect that to make a difference.

Regardless, there must be a file inverter.dat somewhere so if it's not there it is 'only' a case of finding it!

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