Hey 4legs
 

Hey this might be of interest to you, it is a sheet designed to lay at SP using gruss you can set to auto so it will lay all races one after each other or manual for race to race laying.

Hi Shaun - thank you for that. I also just read your reply on Gruss & sent you an email!. I will try yours tomorrow; however that is virtually the same as mine; and when I run it I get an API-Error. But thinking I have been running under excel 2003 - even though I do have office 2010. I have tried it on 2 machines laptop visa and desktop/windows 7 and I have even bypassed my modem and ran it on a portable Broad bad modem - still same results - so very puzzling. Never mind I will keep trying. I will let you know tomorrow the results I get with yours.

Once again thanks for the kind offer - and I will use 2010 tomorrow. Regards, Fred

Hi Shaun - I was just going through your spread sheet and comparing it to mine and I did notice 2 things that are different. I searched the user manual and could not find how to adjust, but I have a feeling they may be relevant. These are:

Cell	Heading	Your Value	My Value
J3	Blank	66	Blank
L3	IR Delay	1	0

Especially the IR Delay. Could you please point me to how I set these. Apart from these we are virtually the same.

Many thanks ... Fred

I think those 2 cells are only active when betting is enabled the J3 i think is the number od races left from the pick list and the L3 is in running delay because the race has not started it would be a delay of 1 second when the race starts i think you would find it changes to 5 as there is a 5 second in running rule, you would have to confirm this with the boys from gruss.

As to your main problem you have me stumped as i have provided sheets for excel 2003 and up with no issues apart from the normal comparability ones.

Thanks Shaun - I should have posted this to the Gruss forum - I will get these forums worked out in time. I have posted it there this morning. My problem must be something to do with my environment - but no idea what. Never mind will keep working away at it. Fred

Np mate, there are a few of us on here that use that program so we could help at times if needed.

For your information, the problem I am having is because of a BUG in Betfair's API - Their response:

"This is a bug with AUS SP and causes an intermittent failure of Aus BSP bets placed via the API"

and lucky old me found it!

Fred

If anyone else is having this problem, Betfair have advised this Bug fix is due to be released on 6th June -- Fred

Gremlins in the Works
 

4legs I haven't had the same problem you reported but over the last 6 months have had several BACK-SP bets return a 'invalid_persistence' error message which, according to my post on Gruss, means I was attempting to place a SP bet on a non-SP market, which definitely was not the case as they were all SP markets. That said we are probably talking about less than .1% of all bets I have placed.

It did appear to be a API issue so fingers crossed it was somehow related to the problem you discovered & is about to be fixed.

Betfair have confirmed that the API fix has been implemented - I will test it today and post results tonight ... Fred

Today I layed every race without a problem - so I would say my problem with Betfair SP (and hopefully all others) has been fixed .. Fred