rF2_serverNotify

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A simple program to scan a set of your favourite rFactor 2 servers and pop up a notification if someone joins a server that had no drivers.

The program is configured by the file rF2_serverNotify.json which should be edited with the server(s) of interest.
It has two types of dictionary entry:
a) ServerX : 'name of server to be scanned'
There can be any number of Server entries.
Text beyond Server is ignored, it's just needed to make each entry different.​
b) Interval : 30
seconds between checking the servers​

When someone joins one of the servers this will pop up
rF2_serverNotify.JPG



A data file servers.file.json is created automatically the first time the program is run.
It contains all the servers and their addresses.

Download rF2_serverNotify.exe and rF2_serverNotify.json from https://github.com/TonyWhitley/rF2_serverNotify/releases then edit rF2_serverNotify.json with the server(s) you are interested in. Here is a sample:

Code: 
{
  "Server1" : "F1_1979_Official_Server_1" ,
  "Server2" : "RSVRsig-racing.boards.net",
  "Interval" : 30
}

(Updated link to latest version 0.5 that has AI driver filter, also adds a new program rF2_serversWithHumans.exe that goes through all servers finding the ones with drivers whose names are not in the list of known AI drivers (drivers.txt))
 
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I have never done any web programming (or Javascript) so I don't know. I used Python, there isn't much to the program, just a handful of Steam library calls.
 
Thanks for this, I didn't even know a Steam API existed! I just quickly threw some code together, it looks like the steam API does not correctly make a distinction between real players and bots, at the moment it looks like there are no real players on any servers, that can't be right?

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I just joined a server and both the player count and bot count went up by 1. The server I joined (OTCR Rad Challenge) has 10 players and they are all bots. It's disappointing if the bots count does not work correctly because I would really like a server browser that showed counts of bots and real world players.
 
I can't imagine that it is a Steam issue as I assume that many people use the API and would have reported it to Steam. I suspect that S397 are not correctly marking each player on the server as a real/bot player so the steam API cannot correctly report the data. I will ask on the Discord support forum as it may be a known issue.
 
New version that filters out the known AI driver names in drivers.txt See first post.

Code: 
"RSVRsig-racing.boards.net" Idle
"F1_1979_Official_Server_1" Idle
"DC5 Austria Endurance Race" Active but only AI drivers
"OTCR Clio Cup Rnd 1" Active but only AI drivers
 
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Guys, I might be talking out my arse here but, does the steam api log steam guid's of players? If it does can you then have a column that is a count of guid's (humans) and then another column that is the total minus the humans figure as the number of bots?

Just a thought I had, know nothing about coding and api's and stuff, like I said I might be talking shit here. :D

Cheers

G
 
I like your thinking Goanna but I can't see anything like that in the data that's returned to my program:

Code: 
AI: {'duration': 90080.21875, 'index': 0, 'name': 'Sebastiaan Bleekemolen #57', 'score': 0}
Me:  {'duration': 90080.21875, 'index': 0, 'name': 'Seven Smiles', 'score': 0}

There may well be other APIs I'm not using.
 
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Postipate said:
Does this filter the randomly generated AI names?
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I don't know anything about those, I just extracted all the names from the .veh files in the .mas files on my PC (just over 1,000 of them). The names for any vehicles I don't have won't be in the file. It's far from perfect.
 
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