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fjamieson

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Anyone been able to send RCON broadcast messages to an ARK server?

 

Read an old thread that this did not work... hope it may have been fixed and I am just overlooking something.

 

RCON messages from a third party sender work, but not from within TCAdmin using a 'Scheduled Task'

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Yes, it can be done. You'll need to put a copy of SourceRcon.exe (found in your tcadmin/Monitor/Tools folder) into your tcagame folder. Here's an example of one I use for Ark broadcasts on Linux. You can do it for Windows by removing the mono portion. I have the script prompt for variable to get the message they want to send.

 

MONO_PATH="" mono /home/tcagame/SourceRcon.exe ${ThisService_IpAddress} ${ThisService_RConPort} ${ThisService_RConPassword} "broadcast ${ThisService_BroadcastMessage}" &> /dev/null

 

You can use it for any RCON command that you want. Like I have one that issues destroywilddinos and other similar commands. If the command does not require input then just do "command"

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It can be done using TCAdmin as well. Go to Current Activity and Stats, click RCon Client and send the command from there.

 

Same thing can be configured as a scheduled task.

 

Hi Dennis,

 

Initially tried it.. would not work..

Worked on KGM6911 for over an hour..

 

.. then ... figured.. let me give your method a try again.... it started to work.... weird!!

 

But Still cannot get it to schedule a message :-(

 

Thanks for your input and help!!

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Yes, it can be done. You'll need to put a copy of SourceRcon.exe (found in your tcadmin/Monitor/Tools folder) into your tcagame folder. Here's an example of one I use for Ark broadcasts on Linux. You can do it for Windows by removing the mono portion. I have the script prompt for variable to get the message they want to send.

 

MONO_PATH="" mono /home/tcagame/SourceRcon.exe ${ThisService_IpAddress} ${ThisService_RConPort} ${ThisService_RConPassword} "broadcast ${ThisService_BroadcastMessage}" &> /dev/null

 

You can use it for any RCON command that you want. Like I have one that issues destroywilddinos and other similar commands. If the command does not require input then just do "command"

 

Thanks for the info..

 

Got it to work with a static message.. but cannot get it to give me a prompt :-( Thanks

 

Defined the variable (ThisServiceBroadcastMessage) as a Script Parameter.

Did the whole script config setup.. but it just gives me a "OK" "Cancel" block and no option to input the message..

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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The variable I used was BroadcastMessage. The ThisService_ part is used to reference it from a script. Here is a Windows example. I didn't realize that this post was in the Windows section.

 

@echo off

C:\TCAFiles\Users\SourceRcon.exe %ThisService_IpAddress% %ThisService_RConPort% %ThisService_RConPassword% "broadcast %ThisService_BroadcastMessage%" >NUL

 

And you do need to have the BroadcastMessage variable able to be used as a script parameter like you mentioned. And of course check the box to allow the script to be scheduled. I have the execute as the services user checked too.

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The variable I used was BroadcastMessage. The ThisService_ part is used to reference it from a script. Here is a Windows example. I didn't realize that this post was in the Windows section.

 

@echo off

C:\TCAFiles\Users\SourceRcon.exe %ThisService_IpAddress% %ThisService_RConPort% %ThisService_RConPassword% "broadcast %ThisService_BroadcastMessage%" >NUL

 

And you do need to have the BroadcastMessage variable able to be used as a script parameter like you mentioned. And of course check the box to allow the script to be scheduled. I have the execute as the services user checked too.

 

Thanks for the update and help.

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