(FIKA ONLY) SPT Server Manager

[gaunt hazel]

Note: on hold, got newborn 28/08/2025

Disclosure

I'll start of with disclosing that this is primarily a project I made to learn how to code with C# whilst also producing something that I'd actually like to have myself as I didn't really find anything already doing this
To achieve this goal, apart from google and asking people here, I've also utilised ChatGPT to help either explain stuff or provide examples of how to structure/separate things or straight up code examples.
TL;DR Learning with vibe coding, apologies to any actual proper programmers

Massive thanks to all the people here on the Discord that helped with answering any questions I had and providing feedback on some design choices I was not sure with

🛡️ SPT Server Manager

A lightweight .NET application to monitor and manage an SPT-Fika server. It provides automatic crash recovery, Discord alerts, and resource usage monitoring.

✨ Features

• 🚀 Automatically starts and monitors your SPT server
• 🔁 Attempts auto-restarts on crashes, alerts when max attempts reached and needs manual intervention
• ⚠️ Discord alerts on server crash, high CPU/RAM usage via either Webhook or Discord Bot
• 👥 Periodic updates on Players online / activity (in raid, menu, level)
• 📊 Logs CPU, RAM, and uptime
• 🌐 Basic Web Dashboard
• 🧵 Configurable via config.jsonc

🧑‍🏫 Instructions

• Download, place it wherever you want
• Edit the .config file accordingly (most things are documented inside of it on what they do) for you
  • Server Path ( sptExePath )
  • Server IP ( fikaBackendUrl )
  • Discord Mode (Webhook or Bot) for how you'd like to receive alerts and then the relevant configs for desired mode ( discordWebhookUrl OR discordBotToken + discordChannelId )
  • (OPTIONAL) User ID or Role ID for getting pinged on critical alerts to the Server ( mentions )
• Run included .exe and it will start the Server for you, reboot as needed on crashes

🔗 Links

**DOWNLOAD: ** Release v1.0.0.6
Github repo
Github Dashboard - View all planned features / active work

Why Fika only?

Because I CBA stripping or making the fika specific things optional as I don't play SPT without Fika, I might do it in the future but honestly I doubt I will bother

Known Issues 🐛

• Windows Defender for some blocks the app, works fine for others
  • Workaround: Exclude in Defender, permanent solution is having to wait for MS to "learn" about the app

Planned features

• IDK, anything else people suggest perhaps

[fluid talon]

Pretty cool!

Only odd thing I am running into, using Webhook mode (havnt tried bot), the messages with the server resources (CPU/RAM/Uptime), the "RAM %" is getting like.... spoilered out by Discord for some reason?

I can click on it and it shows it. I think it might be the formatting in whatever is being sent to Discord making it think it needs a spoiler tag?

[gaunt hazel]

I'll have a look

[fluid talon]

No rush, love it so far, been looking for something like this for quite a while!

Just what it looks like FYI in case I didnt explain myself well enough. You click the "box" and the RAM info pops in, like a spoiler

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah no I see it seems that whenever I changed that, I added another | by accident in there thats causing that I'll fix that asap

[gaunt hazel]

Pushed update to fix that Spoiler tag issue
https://github.com/BiddinWar/SPT-ServerManager/releases/tag/v1.0.0.2

• Added basic Web Dashboard - Can be accessed on hostmachine through localhost:5000 in browser or on any other device on the same LAN network through <servermachine IP>:5000
• Fixed weird double start of SPT.Server.exe after some time
• Fixed accidental addition of another | causing spoilertags to appear in Discord embeds
• Fixed bot commands not being recognized post first one used

[fluid talon]

Works perfectly, thank you!

[gaunt hazel]

Enjoy, feel free to throw any sort of suggestions on features or w/e. Open to most things probably

[swift sandal]

Does dark mode work?

[gaunt hazel]

🤔 Worked when I tested it, but Imma base it on your question it's not

I'll take a look again once I'm done making dinner

[swift sandal]

Your patch fixed my issue of not hooking correctly at first btw. Thank you so much for the widget. It is great

[gaunt hazel]

Not hooking? 👀

[swift sandal]

No worries 1.0.0.2 works out of the box now

1.0.0.1 was not working for me

[cyan sandal]

the app will close it itself immediatly after i open it defender closed btw

[gaunt hazel]

now thats fucking odd, did defender give any sort of message?

[cyan sandal]

it ask like this app not sec etc.. then i just started anyway but the app appears and gone

[gaunt hazel]

the fuck

[cyan sandal]

any idea?

[gaunt hazel]

Not at all, throw your logs at me

[cyan sandal]

the logs are also empty

[gaunt hazel]

Now thats less fucking useful
Try run with admin? 🤔

[cyan sandal]

i did

same result

sth about my pc cause it stop but what is it

[gaunt hazel]

I'd like to know myself
You're trying latest 0.2 version right and ya got the win version and not the linux one by accident yeah? 🤔

[cyan sandal]

0.2 confirmed and the win version confirmed

[gaunt hazel]

I don't think I'll be able to figure this one out tonight as I'd need to do some research on why this would happen.

[cyan sandal]

okay i ll take a look another day then but also tried 0.1 version right now same result just to be informed you

[gaunt hazel]

Thanks

[cyan sandal]

btw so useful mod thanks for your help

[gaunt hazel]

Thank you yourself

[gaunt hazel]

@cyan sandal Well, some update on the issue. the TL;DR is you'll have to just exclude it in Windows Defender for now

I just have to wait for MS to learn more about my app for it to stop triggering the false positive so to say on the app and in the meantime if anyone encounters similar issue to you where their Defender just closes the app even after "Run anyway", you just have to exclude it for now

[twilit scarab]

tried to reach the web dashboard from another pc on the same LAN, connection refused per browser message (after disabling firewall on the servermachine)

checked netstat - seems like it's only listening on port 5000 through the localhost/loopback IP

are we able to modify the listening IP/port? 🤓

disclaimer - im not familiar with creating discord bots but i believe i have the right permissions set, tho im open to any troubleshooting steps

seems the bot is unable to post the embed link

[gaunt hazel]

Hmm 🤔 you wanna try and disable player graph? 👀

And I'll look at the listening port issue and possibly just making that configurable too

[twilit scarab]

Sure - I can try that! I'll let you know how it goes

[gaunt hazel]

Think I've fixed the issue with the graph
Looking at the port issue now and making it a config

[twilit scarab]

Awesome man! Disabling the graph option did allow the discord bot to start posting

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah figured based on the error, fuckup on my part
But I've hopefully resolved that and I think I've also fixed the port issue
Just going to run some tests and see that nothing else broke (hopefully) but knowing how stuff works, someones gonna find or experience something anyways

[twilit scarab]

comes with the job - however, this is a great mod so thank you!

[gaunt hazel]

Got a bit side tracked with fixing the Dashboard URL and ended up spending time improving the embed

Packaging and then uploading new update

Changes

• Fixed Dashboard URL not working properly across LAN devices
• Fixed Player Graph not sending with Bot as mode
• Exposed some more discord settings to work at Runtime and also display them in Dashboard + Startup embed
• Improved Startup Embed formatting
• Improved Dashboard UI

Full Changelog: https://github.com/BiddinWar/SPT-ServerManager/compare/v1.0.0.2...v1.0.0.3

Plans

• Shutdown / Restart schedule + In-Game/Discord notification with intervals'
• Write proper How-to steps 😅
• Document code better for own sanity and others

DOWNLOAD

[gaunt hazel]

regardless of me testing stuff, I forgot to properly check the discord messages and I broke the filter for it
Fixing it rn

[gaunt hazel]

Well thats fixed But bot is double posting, WHY I'll get an update going for tomorrow

[patent lance]

This looks awesome! Anything I can do to help figure out how to run headless?

[gaunt hazel]

I am not sure honestly 😂 I probably just need to look into how a headless is started etc and hook into that

[patent lance]

It’s just a powershell file. Could just target that?

[gaunt hazel]

That much I know too
But its more like launching it, making sure it does connect and then just monitoring it for issues and resource usage.
I just need to probably get my lazy ass off and set a headless up for just testing purpose

[patent lance]

Wish I could be more helpful lol

[gaunt hazel]

its all good Does the headless run in a terminal window after it launches? 👀

[wise thistle]

Personally, I wouldn't use one application to do both. The option wouldn't be a bad thing, but I would want a separate app for headless.

Launching a headless client is as easy as passing specific arguments to EscapeFromTarkov.exe. Then monitoring the app to see if it closed and restarting it. That's all the powershell does (with a bit of basic sanity checking to make sure Fika.Headless.dll exists and such)

[gaunt hazel]

I see

Wonder if I could satisfy that need then, standalone app for Headless but with option to just have it all managed from one if desired

Because what I had in mind for the Headless monitoring etc was to actually be able to monitor multiple headless instances and manage multiple of em by starting up all or turning some off etc as desired 🤔

[patent lance]

Some of my friends that play on our server tend to do stupid stuff that borks the headless such as leaving after joining or starting a raid and then quitting the game. (Idk, they’re smart ). Just something that would allow me to restart the headless without being at my pc. Cause I’m tired of getting (hey, server down, can you fix?)

And it’s always the headless being borked

Some type of a discord command to restart the headless would be🔥

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah, I'll write that down

[patent lance]

Such a cool mod/application though, excited to use it!

[gaunt hazel]

These discord bot issues are doing my head in

[gaunt hazel]

Fixed the duped bot messages I'll package an update for it rn, plan to work on a Scheduled Restart / Stopping unless some other issue arises or concerns by folks

[gaunt hazel]

V 1.0.0.4 Bot Filter & Double Posting no more

Changes

• Fixed NoisyActivityFilter being ignored by the bot
• Fixed duped bot messages
  Full Changelog: https://github.com/BiddinWar/SPT-ServerManager/compare/v1.0.0.3...v1.0.0.4

Plans

• Shutdown / Restart schedule + In-Game/Discord notification with intervals
• Headless Client Support
• Write proper How-to steps 😅
• Document code better for own sanity and others (Never ending task)

Download: here

Poll in regards to Headless Client (24hrs): #mod-development message

[swift sandal]

Server won't launch. I will be honest I have been having trouble getting this to work as intedend most of the time between updates. I am doing a Webhook to a channel in discord. I have only applied my "sptExePath", "fikaBackendUrl", "discordMode", "discordWebhookUrl", and "discordChannelId". Here is my log. Am I missing something?

[gaunt hazel]

[wise thistle]

all i did was

• download the release
• extract somewhere
• change the server path to the correct spot
• launch SPTManager.exe

spt.server.exe never launches, no indication of why in logs. i'm not intending to use it, i was just curious why it wasn't working for RodHertz. no idea.

[gaunt hazel]

I even tried all the things and it worked fine, wtf
@swift sandal did this only happen with .4 or were you seeing it with .3 too?

[gaunt hazel]

so something auto triggered the shutdown here

[wise thistle]

seems like it

[gaunt hazel]

welp, time to put everything else on hold and figure this out then

Okay, this is pissing me off
I can repro it if I run it with the .exe but if I go back to the commit for that release and run in VS, it works fine

wtf

[void wadi]

Make sure you are publishing and not compiling + zipping

My brother in Christ don't make those jokes

[gaunt hazel]

Ah, ya ment the emote 😂

[void wadi]

[gaunt hazel]

still stands, I'd like to not think I did that much of a dumb

[void wadi]

Alright I'm stealing that one when I get home

[gaunt hazel]

the facepalm ?

[void wadi]

Yes

[gaunt hazel]

enjoy

[gaunt hazel]

I'd like to say I've ruled out the possibility of being dumb and doing compile + zipping by having used this script

# Requires PowerShell 7+
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

# -------- CONFIG --------
$projectName = "SPTManager"
$releaseDir = "release"
$versionFile = "VersionInfo.cs"
$configTemplateSource = "config/config.template.jsonc"
$configTemplateTargetRel = "config/config.jsonc"

# Target runtimes: win-x64 and linux-x64
$runtimes = @(
    @{ Rid = "win-x64"; Ext = "zip" },
    @{ Rid = "linux-x64"; Ext = "tar.gz" }
)

# -------- Extract Version --------
$versionLine = Select-String -Path $versionFile -Pattern 'public const string CurrentVersion = "(.*)";'
if ($versionLine.Matches.Count -eq 0) {
    Write-Error ":x: Could not extract version from $versionFile"
    exit 1
}
$version = $versionLine.Matches[0].Groups[1].Value
Write-Host ":package: Packaging version $version"

# -------- Ensure Output Dir --------
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $releaseDir | Out-Null

# -------- Loop Through Targets --------
foreach ($runtime in $runtimes) {
    $rid = $runtime.Rid
    $ext = $runtime.Ext
    $packageName = "$projectName-$version-$rid"
    $publishPath = "$releaseDir/$packageName"
    $archivePath = "$releaseDir/$packageName.$ext"

    Write-Host "`n:rocket: Publishing for $rid..."

    # Clean any previous build
    if (Test-Path $publishPath) {
        Remove-Item -Recurse -Force $publishPath
    }

    # Build
    dotnet publish "./SPTManager.csproj" -c Release -r $rid --self-contained true -p:PublishSingleFile=true -o $publishPath

    # Copy config template
    $targetConfigPath = Join-Path $publishPath $configTemplateTargetRel
    $targetConfigDir = Split-Path $targetConfigPath
    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path $targetConfigDir | Out-Null
    Copy-Item $configTemplateSource $targetConfigPath -Force

    # Archive
    if ($ext -eq "zip") {
        if (Test-Path $archivePath) { Remove-Item $archivePath }
        Compress-Archive -Path "$publishPath/*" -DestinationPath $archivePath
    }
    elseif ($ext -eq "tar.gz") {
        if (Test-Path $archivePath) { Remove-Item $archivePath }
        Push-Location $publishPath
        tar -czf "../$packageName.$ext" *
        Pop-Location
    }

    Write-Host ":white_check_mark: Created $archivePath"
}

Write-Host "`n:tada: All builds and packaging complete!"```

[void wadi]

I'd have to look at the code before I can be of any help then

[gaunt hazel]

Its oki Is learning experience 😅

[gaunt hazel]

I think I fixed it
Time to try and test everything then

[gaunt hazel]

Yup, that issue is fixed

Culprit

var botService = host.Services.GetRequiredService<BotService>();
await botService.StartAsync(cts.Token);

This, for some reason fired twice which caused it to most of the time send out the cts token which caused the closure

Commenting out those two lines, boots without issues now, but it has bricked the startup message I sent to Discord
So need to fix that first and then I can release a fixed version

Apologies folks for the newbie mistakes

[gaunt hazel]

I'll have something up tomorrow, had to deal with some personal shit

[gaunt hazel]

Just doing a final sanity check of the .exe and then there'll be an updated version available

[gaunt hazel]

Stuff is updated now
As always, there's deffo gonna be issues but hopefully nothing as glaring and annoying as it just auto-closing on itself as I've not been able to repro that now in this release

https://github.com/BiddinWar/SPT-ServerManager/releases/tag/v1.0.0.5
-# updating main post too

Goodnight now

[gaunt hazel]

Small update to tweak the hash for playerpresence and what it checks for changes
https://github.com/BiddinWar/SPT-ServerManager/releases/tag/v1.0.0.6

[gaunt hazel]

Honestly just not sure which one to tackle first Scheduler would deffo be easier but I feel like its not as much of a wanted/desired feature as headless support

[gaunt hazel]

Guess headless it is

Time to figure out how to do all that then

[gaunt hazel]

Who has Headless clients on a separate machine from the one they're running the server on?
I don't have a second PC so I can only test stuff thats all on the same system 😅
Asking so I can poke ya later when I need to get some testing done to make sure stuff works when its not on the same system

[old dune]

I do

[gaunt hazel]

I'll be poking ya hopefully later in the week to try something then

[old dune]

Cool, I like to break things 🙃

Funny thing is I was just looking at the mod was thinking of using it

[gaunt hazel]

appreciate it, still needs tweaking and features 😅

[old dune]

All good lol I like the restart function built in, I made a headless watcher, basically used the server watcher and cut that up

[gaunt hazel]

[old dune]

Sure if it crashes I won’t get no logs but this helps my buddy play when I’m not home to fix

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah, its the point essentially of all this 😂
Get stuff going so I don't have to be present if friends wanna play

[runic prairie]

Reading all this a assume you can’t run this all in a docker container or on Linux, right?

[gaunt hazel]

Works on linux, or should at least

[gaunt hazel]

I've tried to keep it linux friendly but I can't fully validate it as I dont have a Linux system to test on personally

I'm also a complete beginner/noob at all this so yeah

[runic prairie]

😬

[gaunt hazel]

you're free to attempt it and if ya encounter any issues do tell and I can try and fix what I can

[twilit scarab]

downloaded v1006, can't get the app to run

made sure server is running and file path is correct - port isn't in use, ill try rebooting the maching in a sec

was curious if anyone had this behaviour too

[twilit scarab]

reboot didn't correct it - the console would come up for 1 - 2 secs, no output, then disappears. I noticed i couldn't rename the SPTManager folder that i nested all the files into tho, so something is running but can't figure out why I can no longer get the console to stay up

[gaunt hazel]

Logs please 🤔 and server shouldn't be running beforehand as the tool will boot it for you 👀 I'll take a look at it when I get home

[twilit scarab]

ah i see - well, i did a reboot and ran the tool to start the server up and it did the same thing

Also, it's not generating logs 😅

i excluded the folder from windows defender virus scans as well

[gaunt hazel]

🤔🤔

[twilit scarab]

no logs aint helpful, i know lol

[gaunt hazel]

Nah just trying to think what can be attempted

[twilit scarab]

but thats the indicator that its not running long enough to generate logs

[gaunt hazel]

Path has double slashes yes?

[twilit scarab]

yes

lemme paste my config without the secret stuff

there's teh file path, on the local box its C:

i tried changing the dashboard port as well to 9000, no dice

[wise thistle]

have you tried not running it from a network drive?

[twilit scarab]

im running it locally, just accessing the files from my main pc to paste in this chat

i did check netstat -a and didn't see anything listening on port 5000

so the app shouldn't be running, but i can't change the folder name atm... "folder is open in another program"

[wise thistle]

fwiw i downloaded it, copied the config template & changed filename to config.jsonc, changed my server path, and it all immediately worked (obviously without discord notifications).

though that said my does not seem to properly set windows terminal to utf-8 or whatever encoding

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah I've not done anything for the encoding 😂😂 sorry

[gaunt hazel]

Check task manager and search just spt

And if the folder open issue remains you can try restarting Explorer.exe

[twilit scarab]

i couldn't find a process with a name starting with SPT

I'll re-download from github and start fresh

not sure if it's something on my pc specifically - Shynd's test confirms that tho

[gaunt hazel]

Still got me confused 😅

Especially the logging as it should log something at the very least

[gaunt hazel]

Let me know if re-downloading it solved it or not
otherwise i'll probably have to try and poke about to figure out what and why

[twilit scarab]

Will do, wish I can provide more info.

I'll try to run it on my main PC as well

Currently working today, but I get downtime again, I'll poke at it

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah no rush
Hopefully we can figure out what is at least happening

[twilit scarab]

alright so tried downloading a fresh copy to my main pc, same thing - console opens for a moment, then closes out - nothing else happens

i kept the default config but pointed it to my pc's SPT folder instead

tried disabling windows firewall and the real-time protection

[gaunt hazel]

You mind making a small recording

can DM it to me if ya dont wanna post it here

[twilit scarab]

i dont mind, someones running a woods raid atm, so whenever they get done ill record lol

[gaunt hazel]

All gucci, sorry for the inconvenience

[twilit scarab]

no worries man, im the one asking for help so i appreciate it

rebooting the machine, gonna record here in just a sec

[gaunt hazel]

[twilit scarab]

@gaunt hazel this is after a fresh reboot - only differences in config from earlier is that i use the loopback/localhost IP and turned on debuglogging

[gaunt hazel]

the fucking thing doesn't even get to output a line???

[twilit scarab]

exactly

and this happens on my main pc too

[gaunt hazel]

Bruh wtf

[twilit scarab]

you can see the process start up in task manager, then go away

then

[gaunt hazel]

I am actually fucking confused AF

[twilit scarab]

if you attempt to modify the folder, it says the app is running.. but no task??

[gaunt hazel]

yeah no thats windows (explorer.exe) breaking after trying to rapid fire the app 😂

restart of explorer.exe in Task Manager fixes that

at least has for me with any other app thats done similar

[wise thistle]

shift+right-click in the folder -> open Powershell window here -> type .\SPTMan[TAB] -> Enter

start it in an open console window, see if it does anything

[gaunt hazel]

imma write that down

[twilit scarab]

ill record

[wise thistle]

screenshot should suffice since it will just go back to the terminal

or record, up to you, whatever's easiest

it's curious that windows modules installer worker seems to be taking up 20% cpu cycles. like it's installing a runtime or something?

[twilit scarab]

fwiw, both machines are on windows 10 22H2

[gaunt hazel]

Shouldn't matter

[twilit scarab]

welp

i know what the issue is

well, let me try something lol

[gaunt hazel]

[twilit scarab]

file name

[wise thistle]

yeah honestly it should create a copy of the template config in the correct spot & throw up an error and a Console.Read(); to wait for user input

if the config file doesn't exist

[gaunt hazel]

It should be doing that

[wise thistle]

mine didn't

[gaunt hazel]

mfer

Lemme go update my todo list

[twilit scarab]

that worked

https://tenor.com/view/jim-carrey-alive-gif-18356228

thank you guys @wise thistle @gaunt hazel

[twilit scarab]

a minor whoops tbh, i still enjoy using the app, thanks for working on this project

[gaunt hazel]

yeah but its annoying
Also, any and all feedback is appreciated as well

[twilit scarab]

ill play aroudn with it and ill let you know of any issues or feedback

[twilit scarab]

im a network guy, i think all you developer guys are a special breed

its def annoying tho

[gaunt hazel]

Im an absolute noob 😅
This would quite literally be my first project 😂

[twilit scarab]

more effort than ive ever put into app development, so you're doing well

[wise thistle]

somewhere around here here https://github.com/BiddinWar/SPT-ServerManager/blob/main/Services/Server/ServerProcessManager.cs#L308 add

StandardOutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8,```

[gaunt hazel]

I was googling that so thanks

[twilit scarab]

does starting the SPTManager.exe supposed to bring the server up?

[wise thistle]

the server output is captured in the sptmanager console like in my screenshot here #1401178933302399007 message

[gaunt hazel]

Yes, SPTManager.exe will

• Start SPT.Server.exe
• Combine both console windows into 1
• Monitor the resource usage of the server (its very very low as server can run on a potato essentially)
• Alert you on issues with Discord message and/or pings
• Periodic updates on Player Activity, Server Resources

[twilit scarab]

[gaunt hazel]

Currently I'm tackling support for the Headless client so that people can monitor them and also start/stop on demand 😅

Oh, also a very basic Webb Dashboard accessible to any device on the same LAN network

Looks something like this

You can also just start/stop the server whenever you want through the manager so essentially the Manager is just on constantly and You or others can boot it up with appropriate Discord command or if they're on your LAN, the Dashboard

[twilit scarab]

just making sure im understanding:

• Start SPTManager.exe, it will then automatically run the sptserver.exe and combine the windows into one.

?

[gaunt hazel]

Yes

Goal is to literally just have SPTManager.exe do most if not everything for you, especially if you have Headless Clients

[twilit scarab]

how quickly is it supposed to start the server up? Instantaneously?

ohh i see what is doing now

[gaunt hazel]

It starts it up pretty fast yeah, why? 👀

[twilit scarab]

no worries - i guess i was expecting to see the spt.server.exe to start up but its literally in the spt manager console lol

the headless connected to it no problem

[gaunt hazel]

[twilit scarab]

aight so i go to the web console

i hit stop

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah, if ya got headless stuff ya gotta manually start those for now

[twilit scarab]

the server stops, but it throws an exception error

and now the start/restart/stop buttons are grayed out

[gaunt hazel]

Which one Cuz I'm pretty sure its a false positive one because of a dummy mistake i did

[twilit scarab]

ill pull the logs, one sec

where is it writing logs to?

[gaunt hazel]

SPTManager folder -> Logs

[twilit scarab]

its not outputting that log file

[gaunt hazel]

Why do I feel like I didn't make it actually write logs in real time to the file

That folder should appear

[twilit scarab]

i had debugging turned on as well

the log file doesn't write to the folder

[gaunt hazel]

And then logs based on day
But by the looks of it, it might not make the file unless the Manager closes which is now pissing me off

[twilit scarab]

i closed the manager and its not creating the log file either

[gaunt hazel]

the fuck

@wise thistle When ya tried earlier, did it make a Logs folder? I'm going mental

[wise thistle]

nope

[void wadi]

Could it be because you're running it from a network drive...? It looks like you are from the picture.

Maybe not

[wise thistle]

that's what i thought too but they're just grabbing screenshots from that pc, actually running it locally

[gaunt hazel]

hes only accessing it from a network drive

[twilit scarab]

yes sorry if that's confusing, but its far easier for me to manage the files and post to discord from this KB/M lol

[gaunt hazel]

all gucci

[wise thistle]

someone needs to discover RustDesk 😄

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah, that error is fine, its a squashed one in my current build

Dashboard greying out the buttons incorrectly thou is new to me

and its a false positive also 😂

[twilit scarab]

im always open to new tools and this one def piqued my interest lol

https://tenor.com/view/addition-to-mycollection-more-collection-gif-14095863

[gaunt hazel]

Also, I'm not insane in believing this should actually be creating the directory

{
    Directory.CreateDirectory(_logDir);
    _logger = new AppLogger(new Config(), _logDir);
    return _logger;
}```

[twilit scarab]

also, im not sure what it does as a restart, but would it kill the sptmanager app then bring it back up?

[gaunt hazel]

No, SPTManager app should never close unless it either Crashes or you close it yourself

It kills the SPT.Server.exe process -> starts it again

[twilit scarab]

ah the restart cooldown is in effect - ill try later

[gaunt hazel]

Should only be in effect after first attempt to restart

[twilit scarab]

https://tenor.com/view/uncle-chan-one-more-thing-jackie-chan-jackie-jackie-chan-adventure-gif-15699811

so i noticed, the sptmanager keeps up with my messages on the discord server the bot is in:

its debug level, not a big deal in terms of console output once debugger is off

but - is it supposed to keep up with our chat messages from different channels in the same server?

i went thru and limited permissions for the bot so it wont read chat history anymore, except for the channel referenced in the config

thought that was odd

[gaunt hazel]

No, should only be checking the channel with the channel ID, but that might be a thing I missed as that specific Debug [Trace] was when I was trying to pin down why commands werent working, so I might not have restricted that one to a channel or anything 😅

I'll write it down thou and investigate, heading to bed thou as I gotta be up at 4 😅

[twilit scarab]

no worries dude!

[gaunt hazel]

Well, think I've fixed the logging directory issues and the config file which now will check if config.jsonc is missing, and if it is will create one based on copying the included config.template.jsonc and if that file is missing for w/e reason it should throw an error

[gaunt hazel]

I figured out why this is happening
I didn't make those buttons Event-driven (Cuz I'm so smart) so they're greyed out because the state hasn't been updated (it should update if you refresh) so I'm going to change that now to be Event-driven and probably look around at making sure everything is event-driven if I can

[gaunt hazel]

Bot should also not be spying on you anymore apart from the associated channel
Fix was rather simple

            // Restrict to the configured channel before doing *anything* else
            if (message.Channel is SocketTextChannel textChannel &&
                textChannel.Id != _config.DiscordChannelId)
            {
                return;
            }```

[patent lance]

I told my friends I play with about your mod and the headless support 🔜. They don’t leave me alone asking when we’ll start using it 🤣

[gaunt hazel]

😂 😂 😂 I'm sorry, soon ™️ 😂

[patent lance]

Don’t apologize. I’m happy you’re attempting to do this. Take your time!

[gaunt hazel]

Adding support for Headless is way more pain for my noob brain than I hoped for, I'm maybe like idk, halfway with what I need on the main apps side and then I need to make the actual microservice/app for the Headless Client machines that are not on the same system as the server.

I might have something testable by end of month hopefully

[wise thistle]

that's mostly why i suggested a standalone app with some communication. keeps it a bit simpler.

[gaunt hazel]

I mean That's sorta gonna be what I'm doing anyways with the micro service
micro service is just going to grab metrics of the system/process, await commands (start, stop, restart) , and heartbeat to make sure its online even if metrics don't send as a fallback safety check all over just a internal LAN only websocket.

Like, this sounds ok, no?

[supple forum]

Godspeed man

Just came home from vacations, luckily my server only crashed after 13 days and I returned on the 14th

Could've stayed there forever if I had installed your mod

[gaunt hazel]

Good to know 😂✌️

[gaunt hazel]

Project bit on hold
With misses at hospital

[rustic jasper]

Good luck

[rustic jasper]

Dms open btw, if you need.

[winter girder]

so my exe path is "C:\SPT\SPT.Server.exe" so shld the config file be "sptExePath": "C:\SPT\SPT.Server.exe"?

[gaunt hazel]

Double slashes but yes

[winter girder]

"sptExePath": "C:\SPT\SPT.Server.exe" ?

ohh its not allowing double slasehes in chat lol

[gaunt hazel]

Yes that's correct tjn3

Then

[winter girder]

Sorry, had to go handle some irl stuff, as soon as I run the .exe I see the window open and immediately close

[gaunt hazel]

What version

Did you rename the config template to just config.jsonc?

[winter girder]

The one in the config folder?

The newest release

[gaunt hazel]

Yes

[winter girder]

That i didn't, maybe I missed it in the instructions, after I rename it, do I leave it in the configuration folder?

[gaunt hazel]

Yes

Just needs to be renamed to purely config.jsonc

[winter girder]

Will do it shortly, tyvm. Had to go to my brother's house to make sure the server was even working correctly, tried connecting a friend to it and I felt like a moron because I cldnt get his pc to connect.

[winter girder]

how does one get the dashboard?

[midnight gazelle]

hey, i just wanted to say thanks for this app. its saved me and my friends a ton of time and it's super convenient. even without headless support, it's ridiculously helpful. best of luck getting that together too!

[gaunt hazel]

It's included, localhost:port

If you try and access it from a different computer then ipv4 of the server machine:port

Thought if you're not on the same LAN then it won't work 😅

[winter girder]

still unsure how to try and acess it

[wise thistle]

Open a web browser and type localhost:5000 (or whatever port is set for the webserver in the config file) into the address bar. It's just a locally hosted web page.

[winter girder]

awesome ty

[supple forum]

Helloooo

Got this when starting the manager on the latest update

[gaunt hazel]

whyy

Well, the update checker failing isn't critical but it's odd that it's doing that 🤔

I'll write it down and look at it later @supple forum, thanks ❤️

[supple forum]

My pleasure !

New problem, it doesn't register me as a player, maybe I've missed something ?

[gaunt hazel]

No, you've not missed something but if you're in the game, go into a raid or to Menu/Hideout and see if it updates

[supple forum]

I am in a raid !

[gaunt hazel]

I'll poke at it when I get off work

[supple forum]

Idk what happens, seems like one message appears and dissapears almost instantaneously

[gaunt hazel]

Yeah I think I know what it is

[gaunt hazel]

Wifes addmited to hospital so I'm putting everything on hold
Think baby wants out

[rustic jasper]

Good luck!

[gaunt hazel]

Baby born

[void wadi]

yippie

[vestal pivot]

They'll prob be old enough to play by the time SPT 5.0 comes out 🤪 Congrats!

[gaunt hazel]

😂 Probably, thanks ❤️

[supple forum]

Hooray, first one ?

[gaunt hazel]

Yee, after 3 years and 8 miscarriage

Very hype

[rustic jasper]

Awesome! Not about the mis* but the rest!

[patent lance]

Congrats! Good to hear! You know… the baby, not the struggles.

[obsidian sonnet]

Hi

[old dune]

@gaunt hazel awesome news boy or girl?

[stoic shell]

From what I'm gathering is that this tool IS working, but what I can't deduce is how to get it to function to monitor a remote server. Is that a fully functional feature?
The server is up and running on the server pc and I can load into it with my gaming pc. I attempted to change the config file for the manager to properly reflect the server pc ip:port, but was I not supposed to change the file path? It pops a window and does nothing. Unsure what I'm doing wrong if it's supposed to be able to connect.

and yes, I'm on the same lan
And yes I allowed it through the firewall and it's not being flagged by AV

[gaunt hazel]

Tool runs on the same PC AS the Server

WEB Dashboard is the only thing accessible on the same LAN by any device

You don't run the tool on a pc that isn't the server machine

[gaunt hazel]

Boi

[old dune]

Congrats

[stoic shell]

Okay, I'll give that a shot later today!

[stoic shell]

So I've followed the instructions and ran the exe on the local server directly. Even after saving the changed config with the local server spt.server.exe filepath and the local server ip of 192.168.X.X:6969 it just flashes a cmd window and closes. What part is wrong in that arrangement?
I've also tried the 127.0.0- ip as well as the remote IP that the other members use. None of them worked.

[gaunt hazel]

Did you actually rename the config.TEMPLATE.jsonc to be just config.jsonc?

[stoic shell]

Ah. That would do it, I figure. I must not have seen that in the instructions I was looking at. I'll give it a whirl tomorrow afternoon👍

[gaunt hazel]

I'll try and write proper instructions when I get home and bit settled with the baby 😅

[stoic shell]

Okay, so I finally gave it a go and I'm, unfortunately, still running into the same issue. :/
I know you've got a lot going on, so there's no rush on this! 😊
I'm only trying to include the server manager for convenience, so if it's not functional, I won't lose sleep over it.
Here is my setup:
Download/install manager into its own designated folder within the SPT server folder.
Change name of config file to config.jsonc.
Changed the filepath to point at the server.exe within my spt folder. Did not delete quotes, pretty sure you don't, but just in case.
Update fika backend ip/port to the default 127.0.0.1:6969 IP.
Server is offline. Attempt to launch server. CMD window flashes, nothing.
Attempt to change IP to other variants: 0.0.0.0, the one that others use to access the server remotely, then the server's own IP of 192.168.1.X. All with the 6969 port and no removal of quotations.
No variation produces results.
That is the extent of my testing so far. Thoughts/ideas?

[wise thistle]

post a screenshot of your config.json

[stoic shell]

made no changes since last attempt at 0.0.0.0:6969

[wise thistle]

You need double back slash in your folder path

#1401178933302399007 message

Also your backend url needs to go back to 127.0.0.1

[stoic shell]

Thanks for the clarification! I default to 127.0.0.1 for all new tests, so at least I've got that right. I figure the instructions need some clarification given how not-obvious some of these requirements are >.>
Now I'm going to have to embark on the journey of figuring out how to utilize the web asset xD

[wise thistle]

Legit the only thing that needs changed initially is the exe path, and the example path has double back slashes so probably you need to include double back slashes in your exe path. Everything else default and it'll at least boot up.

[stoic shell]

The manager appears to be working now, so all that's left is figuring out how to utilize the interface, since this appears to be only a cmd.exe atm

[wise thistle]

You go to 127.0.0.1:5000 in a browser

Scroll up and read this topic from start to finish. There's not that many messages.

[stoic shell]

And utilizing it from a different local pc uses simple logic, so that's nice. Punch in the server pc ip with :5000 and bam, it's on the dashboard. Beautiful!

[gaunt hazel]

Thanks Shynd

[wise thistle]

You tend to your family. I remember those days and they pass so quickly. All of my love to you and yours.

[gaunt hazel]

What day it is, is a full on blur
Getting on average ~2hrs of sleep

[patent lance]

You don’t miss those newborn days until you miss those newborn days

[gaunt hazel]

smoll sneak peaks on things I try to work on between baby and trying to get sleep
among just fixing issues, I apologise for being a noob

[gaunt hazel]

Remotely view the server logs through the webapp

• Allows downloading single or multi-zip
• Only checking for files actually called server-*.log and not ones archived/compressed

-# Now back to baby, will be a good while before I can release anything sorry

[gaunt hazel]

More small goodies

• Filtering by levels, context or search in Manager logs
• SPT Logs gets simple search bar
• Search box highlights text
• Context (Manager Logs) lets ya search by specific context, from screenshot in this scenario would be either; Program or ServerProcessM

[gaunt hazel]

I require input from the wise folks here (yes, all of you are wise now)

• Do people care about seeing the PID of the server?
• Is the stacked method fine or would side-by-side be more appealing?
• Anything else specific to the Server itself that would be "nice to have" on the card here?

Thinking of just having a quick-link to Server logs but not sure

[gaunt hazel]

Tweaked a bit, questions from above remain

[patent lance]

Looks good! I don’t even know what the PID is so I assume I personally don’t need it? lol.
Stacked seems fine.
Not thinking of top of my head of needing other features currently. Maybe being able to see latency to those connected?

[gaunt hazel]

🤔 Not sure if I can poke to see players latency but I haven't looked so will see.

PID is Process Identifier

[patent lance]

I only wonder because a lot of times my friends will complain something’s wrong and I’m playing fine (adjacent to server) so I have to explain the concept of lag&latency 😤 like… stop saying I don’t know how to run the server lol

[gaunt hazel]

Plis fix server, kthx

But yeah I feel ya 😅

[patent lance]

Literally… yeah buddy, sorry your WiFi sucks? Have you tried a $10 snaky boi? Haha

[gaunt hazel]

I've bullied my friends to go wired long ago

[patent lance]

I’ve got a friend who swears he upgraded his internet.. bought the higher package… okay cool.. you still can’t host all our multiplayer games on your WiFi that DC’s every 30 minutes 🤣

[patent lance]

so idk what is going on but i DL'd this and was planning to use the old build and when i start the .exe my pc just quickly pops the window up and then disappears? nothing happens

[wise thistle]

#1401178933302399007 message do this and you'll be able to see the error displayed

that error will probably be because you didn't edit your config file correctly, like this dude #1401178933302399007 message, which i answered just afterward: #1401178933302399007 message you need to point it to your spt install folder with \\ in the file path

[patent lance]

Thankyou. Sorry. Was in a hurry earlier and didn’t read. Can’t get my manager to send discord notifications though… says target machine is refusing

[wise thistle]

sounds to me like the URL is incorrect. no idea.

[patent lance]

i cant for the life of me get that to work. Created a new discord and all. Won't send, GIves me error 401

am i supposed to set something up through a bot or do a github?

[gaunt hazel]

We hook or bot mode

[patent lance]

webhooks

[gaunt hazel]

If webhook, just provide the full URL in config

If bot, need to create one with read/write perms

[gaunt hazel]

Mode in config is set to webhook? 👀

[patent lance]

son of a.....

[gaunt hazel]

Lmao

😂 😂 😂 ❤️

[patent lance]

im sorry.... lol

[gaunt hazel]

Don't be 🙏

[patent lance]

working great! How's the baby? Sleeping a full 3 hours? lol

[gaunt hazel]

Only reason I'm up now is cuz he woke me up for food 😂😂

4am here so

But we get a full nights sleep all of us on average, just sometimes he wakes up like this cuz glutton

[patent lance]

for sure, eat, sleep, poop. the cycle of life lol

[hearty ermine]

question

i configged it but it just opens then closes

nothing happens

[gaunt hazel]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and ya missed the small bit of changing the name of the file to config.jsonc and not config.template.jsonc

#1401178933302399007 message

[hearty ermine]

yep

exactly what i missed

thank you

[gaunt hazel]

[hearty ermine]

mmm, still did the same thing

ill double check config

[gaunt hazel]

path to SPT.Server.exe correct?

[hearty ermine]

C:\SPT\SPT.Server.exe

[gaunt hazel]

Double slashes

[hearty ermine]

yep

makes sense

there we goooo

[gaunt hazel]

I'm working on making it easier and more foolproof
Baby just takes time

[hearty ermine]

yea the double slash thing is new to me

[patent lance]

Don’t rush back to this. We can wait 😁

[gaunt hazel]

[patent lance]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-bateman-smile-ooooo-yeah-gif-14408539

[gaunt hazel]

cant fall back asleep after baby woke me up sooo

[stoic shell]

been using this for about a month now and it's working like a charm (once I figured out the install with y'alls help xD)

[stoic shell]

Looking forward (patiently cuz babeh) to future headless support! ^_^

[gaunt hazel]

Fika 4.0 out 👀 which means WebApp for it too (soon™ )

This little project of mine is possibly redundant now, but I'll personally still be working on it whenever I do have time regardless, but the Fika one is probably (Deffo) going to be a more polished experience than this 😅

[teal glen]

I know you are super busy with a newborn and such, and this probably isn't the place to aske, but I was wondering if there was a way to implement the discord integration aspects of this project without the management side of things. I have a few people that play on a server I host and it would be awesome to see who was online and doing what. I have zero idea where to start or what to do, but if anyone here can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

[gaunt hazel]

Can use it as is, just set it up and you don't necessarily have to use the management options available, but otherwise if you want it's not too difficult to set up a discord integration that just checks player state in the server and sends it to discord.

Something might even exist already on the spt forge, not checked myself

[teal glen]

I was under the impression that this was incompatible with 4.0. Unless I'm thick, that is.

[gaunt hazel]

I can't confirm if it would work with 4.0 or not, I don't inherently have anything that would stop it, it's more if fika no longer has the events I've used to check for players 😅

[teal glen]

Thank you for responding, btw. I think it complains about being unable to set a console mode. I think shynd mentioned the console masking isn't supported in 4.0. I did some looking and all the integration stuff looks like 3.11 or older. It isn't a big deal. I was looking into setting something up to poll the fika api, but I am so new to this that I don't really know where to start. It is seeming like it actually is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

[gaunt hazel]

Nah not hard. But if console masking is not supported then yeah that would break a bit. Hoping after new year to get time to pick stuff up again

[teal glen]

I'll keep checking in. Looks like I'm off to figure this out. Thanks again and I hope you have a happy new year