arkclusterchat

Cluster chat application for Ark Survival Evolved

arkclusterchat is a small program which connects to multiple gameservers of Ark Survival Evolved using the RCON protocol. It reads the chat messages on each server, and forwards this message to the other servers. This way, "cluter chat" support is achieved. The messages send by arkclusterchat will be shown as server messages (yellow), and have a prefix with the server title for each message.

History

Version 1.0 - released august 6th 2017.

• Initial release

Version 1.1 - released january 27th 2018.

• Added option to show/suppress admin commands (--show-admin-cmd)

Compilation

Linux/MacOS is supported, Windows is not supported. Simply clone this repository and run make -s to compile the program.

steam@blashyrkh:~/clusterchat$ git clone https://github.com/patrickjane/arkclusterchat.git .
Cloning into '.'...
remote: Counting objects: 30, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23/23), done.
remote: Total 30 (delta 6), reused 23 (delta 6), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (30/30), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
steam@blashyrkh:~/clusterchat$ make -s
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Making arkclusterchat ...
Compile main ...
Compile channel ...
Compile thread ...
Compile rconthread ...
Compile clusterchat ...
Compile ini ...
Linking  ...

You will find a binary named arkclusterchat in the same folder.

Binary downloads

I have never created binary releases, but it should work, in case you don't want to download the source and compile the tool:

• Version 1.1 - http://filehorst.de/d/cAayrquG (Linux 64bit binary, libstdc++.6)
• Version 1.1 - http://filehorst.de/d/ccyvFxwG (MacOS)

Usage

arkclusterchat needs RCON support on your server, but it does not need to run on the server itself. Actually, it can run just anywhere as long as you have network access to your server's RCON port. The program needs the connection parameters for each host you want to connect to, which can be either given via the -s command line options, or stored in a separate configuration file, which is used using the -c command line option.

Wildfire:clusterchat s710$ ./arkclusterchat -h
ClusterChat - Ark cross server chat application version 1.1
Copyright (c) 2017 by s710
GitHub: https://github.com/patrickjane/arkclusterchat

Usage:
   $ arkclusterchat [OPTIONS]
Options:
      -s [SERVER]       Add servers in the format: [TITLE]:[RCONPASSWORD]@[HOST]:[RCONPORT].
                        For example '-s TheIsland:greatPassw0rd@myhost:32330'.
                        Option can be repeated to set multiple servers. Title will be printed in
                        game chat as well as application log. Make sure to use your server RCON port.'

      -c [FILE]         Path to ini configuration file with server descriptions (as alternative to -s option).

      --verbose         Print all messages sent/received (default: disabled).
      --debug           Send chat messages ONLY to the server they have been received on (default: disabled).
      --show-admin-cmd  Also show any admin commands sent through console (default: disabled).

Config file

The configuration file should have the following contents PER SERVER:

 [(TITLE)]    
 host = (HOSTNAME)    
 port = (RCONPORT)    
 password = (RCONPASSWORD)    

Example:

 [TheIsland]    
 host = 123.123.123.123    
 port = 32330    
 password = greatPassw0rd    

 [ScorchedEarth]    
 host = some.greathost.com    
 port = 32331    
 password = "greatPassw0rdT00"    

Notes:

• Server titles must not contain spaces or special characters.
• Server titles in the configuration file must be UNIQUE.

Log output

Normal log output of the program should look smiliar to this:

Wildfire:clusterchat s710$ ./arkclusterchat -c test.ini --verbose
ClusterChat - Ark cross server chat application version 1.1
Copyright (c) 2017 by s710
GitHub: https://github.com/patrickjane/arkclusterchat
Main: Using configuration file 'test.ini'
Main: Using servers:
Main:  - ScorchedEarth@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32330
Main:  - TheCenter@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32331
Main:  - TheIsland@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32332
Main:  - Ragnarok@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32333
Main: Starting (show admin cmd: 0, debug: 0, verbose: 1).
[ScorchedEarth] Connected to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32330
[TheCenter] Connected to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32331
[TheIsland] Connected to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32332
[Ragnarok] Connected to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:32333

^[^C[SIG Handler] Got signal: Interrupt: 2
[SIG Handler] Exiting ...
Main: Exiting.
ClusterChat: Stopping worker threads ...
[ScorchedEarth] Shutting down
[TheCenter] Shutting down
[TheIsland] Shutting down
[Ragnarok] Shutting down