News related to website changes and updates.
Released updates to MOTD Fixer SourceMod plugin and the web script. This release should fix potential database bloat (Will issue a delete command on disconnected client that reach the 2nd stage of MOTDF_ShowMOTDPanel) and running on an unsupported mod type (If an unsupported mod type is found – The plugin will load a slightly customised … Read more
Made a slight change to the web script in how it handles IP addresses. Was using ip2long that only works for IPv4 addresses and switched back to the basic string storage/comparison. If you’re updating,then make sure to re-run init.sql for the IP storage changes inside the database. Latest version can always be found here.
Over the last few weeks had quite a bit of time away from SourceMod development and doing more stuff in Web based languages. My last project was a small script for www.Vabbi.eu for looking up war scores with the Guild Wars 2 v2 API, utilising Axios for the HTTP Requests. That everyone is welcome to … Read more
This guide that will help everyone add streams from tunein.com to Radio version 2 for their game of choice, with a few pictures to help along the way. Everything in this tutorial is based around utilising FireFox Developer tools – so make sure you have that to begin with. Prerequisites: FireFox – Get the most … Read more
Got another release of radio finished, this is a small bugfix and slight change to give better user feedback based around Geo-Blocked stations. The problem with Dynamic and empty methodmaps is now fixed and added source to package Cached the console variables “sm_radio_play_type” and “sm_radio_shoutcast_custom” in OnConfigsExecuted() This avoids conflicts or crashes with the way … Read more
Going to be implementing a few more changes to the MySQL code and structure within the PHP script. Long term, This will avoid duplicate entries with stations and have a much better structure inside the database. Task will take me around 2+ weeks to implement with how the database is right now and require lots … Read more
Managed to get the updates to the ShoutCast web-end finished. It actually ended up taking slightly longer than I expected, with how problematic the ShoutCast API was being and returning 404’s for playlists URL’s that was valid. The solution I came up with was increasing the query retry delay to 10s from 3s, which appears … Read more
Currently working on a few changes to the ShoutCast downloaded playlists that hopefully everyone will like. Radio will have a new internal cVar called “sm_radio_shoutcast_playlist” that will decided which playlist to download and utilize, for now there will be 3 types: 1 = Standard genres with child genres – Version right now 2 = Genres … Read more
Nginx should be working fine for http and https now. The error returning was “The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port” which was caused from having the 80 and 443 ports in the same server block, under the Nginx config. Had to assign the standard HTTP and HTTPS (SSL) ports to a seperate … Read more
Going to push another update later today for the website side of the player. This should hopefully fix all mount points, especially related to Icecast 2 streams (Didn’t need to have the “/;” appended to the stream). Only took a very simple piece of code, but would love any feedback for stations that don’t work … Read more