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Funbit / ets2-telemetry-server

ETS2/ATS Telemetry Web Server + Mobile Dashboard
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Why require activating before hand? #62

Closed sislamoglu closed 9 years ago

sislamoglu commented 9 years ago

There is another plugin here..

It does not require you to activate it to send data to its Android client... Why this one requires extra tool to activate server?

Can't it be automatic when plugin activated with game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhL7TDarAME&feature=youtu.be

http://forum.wotr.pl/showthread.php?tid=8961

Funbit commented 9 years ago

Technically, it is possible to combine telemetry plugin and web server into a single DLL. But:

  1. The server solution is written in C# based on .NET Framework stack. It is not easy to join unmanaged and managed DLLs, which would require to load .NET Framework into game's process. Moreover, the web server would make a direct impact on the game and I wanted to avoid that (for example, if, by any chance, the server crashes - the game will be crashed as well).
  2. The server has its own UI. If I move web server handling code into telemetry plugin itself it raises a question about UI.
  3. The current way is much easier to manage, because server can be put (and moved) in any folder. It also can be easily turned off just by closing the server process.
  4. As you can see in the video you provided - there are many manual copy/paste steps to setup everything and average users are not able to perform that without making errors (trust me on that). The server provides automated setup for them.