ATS/ETS2 Local Radio

[Koen]

@Micha_UK
It adds an entry to your firewall when the program starts, allowing you to access ETS2 Local Radio (so yourip:8330), and it consequently removes that entry again when the program exits. That requires administrator rights.
It copies the plugin to your ETS2/ATS installation folder, and depending on where that is located, that requires administrator rights.
Similar programs, such as ETS2 Telemetry Server, also require admin rights (only they make a permanent firewall entry, so they only request it at first start).
(There may be a couple of other things I have forgotten that need administrator rights, but you can probably see that there is a reason for it.)

You can check the source code on https://github.com/Koenvh1/ets2-local-radio, and for the individual dependencies on their respective websites:
- https://github.com/gmamaladze/globalmousekeyhook
- https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json
- https://github.com/SlimDX/slimdx
- https://github.com/vvvv/SVG
- https://github.com/EasyHook/EasyHook
- https://github.com/sharpdx/SharpDX

Should give you some nice bedtime reading

@joschac2 Try https://github.com/Koenvh1/ets2-local-r ... emetry.dll

@ThunderSky Make a station a favourite, and it will always start playing that station when you enter a country (or region)

[Micha_UK]

Thank you for the additional information, much appreciated

Personally would prefer it to request admin permissions only on install/uninstall and make the changes permanent rather than requiring admin every startup. Would also MUCH prefer it to ask whether or not to modify firewall rules (ie, have it as a config option) - I, and I suspect the majority of users, only use it locally so there should be no need to open a firewall hole. But yes, I appreciate that would add complexity, especially for less technical users.

As for the dependencies, using Git submodules instead of precompiled binaries is the usual way of including OSS libraries. But again, thanks for listing their origins here.

[Koen]

There are plenty of things that could be changed, and feel free to do so, it's open source after all.
If I were to recreate it from scratch, I would do plenty of things differently.
However, it currently does what I wanted it to do, so I am not going to be making any significant changes to it.
There is even a section in the readme about that: https://github.com/Koenvh1/ets2-local-r ... uch-a-mess

Initially, this project was a skin for ETS2 Telemetry Server. Later it got its own server.
That, combined with the fact that I never intended this project to become this large, is why the code is shoddy in some places.
I have started refactoring the code, but I honestly can't really be bothered to finish that. Maybe some other time.

So whilst I agree in principle with your suggestions, I am not going to do anything with them at this point of time.

[Qrusher14242]

So far the new v3 beta works great in ATS. No more screen freezing.

i was curious about the beta though, it seems the cities and stations in stations are in the cloud now, which is great, but what does that mean for custom maps? Before we had to enable, for example, Canadream i believe or Russian Open Spaces. Do we not have to do that since its in the cloud? Was just wondering.

[Koen]

@Qrusher14242 Correct (though Canadream is available by default). I am still looking into how I am going to combine the two, but I am not sure about that. I might add a custom_cities.js file, just like there is a custom_stations.js file (which also doesn't work yet in 3.0.0)

[Asuano]

In Update 3.0 there is this swoosh already when due 4/5 lines, so normaly, you cant drive more than a minute, and then you have to change the station in ATS

[Koen]

@Asuano What do you mean with "swoosh"? If you mean the white noise: You can change this in v2.5.0, not yet in v3.0.0; though I do plan on readding that, I'm just not sure how.

[Asuano]

Yes I mean the white noise. Where do I can change it in 2.5? Didn't see that option. Would be really nice, if we could also change it in V3.

[Koen]

@Asuano There are some settings in the config.js

[Whiskeyomega]

On 3.0 Beta
Is it meant to be switching stations as soon as it loses one bar by the looks of it ? does config.js not do anything anymore as its not in the download for the build?