Fall back to parsing the log for the player count

[opello]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Feature description

A rust implementation of a tool created to track currently connected users was posted in the Enshrouded Discord:
https://github.com/jcjolley/enshrouded-player-count

It seems like either using this directly (if sufficient) or adopting the parsing logic put into it to track the player count locally instead of querying the Steam API might be nicer to avoid updating while players are connected.

As I was writing this up it occurred to me that it might be simpler to query the server directly (using the query port) but I haven't looked for an implementation of that yet.

[cp-fabian-pittroff]

Hey, thanks for the request. I could try to adopt it with my bash scripts. But I don't know how robust the logic is. It reads the service logs to count every join and exit of a user.

I hoped we get some kind of rcon, so I could get the information strait from that and also do server messaging, to alert users of an upcoming restart.

But I will try fiddling around with that and report back.

[opello]

Thanks for the image, it's been working quite well for me.

Using python-a2s and a simple python -c 'import a2s; print(len(a2s.players(("ip",port))));' seems to work. I tried in a python container alongside the enshrouded-server container, but I expect the "ip" being "127.0.0.1" would work too, if not SERVER_IP.

[cp-fabian-pittroff]

Thanks for the suggestion. I added the python-a2s script to check for connected players locally. I removed the STEAM_* env vars and added a UPDATE_CHECK_PLAYERS env to enable the check or not.

I'll test it a bit further and merge it afterwards.

[cp-fabian-pittroff]

@opello If you want you can check this feature with the latest dev or dev-proton image.

[opello]

Thanks! I updated and will do a better test later, but it seems to work:

# PYTHONPATH=/home/enshrouded/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages python3 -c 'import a2s; print(len(a2s.players(("127.0.0.1",15637))));'
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[cp-fabian-pittroff]

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