PLAYER_EVENT_NOTIFICATIONS is not working

[ericjgoebel]

I don't see any messages for arrival or leaving for any players when setting this flag to 1 (and having a webhook url).

I waited 11 minutes after logging in and did not see any messages in my discord. What is the frequency that these messages are supposed to be sent?

I actually have a scrappy version of this set up myself using powershell which basically reads the last 400 lines in the log every 30 seconds and if it finds a match for a player logging in it sends the player name with the local timestamp. It saves that timestamp and only reads lines in the next pass over the log that are newer than that timestamp as to not resend information.

Also, I recommend adding this to the example on the readme that is "Everything but the kitchen sink"

My docker compose file

version: "3"
services:
  valheim:
    image: mbround18/valheim:latest
    stop_signal: SIGINT
    ports:
      - "2456:2456/udp"
      - "2457:2457/udp"
      - "2458:2458/udp"
    environment:
      PORT: 2456
      NAME: "Tacticals Realm"
      WORLD: "mysecretworldname"
      PASSWORD: "mysecretpassword"
      TZ: "America/New_York"
      PUBLIC: 1
      AUTO_UPDATE: 1
      AUTO_UPDATE_SCHEDULE: "*/15 * * * *"
      AUTO_UPDATE_PAUSE_WITH_PLAYERS: 1
      AUTO_BACKUP: 1
      AUTO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE: "0 */1 * * *"
      AUTO_BACKUP_REMOVE_OLD: 1
      AUTO_BACKUP_DAYS_TO_LIVE: 3
      AUTO_BACKUP_ON_UPDATE: 1
      AUTO_BACKUP_ON_SHUTDOWN: 1
      AUTO_BACKUP_PAUSE_WITH_NO_PLAYERS: 0
      SCHEDULED_RESTART: 1
      SCHEDULED_RESTART_SCHEDULE: "30 4 * * *"
      UPDATE_ON_STARTUP: 1
      PLAYER_EVENT_NOTIFICATIONS: 1
      WEBHOOK_URL: https://discord.com/api/webhooks/mysecretwebhook
    volumes:
      - "S:\\Games\\Docker\\TacticalsRealm\\valheim\\saves:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim"
      - "S:\\Games\\Docker\\TacticalsRealm\\valheim\\server:/home/steam/valheim"
      - "S:\\Games\\Docker\\TacticalsRealm\\valheim\\backups:/home/steam/backups"

[ericjgoebel]

I left this setting true for a couple days and it randomly works. Sometimes the same player will be counted as joining twice and players will leave, and no notification is sent.

Screenshot from my discord illustrates a couple examples (player names partially redacted and color coded for ease of reading)

[mbround18]

@ericjgoebel i greatly appreciate you giving this a test whirl, I'll cache these logs in a gist and will work on weeding out the root cause. From my first glance it looks roughly like it's catching lines it shouldn't be. Which should be just a regex fix.

However, i will have to tackle this in a few weeks. I'm in another country for a wedding atm. I should be able to do a bit of debugging on my laptop in the first week of the new year but if not I should be able to dive back in around the 18th or so of Jan

[mbround18]

Okay I am back stateside :) jumping back into this!

[ericjgoebel]

Welcome back, no rush here. Let me know if there is more info I can provide.

Also, I noticed that on the version I am running, all kinds of notifications can just stop appearing after a few days and necessitates a restart (compose down/compose up) to get things back up and running. I don't want to muddy the waters of this ticket but it might be good to keep your eyes peeled while debugging for something that might be contributing to that. It will otherwise, make confirming the player notifications feature is working more difficult,

[mbround18]

Huh thats weird, do you get an error message in the logs? or it just stops logging?

[ericjgoebel]

The game server continues to run, the logs continue to show in the main server log but all webhook related notifications just stop. I don't see anything in the logs but I also might not be looking in the right place.