Is there a way to access the chat window (or functions of) from Export.lua

[Jabbers_]

So the scenario is this. I stream and play in VR, and because of this I cannot see my twitch chat while playing. I've tried what others do and setup Text-To-Speech, but honestly this is really bad when you have Simple Radio + Team Speak + Twitch Chat all going at the same time. It turns into a real mess and I end up having to take the headset off too look at chat anyway.

 

This lead me to the idea of making a mod that will allow me to pump twitch chat to my DCS chat window. Now, I have pretty much everything working. Export creates a udp client that listens to localhost and receives information, deserializes and currently just writes it to a file. I've written a separate application that connects to twitch chat and sends the data via udp to DCS. Currently this is all working, and working well. My only huge hurdle is getting the information to the UI some how.

 

My goal is to open source this and provide it to everyone not just myself. It's really aggravating as a streamer to not be able to interact with my viewers. And as a viewer is just a frustrating watching this happen to someone im watching. So if anyone has any ideas im all ears, or if you have a solution already please let me know!

[Weltensegler]

This sounds like a tool many VR users would want or reuse similar.

Since ED is maintaining VR support for this sim I hope they can give you some answers. Fly safe!

[Jabbers_]

OK, maybe this needs another avenue of attack. So currently, I use the standard Export.lua hook LuaExportAfterNextFrame to poll the udp port for data sent from the twitch client. Maybe I'm going about this all wrong since it seems impossible to access a way to show this information in chat. After some though it would seem that I could just include this same code in mul_chat.lua to achieve the same result, and have access to multiplayer chat. However, I'm stuck trying to find a way to poll the udp connection since LuaExportAfterNextFrame doesnt exist. I looked into timer.scheduleFunction but this doesnt seem to exist, or I am doing something wrong.

 

So the question now is, how do I schedule a callback to poll the udp connection? Obviously a while loop would be ineffective as it would be blocking.

[Jabbers_]

I got this working, will post my solution and release the mod soon. Need to finish testing, and make sure its solid first, but so far so good.

[Jabbers_]

Here is an image of this working if anyone wants to see

[Looney]

Nice! Looking forward to the mod!

[Nero.ger]

very nice, also interested in the final product. But more because i want to see how you code it :)

[Jabbers_]

very nice, also interested in the final product. But more because i want to see how you code it :)

 

I started pushing some stuff to github, mostly to back it up, its no where near a "working release" I'll get to that tonight or this weekend. Have to go through and make it configurable on the 3rd party app code because its all hard coded to my stuff (oath, username, etc). You can see how I did the dcs side of things though

 

https://github.com/jeffboulanger/twitch2dcs