Exporting Time data to a TCP Socket

[DigitalEngine]

For whomever may be interested.

This is a Export.lua for the sole purpose of exporting the dcs mission (accumulated) time to a port/socket in one second intervals, as a whole number value.

 

function LuaExportStart()

package.path = package.path..";"..lfs.currentdir().."/LuaSocket/?.lua"
package.cpath = package.cpath..";"..lfs.currentdir().."/LuaSocket/?.dll"

socket = require("socket")
IPAddress = "127.0.0.1"
Port = 31090

MySocket = socket.try(socket.connect(IPAddress, Port))
MySocket:setoption("tcp-nodelay",true)
end

function LuaExportBeforeNextFrame()
end

function LuaExportAfterNextFrame()

end

function LuaExportActivityNextEvent(t)

local tNext = t
local TIME = LoGetModelTime()
-- "%.0f" displays the data in whole seconds, with no decimals.
socket.try(MySocket:send(string.format("Time: %.0f \n",TIME)))
-- The below writes the data in one second intervals.
tNext = tNext + 1
return tNext

end

function LuaExportStop()

if MySocket then
socket.try(MySocket:send("exit"))
MySocket:close()
end
end

 

Thanks to @JaBoG32_Dirty, his YouTube Channel "DCS Flighttraining", and his github repository "DCS-Export-Server-Simple".

JaBo has a simple TCP DCS viewer with with which you can view the data in real time.

 

Next step, if someone will please help me, is I want to import the data onto a html webpage file, use AJAX, and then format it into a 24hour time format. For example, if the mission starts at 0600, add the accumulated mission (120 seconds) time and display it on the html page as 06:02. Could anyone help me with such a JavaScript code?

 

I've done something similar using data wrote to a .txt file, shown as a static example here, and here.

[BlaizzMC]

Hey,

I would be interested in the solution if you found one !

Cheers