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Right, I understand that. I'm not running on port 80 though (that would be a terrible idea!) and I've got mostly GET for the time being, with POST being used for a few requests. Plus the application design means it's designed to be running behind a NAT or similar, so the computer shouldn't even be directly routable. I'm considering adding websockets as an option for other things, but for now, since the actions are all user-initiated, it works fine. My other issue with websockets is that they've got an obnoxious tendency to disconnect and not reconnect easily, at least IME. Honestly, I wish there was a better way to do this than just opening a webserver on the computer. It's gonna be tough to teach people how to find their IP address, and there are all sorts of other difficulties about opening ports. But there's no easy to access network discovery protocol that I could find that would work in this situation...

Well, websockets go over HTTP AFAIK, so the overhead would be about the same... There is a fair bit of overhead, but I'm intentionally limiting what it's doing. I'm also using the most lightweight lib I could find to run the "server". It doesn't seem to affect anything ingame, even when I iterate over all peds/vehicles searching for a name.

I need a toughbook for programming radios, since they're one of the few laptops with modern-ish specs that come with an RS232/DB9 serial port. Stupid mobile radios are picky and won't even accept a USB-serial cable.

Very soon. Probably within a week or so, if nothing goes wrong.

I actually did think about using it for that - there's really no reason that wouldn't work, although the "server" would probably be something run by the clan. I may look into making a standalone server for precisely that purpose at some point.

Yeah, mine is a spare computer I use to program radios (hence the radio-related things on the desktop :P) but I figured why not use my toughbook to do the database searches? Development is going swimmingly, I've actually gotten a chance to refactor some of my...... less than ideal code I wrote at the start :) I may be releasing it sooner than I anticipated though - keep an eye out!

That's true, but it's more convenient to me to have it on another screen entirely. If you've got a random computer lying around or something, it's really no harm to run it. Plus I'm planning on having more functionality than just the records check. That's just version 1.0!

Hello LSPDFR community! Today I'm announcing a new plugin/application that I'm hoping to release in the next few weeks. This is the San Andreas Record Data Access System - SARDAS for short. It's a Windows application you can run on a computer in real-life that will allow full access to ped/vehicle records, IN GAME! Here are some screenshots of it in action: Login screen The database screen: The database, after searching for a vehicle: It automatically searches for the owner of a vehicle, much like Computer+ does with its vehicle records search. In-game at launch: The client app running on my Toughbook, while LSPDFR runs on my main PC! This plugin will require a little bit of technical skill to run - namely, you'll need to be able to open the required ports in the firewall and figure out the IP address of your "server" machine. I'm also planning on integrating other mods, and additional features, similar to the callout management of Computer+. In the future, I'd like to add the ability for mods to create windows and notifications on the client computer, making it truly act like a police "MDT". I'll keep this thread updated as I progress, and I'll try to add what features I can. Thanks for reading, and stay safe out there! I've now released a RC (Release Candidate) version of the app here: It's still in early stages, and may be buggy - don't blame me if it crashes your game!

FWIW, I had lag until I overclocked my i7 to 4.9 ghz. It's just a thing that happens when you install a lot of callouts.

Use OpenIV. That model is pretty complex, but you can toggle the sirens using OpenIV to figure out which is which. EDIT: So 65535 is definitely too big. Trying 32767... EDIT EDIT: So, the limit on the max sirensettings values is very strange. It's somewhere between 10000 and 32767. So anything less than 10000 should work without problems.