Python Half-Life Bridge

• HLBridge is a bot that forwards player messages from Telegram to the Half-life or CS16 servers and vice versa.

Building server and setting it up

First you need to build metamod plugin, depending on your platform, from source HLBridge_metamod

After building hlbridge_mm_i386.so or hlbridge_mm_i386.dll, move it to gamedir/dlls/addons/metamod

After that you need to edit gamedir/dlls/addons/metamod/plugins.ini and enable hlbridge_mm_i386.so or hlbridge_mm_i386.dll.

After that you need to edit server.cfg and add commands.

Attention, please specify different argument in connectionless_args and in rcon_password, do not write it the same as in the example.

Example:

logaddress 127.0.0.1 27000
rcon_password "password"
allow_connectionless 1
connectionless_args "chatsendmsg"

At this stage we have finished setting up the Server, you can start the server.

configuration of Telegram bot

Create a bot via @BotFather

Create Telegram api id and hash, you can find out how to do this on the Internet.

Configure config.yml

Example:

api_id: 1234567890
api_hash: "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm",
bot_token: "1234567890:qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm"
workers: 24

Create venv and install requirements

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running a HLBridge

Example:

python3 -m hlbridge

Initial setup

After starting the bot, you need to invite it to a chat that has topics enabled. Then enter the command /setup in any topic. The bot will save the chat_id and topic_id to the database, and from now on, every time the bot starts, it will send a startup notification there.

• Important: the first time you use /setup, you will be set as the owner of the bot.

Next, you need to use /add_server and follow the instructions to add your game servers. To get the full list of available commands, use /help.