Often chat messages are not caught by the RCON

[timraay]

Possible caused by the end of multipacket response being attached with the chat message (and the chat message having the wrong packet type). This was observed on Squad version b-17.0.13.23847.

e.g. packet body: b'\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00[ChatAll] this is example chat\x00\x00'.

[hippalectryon-0]

Btw also a bug on the official valve RCON implementation. This can be fixed on the official valve RCON by disabling partial responses, but I think you use a custom implementation :(

[timraay]

Can you elaborate on what you mean, perhaps with some links? Never heard of disabling partial responses.

[hippalectryon-0]

On the python RCON API, in valve/rcon.py, in _consume, disable the part that handles partial responses:

Before doing that, valve's RCON library doesn't register Squad chat messages. Since making this fix, I've been catching them all.

[timraay]

Note to self:

The longer the script is running the more apparent this issue becomes. After a restart it updates perfectly fine every 15s, whereas after several days it sometimes takes several minutes to fetch messages, or they may even be completely ignored. Likely this isn't an issue with the RCON.