Hmm, I was planning on using rcon as a "file has been saved" notification, so I'd be using rcon either way. I did notice I couldn't use async when calling from the c# side, though I thought that was just the rcon library I was using - as rcon is supposed to reply with a message ID.
I'll look into other ways of doing it, but maybe I just have the limit of "this mod must be the only rcon mod installed".