Telemetry Mod

by 351n

WIP & AI Slop & Made for run with friends. It works but requires some specific knowleage. Working on making it more robust, stable and straightforward to use. Runtime-only mod that logs telemetry events (join/leave/afk/research/death) to script-output/telemetry.jsonl (one JSON object per line).

Utilities
12 days ago
2.0
18

FAQ

AI slop?
Totally. I probably wrote like three lines of code myself.

Does it work?
Mostly, yes. It’s my first time using Lua and the Factorio API, so a lot of things are probably sub-optimal — and I may not even realize it yet.

What does it do?
It logs telemetry events to a JSONL file.

What is it for?
Depends on your needs. I personally used it to send Discord notifications — I’m lazy and didn’t want to manually message friends every time I joined the server.

Where’s the rest?
I’ll post the repo soon, including a Node.js app and/or an alternative backend that can run on an ESP to send notifications.

Why not use RCON?
The hosting provider I use doesn’t allow RCON connections on headless servers, so I had to find a workaround.

Single-player friendly?
Maybe. I tested it in single-player and didn’t notice any issues, but no guarantees.